Dansby Swanson and Pete Crow-Armstrong homered as the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 8-6 on Wednesday at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n
Swanson launched a two-run shot during the Cubs\u2019 seven-run second inning and Crow-Armstrong added his 15th of the season in the fourth to help the Cubs take two of three games in the series.<\/p>\n
Rockies rookie Sterlin Thompson hit his first two major-league home runs. Hunter Goodman and Kyle Karros also went deep for the Rockies.<\/p>\n
Javier Assad (5-1) won his second consecutive start for the Cubs, giving up two runs and five hits in 5 2\/3 innings. Jacob Webb worked the ninth for his second save.<\/p>\n
Sean Sullivan (0-1), making his second career start, was tagged for eight runs and nine hits in four innings.<\/p>\n
Matt Shaw got the Cubs going in the second with a two-run triple and Carson Kelly followed with an RBI double to set the stage for Swanson\u2019s first home run since May 18.<\/p>\n
Seiya Suzuki added a run-scoring double and Alex Bregman hit a sacrifice fly that made it 7-0.<\/p>\n
Thompson had solo shots off Assad in the third and fifth. Goodman hit a two-run home run, his 21st this season, against Ethan Roberts in the eighth. Karros connected against Webb in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Rockies LHP Kyle Freeland (1-7, 7.98 ERA) is scheduled to face RHP Bubba Chandler (2-7, 4.76) when the Pittsburgh Pirates comes to Denver to begin a three-game series Friday night.<\/p>\n
The Cubs had not announced a starter for Friday afternoon\u2019s series opener against the visiting Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dansby Swanson and Pete Crow-Armstrong homered as the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 8-6 on Wednesday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,24,167,52,4316,733,159,4,256,35,168,738],"class_list":["post-729006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-baseball","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-javier-assad","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-rockies","tag-wrigley-field"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116770131370960432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}