ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Alex Bregman had a homer, two doubles and drove in two runs to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 7-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Bregman had sat out Sunday\u2019s game in Pittsburgh after going hitless in his previous three games. Against the Cardinals, he snapped out of an 0-for-12 slump with four hits and scored three runs in a game that was delayed an hour and 46 at the start due to rain.<\/p>\n
Nico Hoerner also had four hits, including a two-run homer in the ninth as the Cubs banged out 14 hits in the win.<\/p>\n
David Peterson (6-7) worked 5 2\/3 innings and earned the win. The 30-year-old left-hander, who was acquired on June 25 from the New York Mets, struck out two and allowed two runs on three hits and two walks.<\/p>\n
Matthew Liberatore (5-8) was tagged for three runs on eight hits and two walks in 3 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Chicago has won eight of its last 12 games. Since the All-Star break, the Cardinals are 3-8 and slipped to 6-14 in their last 20 games.<\/p>\n
Bregman, who signed a five-year, $175 million contract during the offseason, drove in Seiya Suzuki with a first-inning double.<\/p>\n
The Cubs added a run in the second on a single by Miguel Amaya.<\/p>\n
Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn hit a first-pitch fastball 407 feet into Big Mac Land in the left field upper deck in the second inning. The two-out homer cut Chicago\u2019s advantage to 2-1.<\/p>\n
Bregman led off the third with a first-pitch homer to right field, his 11th of the season. Over the last 11 games, Chicago has hit 12 home runs.<\/p>\n
The Cubs extended their lead to 5-1 on a two-run single by Hoerner in the fifth inning.<\/p>\n
Masyn Winn and Bryan Torres drove in runs for St. Louis in the sixth.<\/p>\n
Cubs RHP Colin Rea (7-7, 4.85) will start the second game in the series. The Cardinals have not named a starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Alex Bregman had a homer, two doubles and drove in two runs to lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[72,5,46956,138,24,4245,158,161,39640,759,3448,1553,1453,728,4,33,9500,9501,9496,9497,15187,82856,105],"class_list":["post-763467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-alex-bregman","tag-baseball","tag-bryan-torres","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-colin-rea","tag-cubs","tag-cubs-cardinals-score","tag-david-peterson","tag-jose-fermin","tag-masyn-winn","tag-matthew-liberatore","tag-miguel-amaya","tag-mlb","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40784-ap-illinois-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-seiya-suzuki"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763467","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=763467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}