Cubs hit 9 homers, set franchise record in Brewers rout
The Cubs blasted 9 home runs — 3 of them from Alex Bregman — to beat the Brewers 17-3, a franchise record for homers in a single game.
Nine homers set a franchise record
The Cubs beat the Brewers 17-3 at Wrigley Field on August 31, hitting 9 home runs in a single game for the first time in the franchise's 156-year history, per @TalkinBaseball_. Alex Bregman led the way, going 3-for-6 with 3 homers and 4 RBI, while Tyrone Taylor went 4-for-6 with a homer and 3 RBI. Michael Conforto went 1-for-1 with a homer and 3 RBI, Carson Kelly hit 3-for-5 with a homer and 2 RBI, and Seiya Suzuki also went deep in a 3-for-5 night. Clay Holmes got the win, allowing 5 hits and 0 earned runs over 6 innings with 8 strikeouts and 2 walks — 'Clay Holmes had a night,' the Cubs' own account noted.
Brewers17-3The stretch that produced it has been streaky: a 2-0 loss at Arizona on August 26 opened it, then Cincinnati took the middle two of a series at Wrigley — a 10-8 win on August 28 sandwiching a 17-5 Cubs win on August 29 — before the Reds took the finale 7-5 on August 30. The 17-3 win over Milwaukee closed the run out at 2-3 in the last 5.
Bregman's second 3-homer game this month
Barstool Sports' own account called it his second three-homer game of the month, and Barstool Gambling posted simply 'ALEX BREGMAN 3-HOMER GAME' as the night wrapped up. @StoolBaseball, watching the barrage in real time, put it plainly: 'It's all Cubs tonight.'
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Barstool Chicago worked the blowout into its usual needling of the Bears, writing that the Cubs 'lighting up Milwaukee for 17 runs' shouldn't distract from Green Bay's problems — a sign the network's Chicago desk was fully locked onto this game. The site's own writeup, 'Alex Bregman's Three Homers Power Cubs Blowout Of Brewers,' ran the same morning.
Upcoming
Matthew Boyd (8-3, 3.99 ERA) starts for the Cubs as the Cubs host the Brewers tonight at Wrigley Field, going against Robert Gasser (4-5, 4.59 ERA). Boyd's last time out was a hard-luck loss at Arizona on August 26, allowing just 1 earned run over 6 innings with 5 strikeouts. Gasser's last start, August 20 against Seattle, was rockier — 4 earned runs in just 3.2 innings.
The market favors the Cubs, and the total points to a high-scoring game, in line with a lineup that just hit 9 homers off Milwaukee two nights running. For that number to hold, Boyd needs to avoid the short outing that cost him his last start, while Gasser has already shown this month he can be hit early.