Cardinals whip Cubs 11-4
Chicago\'s Swanson injured; Cards\' Baez cools off
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Alec Burleson and Jordan Walker both homered and finished with three hits and four RBIs, and the St. Louis Cardinals pounded the Chicago Cubs 11-4 on Sunday for a second straight win at Wrigley Field.
Burleson has homered in consecutive games, boosting his total to 21 to tie his career high. Walker’s drive, his 24th, was just the second in 30 games for the All-Star right fielder and capped the Cardinals’ six-run fourth inning.
Walker doubled twice and Burleson once to help St. Louis cruise to its fifth win in seven games.
Joshua Báez, who became the first player to hit three home runs in his first three at-bats in the major leagues on Saturday, went 0 for 5 with three strikeouts.
Pete Crow-Armstrong cracked his 28th home run, a two-run shot. Miguel Amaya added a solo drive in the ninth as Chicago lost for the third time in four.
Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson left the game after hurting himself when he swung and missed on the first pitch from Cardinals starter Hunter Dobbins in the third.
Cubs manager Craig Counsell said Swanson would have an MRI on Monday, but believed the two-time Gold Glove winner had sustained a left oblique injury that will land him on the injured list.
Cubs starter Edward Cabrera (5-5) struggled after coming off the injured list for his first start since June 23, when he suffered a left hamstring/adductor strain against the Mets in New York.
Cabrera was rocked for seven runs on six hits in 3 2/3 innings. He walked three -- all in the fourth -- and all scored in the Cardinals’ six-run rally.
Báez on Saturday tagged Matthew Boyd (8-2) for all three homers. Called up from Triple-A Memphis before the game, he drove his first, a two-run shot, deep into the left-center field bleachers in the first inning.
"It's just unreal," the 23-year-old Báez said. "To not only get a hit, but three home runs? It's crazy."
WHITE SOX 7
TIGERS 5,
DETROIT (AP) -- Munetaka Murakami hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning and the Chicago White Sox rallied for a 7-5 win over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Chicago trailed 3-0 and 4-1, but scored twice in the fifth and once in the sixth to tie the game.
Tyler Holton (1-5) walked Sam Antonacci to start the seventh and Murakami followed with his 28th homer of the season to put the White Sox up 6-4.
The White Sox now lead Detroit by 5 1/2 games in the AL Central. Hagen Smith (2-0) went 1 2/3 innings for the win and Sean Newcomb pitched the final two innings for his fourth save.
Detroit left fielder Brett Callahan, making his major league debut, tripled and drove in two runs on the first pitch of his career. He’s the first Tigers hitter to triple in his first at-bat since Bill Irwin did it on May 18, 1912 against the Philadelphia Athletics.
Irwin, one of the emergency players when the team went on strike to protest Ty Cobb’s suspension, was playing his only MLB game.