Chicago-es is difficult to set up many new franchise records for the CUBs, an organization that has been around since 1876, but Craig Counsells line-up brought to work early on Friday at Wrigley Field. You have set two new Homerun benchmarks: your six Homer in the first three innings (all of Cardinals Starter Miles Mikolas) and eight for the game are both new records for the Cubs organization.
The first Baseman Michael Busch led the pack with three homes and made it the first cub. First Baseman, who hit three Homer in one game since Ernie Banks did it on June 9, 1963. Busch was also the third Cubs player, who had a 3-home game against the Cardinals on July 4 on July 4, to bring himself to his heels with Mois Alou and Hank.
“It's just really cool to win the victory and celebrate so many good days of the boys,” said Busch. “I think that was my first three-home game ever.”
Five different Cubs batters had at least one Homerun, and Pete Crow-Armstrong met several with Busch. In his 4-on-4 days on the plate, Crow-Armstrong scored in the first and third in our innerings. He was part of one of the three times that the Cubs went in a row on Friday. Crow-Armstrong and Seiya Suzuki did it in the first inning, Busch and Carson Kelly teamed up in the second, and then Dansby Swanson and Busch went in seventh back.
The three times that went the cubs in a row were the eighth, ninth and tenth time when they did it this season, and the two Homer in the seventh inning and then they broke the franchise record for home runs in a single game. The club most recently met seven in a game against the Reds on August 1, 2023. Chicago was also the fifth team, which in the same game had three separate Homerun strips (at least in a row), the first squad to complete the performance since the Dodgers in 2016.
With all the long balls on Friday, the Cubs in Team Homeruns achieved third place in the baseball (133). They only transport the Dodgers and Yankees.
“This is the best offensive where I have ever seen a part or ever seen or ever seen,” said Crow-Armstrong. “It is also particularly worthwhile after the year in which we had factors in relation to baseball stadium last year, and so on, with all the wind that blows in and everything. I love what we are doing at home.”
The offensive of Cubs was a large part of the reason why they successfully lost two of their best start jugs for significant chunks of the season. Justin Steele is traveling with the left Ellbogen tendinitis a year, which required an operation in April at the end of the season, and Shota Imanaga returned to rotation last Thursday after a two-month absence caused by a right thigh strain. And directly on the keyword, Jameson Taillon was placed on the 15-day injured list on Friday (retrospectively until July 1), with a right calf pollution, from the manager Craig Consell for “at least one month”.
The left-handed Jordan Wicks was called back from Triple-A iowa, but Counsell said that the plan was not to use Wicks instead of waum in the rotation. Taillons Square appears on Saturday and the Cubs will be Drew Pomeranz as an opener for what Consell said, a Bullpen game will be.
As a rule, injuries to key starters such as Steele, Imanaga and Taillon would bring in the chances of a team on a division title, but with the victory on Friday the Cubs 53-35 and are still convenient in front of the brewers and cardinals in the NL Central. The loan for this is at least partially due to the type of explosive crime that the Cubs showed on Friday. This season you have the second highest number of runs that were only achieved behind the Dodgers.
The offensive outbreak on Friday came after the Cubs achieved 10 innings against the Guardians on Thursday, which has an indication of how the offensive completed the plate all year round. This season you avoided extended offensive burglaries both as a team and as an individual.
“This is the sport. It's crazy about it, so you turn the site every day,” said Cunsell.
Busch is a first class example. Last season he ended the first full year of Busch in the Majors with an OPS of 0.775 in almost 500 bats. He often fell into longer cold distances on the plate, which led to almost 80 points in his stroke average from month to month in 2024. This year there are 271 bats in the belt. The Busch surgery is 0.919 and its 17 Home Runs already have the total number of 21 in the previous year.
“He is a great offensive player,” said Cotunell. “Last year there was a kind of heights and depths during the season, and this year he essentially shortened the heights and downs. And they have what they see in the first week of July. It is a good batsman that continues to get better.”