{"id":744761,"date":"2026-06-18T10:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744761\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:29:18","slug":"chicago-cubs-score-seven-runs-in-second-inning-as-they-hold-off-colorado-rockies-in-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744761\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs score seven runs in second inning as they hold off Colorado Rockies in victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Dansby Swanson<\/a> and Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> homered as the Chicago Cubs<\/a> beat the Colorado Rockies<\/a> 8-6 on Wednesday night.<\/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 Chicago take two of three games in the series.<\/p>\n

Colorado rookie Sterlin Thompson<\/a> hit his first two major league home runs. Hunter Goodman<\/a> and Kyle Karros<\/a> also went deep for the Rockies.<\/p>\n

Javier Assad<\/a> (5-1) won his second consecutive start, giving up two runs and five hits in 5 2\/3 innings. Jacob Webb<\/a> 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<\/a> got the Cubs going in the second with a two-run triple and Carson Kelly<\/a> followed with an RBI double to set the stage for Swanson\u2019s first home run since May 18.<\/p>\n

Seiya Suzuki<\/a> added a run-scoring double and Alex Bregman<\/a> 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 homer, his 21st this season, off Ethan Roberts<\/a> in the eighth. Karros connected off Webb in the ninth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Rockies: LHP Kyle Freeland<\/a> (1-7, 7.98 ERA) is scheduled to face RHP Bubba Chandler<\/a> (2-7, 4.76) when Pittsburgh comes to Denver to begin a three-game series Friday night.<\/p>\n

Cubs: Had not announced a starter for Friday afternoon\u2019s series opener against visiting Toronto.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Dansby Swanson and Pete Crow-Armstrong homered as the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 8-6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-744761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}