{"id":423350,"date":"2026-08-04T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423350\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T06:06:12","slug":"chicago-cubs-beat-the-slumping-los-angeles-dodgers-10-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423350\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs beat the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers 10-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seiya Suzuki, Carson Kelly and Kevin Alc\u00e1ntara each hit two-run home runs, and the Chicago Cubs handed the Los Angeles Dodgers their fourth consecutive loss with a 10-5 victory Monday night at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n

Michael Busch drove in three runs against his former team, helping the Cubs improve to 2-2 on a seven-game homestand. The Cubs also pulled within 5 1\/2 games of the National League Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers, who lost 4-3 to the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers have dropped six of eight overall after being swept by Boston over the weekend. Tarik Skubal takes the mound<\/a> Tuesday night for his first start with the NL West leaders since the ace left-hander was acquired in a trade with the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n

Tommy Edman hit a three-run home run for the Dodgers, and Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez also went deep. Justin Wrobleski (11-3) was tagged for seven runs and seven hits over 4 1\/3 innings in his first loss since May 22.<\/p>\n

Suzuki connected for his 19th home run in the first inning, driving in Pete Crow-Armstrong after a leadoff single. Alc\u00e1ntara gave the Cubs a 4-3 lead with his first career home run in the second, a two-out shot to left-center after Dansby Swanson walked. Kelly added his seventh home run in the third.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers closed to 7-5 on Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s 443-foot solo shot in the sixth. But the Cubs responded with three runs in the bottom half.<\/p>\n

Kelly walked with the bases loaded when he used the ABS system to successfully challenge a called third strike on a full-count slider from Tanner Scott. Busch then hit a two-out grounder into right field, driving in Crow-Armstrong and Suzuki.<\/p>\n

Busch also connected for his 14th home run in the fifth, delighting the crowd of 39,384 on a picturesque night at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n

Matthew Boyd (7-1) allowed five runs, four earned, and nine hits in 6 2\/3 innings for Chicago.<\/p>\n

The Cubs bolstered their pitching staff<\/a> with a series of moves ahead of Monday\u2019s trade deadline, acquiring Clay Holmes from the New York Mets and reliever Ryan Zeferjahn from the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Skubal (7-5, 2.79 ERA) went 4-1 with a 1.95 ERA in his last six starts for Detroit. Right-hander Javier Assad (6-1, 3.75) pitches for Chicago on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seiya Suzuki, Carson Kelly and Kevin Alc\u00e1ntara each hit two-run home runs, and the Chicago Cubs handed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123056,2845,168938,168937,48,52,51,47,53,50,49,91620,144116,123057,18471,108655],"class_list":["post-423350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-carson-kelly","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs-trades","tag-kevin-alcantara","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-matthew-boyd","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-tarik-skubal","tag-wrigley-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}