Soler is 9-for-25 (.360) since coming off the 15-day disabled list on August 5.
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Jason Hammel fired seven innings of two-hit, scoreless ball to up his mark to 13-and-5.
That’s started an impressive run for Jorge. Moss blew it open in the seventh with a three-run homer off Tony Sipp. The Cubs were reportedly looking for a bat at the trading deadline. They pull for one another. Lester is 2-2 with a 3.06 ERA in five starts against the Brewers and gave up four runs in four innings in a no-decision in the lone meeting this season.
Soler’s homer on a 2-2 pitch was a convincing smash that landed just under the videoboard atop of the left-center field stands.
In seven innings of work, the 33-year-old right-hander held Milwaukee to just two hits while issuing three walks, and striking out seven. He retired 15 of the first 16 batters. The Milwaukee Brewers have an ERA of 4.26 and have lost seven straight games when allowing more than three runs.
Rizzo wowed the fans when the first baseman jumped on the wall with both feet, leaned into the crowd and made a one-handed grab of Keon Broxton’s popup in the fifth.
“Who knows? I’m just here”, Cahill said.
I was a bit surprised that Joe Maddon let Lester come out for the seventh inning, as he had run up a fairly high pitch count in the early inning. After Thursday’s series finale the Brewers are bound for Seattle for a three-game weekend series. And right-hander Trevor Cahill, who impressed in his first start as a Cub Tuesday, is considered the piggyback long reliever to back up Montgomery in that start.
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“It was just two pitches that cost me four runs (on homers), so it’s a totally different ballgame there, especially the one in the first”, Nelson said. David Ross homered in the third, an insurance run that, in the end, the Cubs didn’t really need. Travis Wood worked a 1-2-3 ninth to wrap things up. They are 44-19 at home, a.698 win percentage that would be their best at Wrigley in 81 years. That’s a.698 winning percentage which would equate to 57 wins at home. The 2008 Cubs won 55 games at Wrigley Field, the most by any Cubs team at Wrigley. They now hold a comfortable 12.5-game lead over the St. Louis Cardinals in the N.L. Central. La Stella, 27, was hitting.295 in 51 games for the Cubs this season before the demotion.
