Ross won a World Series ring with the Red Sox in 2013 and hopes to cap his final season with the Cubs the same way – helping bring a title to a baseball-crazed town that hasn’t seen a World Series trophy in over 100 years. Well, thanks to the Cubs’ Jorge Soler, we have even more evidence of this as of Friday afternoon.
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“It’s kind of cool to do it at home”, Ross said.
David Ross stepped into a pitch and connected for a massive three run homer that banked off the Nuveen sign in the left field bleachers to put the Cubs on top for good.
Just another highlight you can add to the awesome season that the Cubs are having. Zobrist had reached base on a one-out double down the third-base line, extending his streak of reaching safely to 32 straight starts.Back-to-back Cubs errors helped give Philadelphia an unearned run and the equalizer in the third.Peter Bourjos led off the third with a single, picked up two bases on Cubs throwing errors and scored from third on Maikel Franco’s one-out sacrifice fly to left.Chicago jumped back ahead with a four-run fourth. The Phillies haven’t fared any better when right-hander Jerad Eickhoff is on the mound, scoring just 24 runs in his nine starts with two or fewer in five of them.
Key Moment: Hendricks had an oddly hard time retiring Freddy Galvis all day.
The last time we thought Heyward had busted out of his slump (with four hits on April 24), he immediately went 1 for his next 26. Overall his ERA dropped to 2.93 and his WHIP to 0.994, the latter of which now stands eighth-best in the National League. Eickhoff faced the Cubs last season, allowing just one run and three hits over seven innings with eight strikeouts in a no-decision.
The Ivy League-educated Cubs starter coaxed Ryan Howard into swinging at strike three with Obudel Herrera straying far off third base in the ninth. “I think he has for the most part this year”.
Reliever Pedro Strop threw one pitch before umpires stopped the game as skies opened, leading to a 56-minute rain delay.
The Phillies are coming into this game after allowing two walks during their last outing. The streak is the second longest in the majors this year, behind teammate Jackie Bradley Jr.’s 29-game run, which ended Thursday.
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Royals 7, White Sox 5: Eric Hosmer had three hits, including a home run, and drove in four runs as the Kansas City Royals rallied to beat the White Sox at Kauffman Stadium.
