{"id":35847,"date":"2026-07-01T20:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/dansby-swanson-hits-2-of-chicago-cubs-5-home-runs-in-9-7-win\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:15:30","slug":"dansby-swanson-hits-2-of-chicago-cubs-5-home-runs-in-9-7-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/dansby-swanson-hits-2-of-chicago-cubs-5-home-runs-in-9-7-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Dansby Swanson hits 2 of Chicago Cubs\u2019 5 home runs in 9-7 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dansby Swanson hit two of Chicago\u2019s five home runs and the Cubs held on for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/30\/chicago-cubs-san-diego-padres-walk-off-seiya-suzuki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fourth straight victory<\/a>, 9-7 over the San Diego Padres on Tuesday at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Bregman, Michael Busch and Pete Crow-Armstrong added home runs to help the Cubs win for the 10th time in 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Tatis Jr. hit two home runs, and Manny Machado and Gavin Sheets also went deep as the Padres dropped their fourth straight after a four-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Swanson hit a solo home run off JP Sears (1-1) in the second inning to give the Cubs the lead for good, then added a two-run shot off Ron Marinaccio in the fifth. He finished 3 for 4 with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/25\/chicago-cubs-citi-field-dansby-swanson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second multi-home-run game<\/a> in less than a week \u2014 he hit two in the opening game of a doubleheader at the New York Mets on June 24.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Assad gave up Sheets\u2019 three-run home run and Tatis\u2019 second solo shot in the eighth to make it a two-run game, but the Padres couldn\u2019t get closer. Ryan Rolison got the final out for his first save.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/23\/chicago-cubs-matthew-boyd-pete-crow-armstrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Boyd<\/a> (3-1) gave up both Padres home runs in the first five innings, and surrendered three runs and eight hits while striking out two.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"y9gbYvcd28\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/30\/photos-chicago-cubs-9-san-diego-padres-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photos: Chicago Cubs 9, San Diego Padres 7<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cPhotos: Chicago Cubs 9, San Diego Padres 7\u201d \u2014 Chicago Tribune\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/30\/photos-chicago-cubs-9-san-diego-padres-7\/embed\/#?secret=KaoCijTMzI#?secret=y9gbYvcd28\" data-secret=\"y9gbYvcd28\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tatis led off and knocked Boyd\u2019s fifth pitch over the left-field bleachers onto Waveland Avenue, before the Cubs answered in the bottom of the inning when Seiya Suzuki scored on Carson Kelly\u2019s RBI single.<\/p>\n<p>Bregman came up two spots after Swanson and hit a three-run home run in the second. Machado drove in two with his 16th home run in the third. Busch hit a solo shot and Ian Happ singled to chase Sears in the fifth, and Swanson greeted Marinaccio with his 13th home run.<\/p>\n<p>Crow-Armstrong added his 18th of the year \u2014 and 11th in the month of June \u2014 an inning later.<\/p>\n<p>Sears, making his second start of the season, gave up eight hits \u2014 including the Cubs\u2019 first three home runs \u2014 and six earned runs while walking three and striking out four.<\/p>\n<p>It was 92 degrees with a 19 mph wind blowing out at the first pitch for a game in which the teams combined 26 hits and nine home runs.<\/p>\n<h4>Up next<\/h4>\n<p>San Diego\u2019s Walker Buehler (5-3, 3.81 ERA) faces fellow RHP Colin Rea (5-5, 4.80) in Wednesday afternoon\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dansby Swanson hit two of Chicago\u2019s five home runs and the Cubs held on for their fourth straight victory, 9-7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CTC-L-cubs-padres023.jpg?w=1024&h=633","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}