Cubs beat Cardinals on strength of home runs by Cody Bellinger and Miles Mastrobuoni; solid pitching from Justin Steele.
Cody Bellinger and Miles Mastrobuoni homered in a 4-run third inning, Justin Steele threw 6⅓ sharp innings and the Cubs snapped St. Louis' six-game winning streak with a 4-3 victory at Wrigley Field on Friday.
The light-hitting Mastrobuoni led off the third with a rocket into the right-field bleachers for the first home run of his brief career. The Cubs made it 2-1 on an RBI double by Mike Tauchman, then grabbed a 4-1 lead when Bellinger unloaded on a 78-mph knuckle curve from Jack Flaherty.The Cubs' bullpen ran into serious trouble in the eighth, but Mark Leiter Jr. got pinch hitter Alec Burleson to ground into a double play with the bases loaded to end the inning.
Steele, coming off a rough outing against Boston on July 16, gave up 2 runs on 6 hits while walking one and striking out nine. He got into a jam in the second after allowing 3 straight one-out singles but ended up allowing just 1 run.Swanson soon: Dansby Swanson did some running Friday, and manager David Ross hopes the shortstop is available at some point this weekend. Swanson has missed 12 games with a left heel contusion.
"Probably could have been active at like 75%," Ross said."I don't know how valuable that is if he's got to score from first or stretch a single into a double. ... He's getting closer."
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