Ben Brown used a two-pitch combine to throw six scoreless innings, and the Chicago Cubs acquired 14 runs on 15 hits within the remaining three innings of a 16-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night time.
Michael Busch had 4 hits, together with a homer and two doubles, and three RBIs, and Carson Kelly had three hits, together with two homers, and three RBIs. Ian Happ had three hits and two runs, and Miguel Amaya capped a four-run eighth with a two-run homer to tempo a 21-hit Cubs assault.
It marked the Dodgers’ worst dwelling shutout loss in franchise historical past.
Brown (2-1) rebounded from final Sunday’s shaky four-inning, five-run begin in opposition to San Diego with a dominant 84-pitch effort through which he threw 56 four-seam fastballs (95.6-mph common) and 28 knuckle-curves (86.9 mph). Brown struck out 5 and walked none.
Busch, the previous Dodgers utility man, drove a 98-mph fastball from Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki (0-1) over the wall in left-center for a 1-0 lead within the second. He doubled and scored on Justin Turner’s RBI single for a 2-0 lead in sixth, hit an RBI single within the seventh and an RBI double within the ninth.
Sasaki went 5 innings and allowed 4 hits and one run. Middle fielder Andy Pages robbed Busch of a grand slam with a leaping catch on the high of the wall to finish the third inning.
Key second
Kelly homered off Ben Casparius to steer off the seventh, and Amaya, Busch, Dansby Swanson and Nico Hoerner drove in runs within the inning, because the Cubs turned a 2-0 lead right into a 7-0 cushion.
Key stat
The Cubs pushed their main league-leading run complete to 112, 21 greater than the second-place New York Yankees.
Up subsequent
Proper-hander Tyler Glasnow (1-0, 6.43 ERA) will begin the collection finale for the Dodgers on Sunday. Proper-hander Colin Rea (1-0, 7.36 ERA) will pitch for the Cubs.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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