Christopher Morel flipped aside his bat as the ball flew over the wall in center, punctuating another big homer for the energetic slugger. With the wind blowing out on a humid night at Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs just kept rolling along. Morel and Seiya Suzuki homered during Chicago's six-run seventh inning, and the Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants 11-8 on Tuesday for their third consecutive win.
New San Francisco Giants outfielder AJ Pollock will be sidelined for about three weeks with a strained left oblique muscle. The Giants put Pollock on their 10-day injured list Wednesday before their series finale against the Los Angeles Angels. Pollock was taken out of Tuesday's game in the third inning due to discomfort in his side.
Shohei Ohtani left the mound muttering to himself after his 97th and final pitch ended the sixth inning. On a night that drained him physically and mentally, the Angels' two-way superstar fought through fatigue to victory — and even made one more bit of baseball history. Ohtani allowed one unearned run over six innings of three-hit ball, and he earned his 10th victory of the season after Mike Moustakas hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in Los Angeles' 4-1 win over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night.
Brandon Drury had three hits, Lucas Giolito picked up his first win in an Angels' uniform and Los Angeles snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 7-5 over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night. “We played well,” said Angels manager Phil Nevin, who let out a giant exhale of relief before beginning his postgame remarks. Third inning he got a little sideways with some of the secondary stuff but dialed it back in.