{"id":39208,"date":"2025-07-04T22:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39208\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T22:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:41:12","slug":"cubs-provide-holiday-fireworks-with-franchise-record-8-hrs-during-11-3-win-over-cardinals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/39208\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs provide holiday fireworks with franchise-record 8 HRs during 11-3 win over Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fourth of July fireworks started early in Chicago as the Cubs jumped on St. Louis Cardinals pitchers Miles Mikolas and John King with a franchise-record eight home runs during an 11-3<\/a> victory.<\/p>\n

Mikolas took the brunt of the damage by allowing six Cubs blasts. Seiya Suzuki and Pete Crow-Armstrong kicked off his rough day by going back-to-back in the bottom the first inning.<\/p>\n

Mikolas was not given a break in the second inning as Michael Busch and Carson Kelly went back-to-back for a 4-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Crow-Armstrong, a 2025 All-Star Game starter<\/a>, and Busch weren’t done mashing, and each hit their second blasts of the day in the bottom of the third inning to extend the Cubs lead to 7-0.<\/p>\n

The six dingers hit in the first three innings were the most in Cubs history to open a game, according to MLB’s Sarah Langs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Busch would later hit his third of the game, right after Dansby Swanson smashed his 15th of the season off reliever John King as the Cubs went up 11-1 and set a single-game franchise record with eight home runs.<\/p>\n

Mikolas had to battle through a tough afternoon. Despite his struggles, he remained in the game and went six innings, allowing eight earned runs on 10 hits. The six home runs allowed in a game set a new Cardinals franchise record and Mikolas joined 10 other players, including Tim Wakefield, R.A. Dickey and the immortal Sloppy Thurston, for the MLB record<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mikolas has been prone to the long ball since 2023, having allowed 26 in each of the past two seasons. He’s now allowed 15 through 87 1\/3 innings this year.<\/p>\n

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The Cubs’ fireworks show was ultimately two short of the all-time MLB record for a single game. That honor is held by the 1987 Toronto Blue Jays, who hit 10 during an 18-3 win<\/a> over the Baltimore Orioles. Ernie Whitt hit three and Rance Mulliniks and George Bell each sent two blasts over the Exhibition Stadium wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fourth of July fireworks started early in Chicago as the Cubs jumped on St. Louis Cardinals pitchers…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1276,5049,17625,1271,16075,28216,31319,5606,21718,1266,1277,31320,8753,62,1290,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-39208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-carson-kelly","11":"tag-chicago-cubs","12":"tag-dansby-swanson","13":"tag-franchise-record","14":"tag-john-king","15":"tag-michael-busch","16":"tag-miles-mikolas","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-pete-crow-armstrong","19":"tag-r-a-dickey","20":"tag-seiya-suzuki","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114797378593280652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}