{"id":965961,"date":"2026-07-29T03:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/965961\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:37:30","slug":"cubs-race-to-an-early-7-run-lead-on-the-way-to-a-10-2-win-over-the-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/965961\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs race to an early 7-run lead on the way to a 10-2 win over the Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Seiya Suzuki, Ian Happ and Nico Hoerner drove in two runs apiece and the Chicago Cubs jumped out to a seven-run lead after two innings on the way to a 10-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>Happ punctuated an 11-pitch at-bat with a two-run double to get the Cubs\u2019 scoring started. Pete Crow-Armstrong\u2019s sacrifice fly scored Michael Conforto and Suzuki added a double. Michael Busch and Hoerner added RBI singles to make it 7-0, chasing Cardinals starter Michael McGreevy. <\/p>\n<p>McGreevy (4-9) lasted 1 2\/3 innings and gave up eight hits and seven earned runs. He walked two and struck out two as the Cardinals lost their third straight game.<\/p>\n<p>Alec Burleson walked and Lars Nootbaar and Masyn Winn singled as the Cardinals loaded the bases in the fourth. Burelson scored on a sacrifice fly by Nathan Church. Winn hit a ground-rule double that plated the Cardinals\u2019 second run of the game in the ninth. <\/p>\n<p>Pedro Ram\u00edrez had an infield single that scored Hoerner in the fifth. Suzuki added an RBI single in the eighth, and Carson Kelly drove in a run with a single in the ninth as the Cubs banged out a total of 17 hits.<\/p>\n<p>Cubs starter Colin Rea (8-7) pitched six innings, allowing four hits and an earned run. He struck out two and walked two. <\/p>\n<p>Up next <\/p>\n<p>RHP Dustin May (5-7, 4.59 ERA) starts for the Cardinals on Wednesday against LHP Matthew Boyd (6-1, 3.81) .<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Seiya Suzuki, Ian Happ and Nico Hoerner drove in two runs apiece and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":965962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[21715,591,17625,1271,5440,6594,5604,1819,1818,76911,76910,264888,5606,27349,79596,9540,1266,1822,21719,215237,13715,388074,1277,8753,62,3692,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-965961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alec-burleson","tag-baseball","tag-carson-kelly","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-colin-rea","tag-dustin-may","tag-ian-happ","tag-il-state-wire","tag-illinois","tag-lars-nootbaar","tag-masyn-winn","tag-matt-boyd","tag-michael-busch","tag-michael-conforto","tag-michael-mcgreevy","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-nathan-church","tag-nico-hoerner","tag-pedro-ramrez","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117001181388762946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965961","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=965961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}