Hounded by HRs, Urias must wait for first win

CHICAGO — Jason Heyward and Kris Bryant smacked back-to-back home runs, the latter a towering shot high off the left-field video board, and Javier Baez drove in three runs, including a pair on his third homer of the season, to power the Cubs to a 7-2 victory on Thursday afternoon over the Dodgers and teen lefty Julio Urias at Wrigley Field.

Urias lasted five innings in his second big league start, but the 19-year-old served up three Chicago home runs. When Kyle Hendricks was 19, he was enrolled at Dartmouth College. The Cubs starter, now 26, who was coming off a complete-game victory, struck out six over eight innings.

Baez, subbing for Ben Zobrist at second base, took care of things both at the plate and in the field. Baez made a diving catch in shallow center of Carl Crawford’s liner with one out in the fifth, and in the sixth, he made a backhanded flip of a Chase Utley grounder in time to Anthony Rizzo at first.

Rizzo …

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