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Cubs power up with 3 HRs to surge past Sox
- Updated: July 28, 2016
CHICAGO — Cubs manager Joe Maddon’s doorman won’t have to take any grief from his White Sox friends, at least for one day. Kris Bryant hit a solo homer in the sixth, Javier Baez smacked a tiebreaking two-run blast in the seventh and Addison Russell added his first career grand slam in the eighth to lift the Cubs to an 8-1 victory over the White Sox on Wednesday in the third game of a four-game Interleague series.
Anthony Ranaudo gave White Sox fans something to cheer about in the fifth when he collected his first career hit and home run off Cubs starter Jason Hammel. Ranaudo threw five no-hit innings, which Bryant ended with his blast with one out in the sixth.
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Aroldis Chapman made his Cubs debut in the ninth, and his first pitch was a 101-mph strike. He struck out Jose Abreu, got Todd Frazier to ground out and struck out Avisail Garcia in a perfect inning.
Both Baez and Russell made curtain calls in front of the crowd of 41,166 at …
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