PHOENIX (AP) — Chicago Cubs rookie Michael Busch homered for the fifth straight game Monday night, matching a franchise record.
Busch led off the second inning with his sixth home run of the season, a 419-foot drive to center field on an 0-2 pitch from Arizona Diamondbacks starter Merrill Kelly.
Four other Cubs players have gone deep in five consecutive games — including current third baseman Christopher Morel, who did it last year. The others are Sammy Sosa and Hall of Famers Hack Wilson and Ryne Sandberg.
The 26-year-old Busch was acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers in a January trade. He was selected 31st overall by the Dodgers in the 2019 amateur draft out of North Carolina and made his major league debut last season, batting .167 with two homers and seven RBIs in 27 games for Los Angeles.
Chicago won 3-2 in 11 innings.
AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb
PGA Tour goes to Dallas for same course and new title. LIV Golf plays in Singapore
How the disappearance of two Kansas moms led to 4 arrests in Oklahoma
Travel boom sees 740 mln trips made in 3
Tara VanDerveer's longtime assistant Kate Paye takes over as new Stanford coach
Want to avoid Alzheimer's? What the experts do themselves to slash their risk of getting the memory
Kourtney Kardashian breaks silence on her 'Auntie Karen' Houghton nearly a month after her death
Former shoemaker admits he had an illegal gambling operation in his Brooklyn shop
America's electric vehicle push happened 'too soon and too fast,' warn ex
King Charles marks return to public duties wearing his famed pink T
Clint Eastwood, 93, reveals the TRUTH about his 'color
EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: French magazine uses AI photographs to predict the Royal Family's future
Cops raid the owner of a pack of vicious wolf