Christian Bethancourt hit a three-run home run in a five-run second inning Friday, and the Chicago Cubs held on for a 6-3 victory against the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field.

Michael Busch hit three home runs, Pete Crow-Armstrong connected twice and the Chicago Cubs went deep a franchise-record eight times in pounding the St. Louis Cardinals 11-3 on Friday for their fourth ...

Crow-Armstrong also went 4 for 4 and Dansby Swanson launched a two-run homer for Chicago. Seiya Suzuki and Carson Kelly added solo shots as the NL Central leaders hit six homers in the first three ...

The Cardinals have a 29-10 record in games when they have more hits than their opponents. Chicago has a 21-18 record on the road and a 46-33 record overall. The Cubs have the seventh-best team ...

Attendance for this week's Cardinals-Cubs series at Busch averaged less than 30,000, the lowest for a series in St. Louis between the two since 1995.