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Taking advantage of a warm afternoon with the wind blowing out, the
Diamondbacks hit the second-most homers for a game in club history
to win their second straight -- in this four-game set -- after
losing a season-high six in a row.
Rojas entered without a homer in 2022 and 13 in 210 career games,
but made the most of the elements and drove in four runs.
Chicago native Alek Thomas (two hits) clubbed his third homer and
Christian Walker went deep late for his Diamondbacks-leading 10th.
Humberto Castellanos (3-1) allowed three runs, five hits and struck
out five over 5 1/3 innings. He walked one.
The Cubs also set a season high with four home runs -- solo shots
from Patrick Wisdom, Jonathan Villar (two hits), rookie Christopher
Morel (two hits) and ex-Diamondback Ildemaro Vargas. However, Kyle
Hendricks (2-4) yielded season highs of seven runs and eight hits,
while matching a career worst with four homers, over five innings as
Chicago dropped its third straight after winning four in a row.
The 11 combined home runs tied the most in Wrigley Field history.
Arizona opened with the scoring with Jake McCarthy's two-run single
in the first. The Cubs then got to Castellanos in the second when he
allowed a second homer to Wisdom in less than a week and rookie
Morel's game-tying single.
However, homers from Rojas and Peralta in the third gave Arizona the
lead for good. Though Villar made it 4-3 with his 100th career home
run in the bottom of that frame, Rojas' second homer came with a man
on in the fifth.
Two batters later, Peralta delivered an opposite-field drive to
left-center field. Thomas made it 8-3 with his own opposite-field
homer in the sixth. Rojas' blast into the right-field bleachers
opened the seventh.
Homers by Morel and Vargas in the seventh made things interesting,
but the Cubs stranded the bases loaded.
--Field Level Media
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