Bregman Hits Three Homers as Cubs Demolish Brewers 17-3
Alex Bregman went 3-for-6 with three home runs and four RBI as the Cubs turned Monday night into a full-scale demolition, beating Milwaukee 17-3. Five different Chicago hitters went deep, and the game was effectively over before Milwaukee had even scored.
The Cubs didn't ease into this one — they blew the doors off it. Tyrone Taylor's 419-foot blast to left center in the first inning scored Seiya Suzuki, swinging the win probability from 57% to 76% on a single swing. That was the moment the tone was set. Hoerner followed with a 393-foot shot to left center, and Kelly singled home Busch to make it 4-0 before Milwaukee's starter had recorded many outs. By the second inning, Bregman had already launched his first homer — a 376-foot shot to left that scored Suzuki again — and Chicago led 6-0. The Brewers were watching a runaway train and had no brakes.
Bregman came back for more in the fourth, going deep again to left center (395 feet) to push the lead to 8-0, sandwiched around a Suzuki solo shot to center (408 feet) and a bases-loaded walk that forced home Taylor. That's 9-0 through four innings, and Milwaukee's pitching staff — Chad Patrick lasting just 1.1 innings with two walks and no outs recorded — looks like it had no answer for Chicago's lineup top to bottom. Clay Holmes, meanwhile, was quietly excellent on the other side: 6.0 innings, 5 hits, zero earned runs, 8 strikeouts. The story of the night was the offense, but Holmes made sure there was never any drama.
Milwaukee briefly threatened to make things interesting in the seventh — Cooper Pratt's 394-foot two-run homer made it 9-2 — but Chicago answered immediately and emphatically. Kelly homered to left (375 feet), Shaw went 416 feet to left for a two-run shot, and Taylor singled home Crow-Armstrong to push the lead to 13-2. When Conforto came off the bench in the eighth and launched a 400-foot three-run homer to right, the final score of 17-3 felt almost inevitable. Bregman punctuated it with his third home run of the night — 397 feet to left center — his fourth RBI of the game. Tyrone Taylor finished 4-for-6 with three RBI. Suzuki went 3-for-5 with three runs scored. This was a complete, methodical, and frankly merciless performance from a Cubs lineup that appears to be operating at a different level right now.