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Hunter Goodman and Kyle Karros also went deep for the Rockies.<br \/>Javier Assad (5-1) won his second consecutive start, giving up two runs and five hits in 5 2\/3 innings. Jacob Webb worked the ninth for his second save.<br \/>Sean Sullivan (0-1), making his second career start, was tagged for eight runs and nine hits in four innings.<br \/>Matt Shaw got the Cubs going in the second with a two-run triple and Carson Kelly followed with an RBI double to set the stage for Swanson\u2019s first home run since May 18.<br \/>Seiya Suzuki added a run-scoring double and Alex Bregman hit a sacrifice fly that made it 7-0.<br \/>Thompson had solo shots off Assad in the third and fifth. Goodman hit a two-run homer, his 21st this season, off Ethan Roberts in the eighth. Karros connected off Webb in the ninth.<br \/><strong>Up next<br \/><\/strong>Rockies: LHP Kyle Freeland (1-7, 7.98 ERA) is scheduled to face RHP Bubba Chandler (2-7, 4.76) when Pittsburgh comes to Denver to begin a three-game series Friday night.<br \/>Cubs: Had not announced a starter for Friday afternoon\u2019s series opener against visiting Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=2546\">Why eat junk on a camping trip? Tips and recipes for nutritious food on the trail<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO | Dansby Swanson and Pete Crow-Armstrong homered as the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 8-6 on Wednesday night.Swanson launched a two-run shot during the Cubs\u2019 seven-run second inning and Crow-Armstrong added his 15th of the season in the fourth to help Chicago take two of three games in the series.Colorado rookie Sterlin Thompson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[4173,3515,98,4174,1340,4175,3983,3985,4176],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-carson-kelly","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-javier-assad","tag-matt-shaw","tag-pete-crow-armstrong","tag-seiya-suzuki"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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