CHICAGO — The Cubs used Tuesday night time as an opportunity to honor Javier Báez, who made his return to Wrigley Subject with the Tigers three years after being dealt away by the North Siders. The ballclub performed a stirring montage video pregame, and Báez stepped onto the sphere to wave to his outdated viewers.
Dansby Swanson, the Gold Glove shortstop who anchors the Cubs’ present core, then helped information Chicago to a 3-1 victory to open the three-game set. Swanson belted a solo homer within the sixth inning and made a handful of slick defensive performs, giving the North Siders a 3rd win by 4 video games on the homestand.
Báez — a key a part of the Cubs’ 2016 World Collection group — completed 0-for-4 with 4 strikeouts in his first recreation again on the Pleasant Confines.
Cubs righty Javier Assad picked up the win after limiting Detroit to 1 run over 5 2/3 innings, by which he struck out seven, allowed six hits and walked one. His lone setback arrived within the second inning, when Dillon Dingler delivered an RBI single to place the Cubs in a 1-0 gap.
Detroit’s lead held till the fifth, when Cody Bellinger pulled a pitch from Tigers lefty Bryan Sammons into the right-field nook for a two-run double.
Swanson then took Sammons deep with two outs within the sixth, marking the tenth residence run of the season for the Cubs’ shortstop.
