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Seiya Suzuki homered and tripled in a blowout win for the Cubs over the Astros on Saturday.
Suzuki hit a two-run shot off Ryan Gusto that gave the Cubs an 11-2 lead. He’s tripled three times in 2025, while the homer brings that total up to 22 at just-over the halfway point of the season. Suzuki doesn’t get nearly enough plaudits for how solid of a player he is, but the Cubs are well aware.
Cam Smith hit a two-run homer in a blowout loss for the Astros on Friday to the Cubs.
Smith has gone deep in both games against his former organization, with this one being a two-run blast off Colin Rea in the third inning that also scored Jake Meyers. In his rookie campaign, Smith is now slashing .281/.355/.434. That’s an impressive slash regardless, but especially for a player that was still at Florida State at this point last year.
Kyle Tucker homered, drove in three runs, scored four times and stole a base while going 4-for-5 in a 12-3 rout of the Astros on Saturday.
Other than that, it was a pretty quiet day. Tucker’s second game against his long-time employer was a spectacular one, and featured a three-run blast off a wholly ineffective Lance McCullers Jr. in the fourth to give the Astros a 7-2 lead. His stolen base is his 20th, while that roundtripper brings his season total to 17. Time will tell who ‘wins’ the trade between these two teams, but right now, the Cubs have one of the best players in the sport who is now hitting .291/.396..537 in his first (possibly final) season with the Cubs.
Colin Rea allowed two runs over five innings to pick up a win over the Cubs on Saturday.
Rea didn’t have to be great with the Cubs providing a couple of touchdowns worth of run support, and to be fair, he wasn’t. He was certainly good enough, however, and better than his seven-run start against the Mariners last weekend. The effort lowers his ERA to 4.37 on the season, and it’s probably fair to say this is a spot that Chicago will be looking to upgrade on over the coming weeks. Until then, Rea will remain a starter with a scheduled bout against the Cardinals coming Friday.
Lance McCullers was shelled for eight runs in 3 1/3 innings to pick up a loss to the Cubs on Saturday.
A rough return, to say the least. McCullers couldn’t find the strike zone early on, and walked in a run in the first. To his credit he held the Cubs scoreless over the next two innings, but he was charged for seven runs in the fourth to make this an ugly first start back off the injured list. McCullers has not pitched particularly well in 2025, and it’d be a mistake to bet on a rebound against the Dodgers on Friday.
Ronald Acuña Jr. went 1-for-3 with a run scored in a win over the Phillies on Saturday.
Acuña also walked twince. The superstar outfielder continues to impress in his return to action, and the three-reach game has him slashing .365/.486/.643, and after forging a 1.175 OPS in May, that number has dropped ever-so-slightly to 1.117. Pretty remarkable.