{"id":55800,"date":"2025-05-17T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=55800"},"modified":"2025-05-17T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:46:00","slug":"deadspin-hot-hitting-cubs-eager-to-keep-rolling-against-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=55800","title":{"rendered":"Deadspin | Hot-hitting Cubs eager to keep rolling against White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/26100591.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/26100591.jpg\" alt=\"Deadspin | Hot-hitting Cubs eager to keep rolling against White Sox\" \/>May 5, 2025; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago Cubs pitcher Matthew Boyd (16) throws against the San Francisco Giants during the first inning at Wrigley Field. Mandatory Credit: David Banks-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">The Chicago Cubs will aim to continue their dominant season at the plate on Saturday afternoon when they host the visiting Chicago White Sox in the middle game of a three-game interleague series.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">The Cubs have won three of their past four games overall and eight of the past nine against their crosstown rivals dating back to July 2023.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">The North Siders took Game 1 of the weekend series 13-3 on Friday and have now scored 257 runs in 45 games &#8212; an average of 5.7 per outing. The Cubs are the second-highest-scoring team in the majors, trailing only the Los Angeles Dodgers (259 runs).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">Spearheading the Cubs&#8217; stellar start to the season, Pete Crow-Armstong went 4-for-5 with a homer and six RBIs in the victory on Friday. The 23-year-old center fielder, who has a .282 batting average, leads the club with 12 home runs and 49 hits.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">&#8220;He&#8217;s playing at a really high level right now,&#8221; Cubs manager Craig Counsell said of Crow-Armstrong. &#8220;He&#8217;s driving the ball in the air and that obviously has led to the home runs.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">&#8220;It&#8217;s fun to see a player take another step. He&#8217;s taking a big step both offensively and defensively. He&#8217;s an impact player, and the ability that he has now to hit home runs has been a pretty big surprise, but you need surprises, and it&#8217;s been an important one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section id=\"section-7\">In front of Crow-Armstrong, Matthew Boyd (3-2, 2.78 ERA) will start for the Cubs on Saturday, looking to complete at least six innings for the fourth time in five outings.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-8\">Boyd, 34, allowed two runs in six frames on Sunday in a no-decision against the New York Mets. The Cubs lost 6-2. Boyd, a longtime American League Central rival of the White Sox as a member of the Detroit Tigers, is 4-9 with a 4.98 ERA in 19 career starts against the South Siders.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-9\">The White Sox dropped their sixth game in a row against the Cubs on Friday and their 31st of the season &#8212; second most in the majors (Rockies, 37). On a day to forget for the White Sox, the club allowed a season high in runs while committing two errors that led to five unearned tallies.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-10\">For first-year manager Will Venable &#8212; who was a coach for the Cubs from 2018-2020 &#8212; the defensive miscues didn&#8217;t come as a surprise on a windy day at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-11\">&#8220;Whether you played here or not, it&#8217;s a tough environment and you saw that all over the field on both sides,&#8221; Venable said. &#8220;That&#8217;s something that was one of our big notes coming in and you&#8217;re prepared for it and you talk about it and then you&#8217;re just kind of vulnerable to what happens out there. And it&#8217;s really tough for everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-12\">Sean Burke (2-4, 4.15 ERA) will take the mound to start for the White Sox on Saturday. The 25-year-old right-hander threw four innings of four-hit, one-run ball in a no-decision against the Miami Marlins on Sunday. The White Sox won 4-2.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-13\">Entering the 12th start of his two-year career, Burke is set to face the Cubs for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section id=\"section-14\">&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadspin | Hot-hitting Cubs eager to keep rolling against White Sox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deadspin | Hot-hitting Cubs eager to keep rolling against White Sox - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=55800\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deadspin | Hot-hitting Cubs eager to keep rolling against White Sox - 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