Chicago Cubs at Athletics

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Chicago Cubs

5-4, 5-2 Away

Final
10 - 2

Athletics

2-5, 0-3 Home

Suzuki homers twice and knocks in 5 as Cubs rout A's 10-2 for 3-game sweep

Matt Shaw added two RBI singles for the Cubs, who outscored the A’s 35-9 in the first major league series played at Sutter Health Park, the club’s planned home for the next three years before a proposed relocation to Las Vegas.

Suzuki hit an early three-run homer for the second consecutive game when he connected in the second inning off Jeffrey Springs (1-1). Suzuki went deep again leading off the fourth before adding a late RBI single.

It was Suzuki's fourth career multi-homer game. He has at least two hits in each of his last four games, with four home runs and 11 RBI during that span.

Jacob Wilson had three of the A's five hits and Brent Rooker hit a two-run homer against Jameson Taillon (1-1) as the hosts lost their fourth straight game. Taillon struck out seven over six innings.

The 35 runs scored by Chicago marked the most the A's have allowed in their first three home games of a season, topping the 31 they yielded in 1922. The previous team to give up 35 runs over its first three home games was the 2009 New York Yankees, who permitted 37 and then went on to win the World Series. The 1951 St. Louis Browns allowed 42 runs in their first three at home.

The series finale drew a crowd of 9,342. Total announced attendance for the initial three-game set at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento was 31,556 after the opener Monday had a sellout of 12,119.

Key moment Rooker's two-run homer in the third was all the offense the A's could muster.

Key stat Chicago has five straight multi-homer games and the club's 13 home runs during that stretch are most in the National League.

Up next Both teams are off Thursday, with the Cubs finally heading home to host San Diego on Friday after starting the season in Japan and then going to Arizona and Sacramento. RHP Osvaldo Bido (1-0, 1.80 ERA) pitches for the A's at Colorado on Friday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Muncy grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Urías grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Brown out at second, Wilson to third.
	9th Inning	Brown walked.
	9th Inning	Wilson doubled to right.
	9th Inning	Morgan relieved Pearson
	9th Inning	Suzuki struck out swinging.

Statistics

CHC		ATH
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	0
8	Ground Balls	10
9	Strikeouts	8
10	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
11	Hits	5
4	Stolen Bases	0
7	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
10	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
1	Sacrifice Flies	0
38	At Bats	31
2	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
24	Runners Left On Base	15
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
22	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
195	Pitches	136
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
18	Total Bases	9
47	Plate Appearances	36
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
8.8	Runs Created	2.0
.289	Batting Average	.161
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.474	Slugging Percentage	.290
.474	Secondary Average	.290
.404	On Base Percentage	.278
.878	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.568
0.4	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
8.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.9
63.0	Batter Rating	18.0
19.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.15	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.78
.184	Isolated Power	.129
0.78	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.63
.149	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.139
.184	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.129
20.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
102.3	MLB Rating	69.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0