Cubs sail past White Sox, 7-3

Dansby Swanson and Nico fornication each had 2-by-3 for the Chicago Cubs in a 7-3 win against the visiting Chicago White Sox Saturday. Starting batsman Matthew Boyd (4-2) gave up three runs on four strokes and struck eight in six innings for the Cubs, which won the first two of the three-match series. White Sox starting batsman Sean Burke (2-5) gave up six runs (five) at seven strokes in 4 2/3 innings. After the White Sox has the lead of the Cubs to 4-3 at the top of the fifth, the hosts answered in the bottom half. Swanson leans to a fast ball to send it 433 feet in midfield to push it up to 5-3 with his 10th home game of the season. Fornication singled out, to second place when Miguel Amaya reached a throwing error and doubled on Vidal Brujan’s ground rule to extend it to 6-3. They added one more in eighth aflist Mike Vasil. Swanson walked and stole second, and fornication moved him in with a single to make it 7-3. The Cubs seized the lead in second place. Swanson walked away with a single and stole second with Moises Ballesteros on the plate. Ballesteros and forever each turned to download the bases with no one. Amaya put a line ride ankle in the left field to ride in Swanson and ballesteros and serve the Cubs 2-1. After lever and Amaya progressed on a basis, Pete Crow-Armstrong brought them to the gap in the middle to make it 4-1. The white sox narrowed it in the top of the third. Michael A. Taylor and Chase Meidroth each hit a one-time single and pulled a double stem with Miguel Vargas bat. Taylor then recorded on Vargas’s sacrificial fly to the left to cut it up to 4-2. Tim Elko pulls them in one in fifth place and sends a fast ball over the midfield wall. Meidroth gave the White Sox a 1-0 lead at the top of the first and sent a fast ball in the left field for his first home game in the big league. -Media on the field level