Trea Turner sent Shōta Imanaga’s second pitch of the game out of Citizens Bank Park, and the Cubs answered with a barrage that turned a rough start into an 11-2 win over the Phillies on Sunday. Nico Hoerner drove in a run, stole a run, and hit his second homer of the season as Chicago finished a three-game sweep in Philadelphia.
The Cubs scored 28 runs in the three games and left Philadelphia with a series win that was powered by a 15-hit attack. Imanaga settled in after the early homer and allowed just two other hits and a walk over six innings, striking out 11 and missing bats all afternoon with 26 swings-and-misses.
Hoerner helped flip the game in the third inning, when Matt Shaw doubled and scored on his single. Hoerner then teamed with Alex Bregman on a double steal, and when J.T. Realmuto’s throw got away, Hoerner came home to push Chicago further in front. In the fifth, Hoerner added the punch that widened the gap for good, lifting his second home run of the season as the Cubs moved ahead 5-1.
Chicago kept coming in the sixth. Dansby Swanson, Miguel Amaya and Pete Crow-Armstrong singled to load the bases, then Shaw ripped his third double of the game and drove in two runs. It was a rare line even by franchise standards: before Shaw, the last Cub with three doubles in a game was Javier Báez on April 13, 2019. Welington Castillo did it on May 2, 2014, Aramis Ramirez was the last to do it on the road before Shaw, on April 10, 2011, and the last Cubs three-double game in a road win came from Ramirez on July 29, 2008.
Four doubles in a game is even more unusual. Matt Murton was the last Cub to do it, on Aug. 3, 2006, while Billy Williams was the first, on April 9, 1969. Shaw did not match that mark, but his night still helped define a game in which the Cubs looked deep, fast and hard to slow down. After one bad pitch to Turner, they controlled everything else.
The series ended the way Chicago needed it to: with a lopsided win, a relentless lineup and Hoerner again right in the middle of it. The Cubs did not just beat the Phillies. They spent three days in Philadelphia pummeling them, and Sunday made the point plain.
