Cubs set record with six home runs in single postseason game
No team had ever before hit six home runs in a playoff game. The Cubs changed that with a record-setting win in Game 3 of the NLDS over the Cardinals.
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Matt Snyder
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The Chicago Cubs have made postseason history in a positive way. That's something we don't often see, no?
But it happened. In their 8-6 Game 3 victory over the Cardinals, the Cubs hit six home runs. That's a major-league record in the postseason. The previous record-holders were these teams with five.
1928 Yankees, 5 HR in Game 4 of the World Series
1984 Cubs, 5 HR in Game 1 of the NLCS
1989 Athletics, 5 HR in Game 3 of the World Series
2004 Cardinals, 5 HR in Game 1 of 2004 NLDS
2005 White Sox, 5 HR in Game 1 of ALDS
The Cubs have topped them all with a six-homer performance. It started in the second with Kyle Schwarber's solo blast:
The Cubs were actually trailing when Starlin Castro went deep to tie it in the fourth:
Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo went back to back to push the lead to 5-2 in the fifth (videos here). The Cardinals would get two back with a Jason Heyward homer, but Jorge Soler's two-run shot pushed it up to 7-4 in the bottom of the sixth (video here).
And then, leadoff man Dexter Fowler tacked on some insurance with the record-setting home run in the eighth:
The wind was blowing out strongly to right field, but only Rizzo and Fowler put theirs out to right -- and Rizzo's would've been out even if the wind were blowing in. In all, it was just a huge night for the Cubs' sluggers.
