Cubs Shatter Records With Nine Home Runs In Historic Win

The Chicago Cubs absolutely crushed their National League Central rivals, the Milwaukee Brewers, while etching themselves into history with an offensive explosion that defied belief. The team blasted a franchise-record nine home runs in this victory. Star third baseman Alex Bregman clubbed three of those blasts. Those nine total tied for the second-most by any single team in one game across all of Major League Baseball history.

Cubs starter Clay Holmes threw a scoreless first inning before the offense took over. Left fielder Tyrone Taylor opened the scoring with a two-run, 419-foot homer into the left-center-field bleachers off Brewers' starter Kyle Harrison. Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner went back-to-back with Taylor immediately after, hammering a 94-mph fastball from Harrison into the left-field seats for a solo home run that gave the Cubs a 3-0 lead. The barrage continued in the bottom of the second inning when Bregman cranked his first of three home runs. That was a two-run shot off another Harrison fastball that pushed the score to 6-0.

In the fourth inning, the Cubs went back-to-back for the second time during this contest. Right fielder Seiya Suzuki hit a solo home run to center field, and Bregman's second blast of the game went to left-center field. That second home run by Bregman was the fifth ball Harrison allowed in four innings of work. Cubs catcher Carson Kelly hit the team's sixth home run of the game in the bottom of the seventh inning. He drove a solo shot off DL Hall that gave the Cubs a 10-2 lead. After Kelly's blast, Brewers manager Pat Murphy had seen enough and put first baseman Andrew Vaughn on the mound to finish out the game.

With a position player pitching for Milwaukee, the Cubs did not stop slugging. Matt Shaw, Michael Conforto, and Bregman all hit home runs off Vaughn over two innings. With that nine-home-run output, the Cubs set the National League record for the most home runs in August with 62 total. "The position-player stuff gets a little ridiculous at the end there, honestly," Cubs manager Craig Counsell said according to MLB.com. "That's great we set a record. And the guys aren't going to stop hitting. Guys are not going to stop hitting. They're going to take advantage of it, and they should. They absolutely should. We'll take it."

With their 62nd home run, the Cubs passed the 2023 Atlanta Braves for the most home runs in August. The Braves had 61. The 2019 New York Yankees hold the record with 74. The list of home run feats does not end there. With Bregman's second three-home-run game of the month, the Cubs now have four such games this season. NL MVP candidate Pete Crow-Armstrong did it Saturday, and shortstop Dansby Swanson did it July 1. Those were the other two players to accomplish the feat. The 2001 Brewers, 1956 Cincinnati Reds, 1950 Brooklyn Dodgers, and now the 2026 Cubs are the only four teams to have four individual three-run home-run games in a season.

Bregman, who hit 12 home runs in August, and Crow-Armstrong, who hit 15, are just the third pair of teammates to each hit at least 12 homers in the same month. Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris did it twice for the Yankees, in July 1961 and June 1960. Iván Rodríguez and Rafael Palmeiro did it in August 1999 with the Texas Rangers. The Cubs (78-60) will look to keep their bats hot when they play the Brewers (85-53) in the second game of their four-game series Tuesday at 7:40 p.m. ET.