The St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs play the second game of their 3-game series Saturday at Wrigley Field.

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MLB baseball action gets underway with the Chicago Cubs facing the St. Louis Cardinals in a showdown of division rivals.

In town for a big NASCAR race, Alvin Kamara threw out the first and second pitches for Saturday's Chicago Cubs game after asking for a do-over.

Bad first pitches tend to go viral; however, Alvin Kamara brought the heat with his first pitch before the Chicago Cubs took the field.

Saints RB Alvin Kamara threw the first pitch ahead of Saturday's Cardinals-Cubs game, and it was so bad that he got a rare do-over.

CHICAGO -- Michael Busch and the Chicago Cubs turned their holiday into a home run. Eight of them, to be exact. Busch hit three longballs, Pete Crow-Armstrong connected twice and the Cubs went deep a franchise-record eight times to hammer the St. Louis Cardinals 11-3 on Friday for their fourth straight victory.

An update to the previous announcement,” a Cubs official said into the press box microphone. “Michael Busch’s home run now represents the 26th time this has happened.” Such was the nature of Friday’s 4th of July game between the Cubs and the St.

It’s tough to set many new franchise records for the Cubs, an organization that’s been around since 1876, but Craig Counsell’s lineup got to work early against the Cardinals in Friday’s 11-3 win at Wrigley Field.