Apparently, the Windy City wasn’t playing games. Detroit and Chicago picked up right where they left off last night, utilizing some Chitown wind to launch an array of homers.

Nick Castellanos started the show with a solo shot in the second inning. After another Tiger reached base, our pitcher (in the National League park) stepped to the plate. He blasted one off Jon Lester to dead center, stunning everyone in his first major league at bat. GODDAMN. Up 3-0 and pelting Lester, Detroit loaded the bases the ensuing inning. Both Big Cat and V had worked a walk. Castellanos stepped up to bat and liked the first pitch he saw, crushing it over the wall in left field. 7-0: adios, Jon.

The Cubbies weren’t going away quietly, though. Their young guns slapped a pair of homers themselves off Detroit’s Babe Ruth, making it 7-3. Then, in the fifth inning, our pitcher strained his oblique and had to leave before he could guarantee the win. You know our bullpen doesn’t give a fuck, so let the games begin.

Somehow, Chinless Joe & Co. got out of a bases loaded jam, and Rajai Davis belted one out to right for an 8-3 lead. For the rest of the night, both teams would swap runs back and forth with the Tigers answering every Chicago try. You would have thought up seven nothing, that’d be enough runs. But by the end of the ninth, they put up eight. Luckily, we beat them with 15.

J.D. Martinez put the finishing touches on the two-game series with a spank over left with one on. Anthony Gose scored six runs in the two games, the first time we hit 19+ times in back-to-back games in oldschool’s lifetime!