The biggest crowd at Wrigley Field since Sept. 22, 2019, got to make plenty of noise Friday, and Anthony Rizzo’s sixth inning, game-tying home run might have been the loudest the Lakeview neighborhood has been in close to two years.
Rizzo capped a 14-pitch at-bat against the Cardinals’ Daniel Ponce de Leon, including 10 foul balls, with a rocket to right field, a 110.1 mph shot off his bat that brought the Wrigley crowd to a roar.
Rizzo’s homer was one of seven unanswered runs the Cubs scored to beat the Cardinals 8-5. It was the longest Cubs at-bat since at least 1988 to end in a home run, and with it, Rizzo tied a game the Cubs had trailed 5-1 going into the fifth inning.