On a day that can only be described as languid, the Chicago Cubs punctuated things at Wrigley Field by smashing four home runs on their way to a 10-6 win over the visiting Minnesota Twins.
Game-time temperature was 96 degrees, humidity was high and the wind was blowing out at 12 miles per hour. That helped out the Twins’ Joe Mauer, who came up with two out and two runners on base in the second inning and launched a high fly ball to left that would most likely have been an ordinary out on most days.