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CHICAGO — The Cubs’ 2-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday completed their fourth sweep of the season, and they have now won nine straight against Colorado including three straight three-game sweeps.

It was hard to get the bats going for either team in a cold three games at Wrigley Field, but the Cubs did just enough in each contest after scoring only nine runs over the series. 

Seiya Suzuki and Pete Crow-Armstrong each drove in a run in Wednesday night’s victory and made Cubs history in the process. They became the first pair of teammates in franchise history to reach 50 RBI in the team’s first 56 games, per Ed Hartig. The team previously saw teammates reach the 50 RBI mark in the first 62 games of a season (done in 1969, 1930 and 1929).

Here are three things we learned as the Cubs (35-21) brought out the brooms again over the Rockies (9-47). 

He’s autoMATTic 

Matthew Boyd entered Wednesday coming off an uncharacteristically rough start in Cincinnati over the weekend, allowing four runs in only four innings.

A bounce-back start was crucial for Boyd in Wednesday’s series finale, and he did just that. 

Things got a little bit rocky (no pun intended) for Boyd in the sixth inning when he made an erratic pickoff throw to put a runner on third with one out. That run came across to score on a sacrifice fly, but it was unearned, leaving Boyd the pseudo-beneficiary of his own mistake as his ERA went unblemished.

A few deep fly balls caused momentary scares for the lefty, but he got out of the inning unscathed — ending his night with eight strikeouts and zero runs on four hits. 

Boyd also came two batters short of a Cubs history nugget — if he retired the Rockies in order in the third inning, it would have been the first time since 2003 that the Cubs set down the first nine-plus batters in three consecutive games. 

Fore!

The fans sitting below the right field video board on Wednesday saw a ball rocketed straight towards their heads in the bottom of the fourth inning. 

Pete Crow-Armstrong was the culprit again as he launched his 15th home run of the season, a 379-foot solo shot to double the Cubs’ lead. 

A curveball below the zone is hardly hitter-friendly, but it certainly is for Crow-Armstrong. He’s proven he loves practicing his golf swing on the baseball field, with three of his home runs this season coming on barrels from below the strike zone, per Statcast.

It was also the seventh pitch Crow-Armstrong has barreled from outside the strike zone, which leads MLB and overtakes Mets slugger Pete Alonso once again. 

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Welcome to The Shaw Show

After his first MLB walk-off single lifted the Cubs over the Rockies in 11 innings Tuesday night, Matt Shaw is here to prove he’s no one-hit wonder. 

Shaw continued to exude confidence at the plate and on the basepaths, collecting two more hits and swiping another base. 

The 23-year-old third baseman is now slashing .355/.412/.516 with a .928 OPS since his return to the big leagues on May 19 in Miami. He’s also collected four stolen bases and three RBI in the process.

The Cubs will have Thursday off before concluding the homestand with a three-game set against the Cincinnati Reds. In Friday’s 1:20 p.m. game, Cubs hitters will face Andrew Abbott (4-0, 1.77 ERA), who went 5.2 innings and allowed just one run in his start against Chicago on May 24.