Saturday put a sour note on the Cubs’ recent streak.

Nothing a couple, er 6, home runs can’t fix.

The Cubs clubbed a half-dozen long balls against Cardinals pitching, including multi-homer games from Christopher Morel and Pete Crow-Armstrong, helped pace the Cubs to an 8-3 victory in the series finale in St. Louis. It was the first multi-homer game for the duo and it’s the first time the Cubs have clubbed 6 homers in a game since they hit 7 in a 20-9 win over the Reds on August 1, 2023.

The win caps off a 5-2 road trip for the Cubs heading into the All-Star break and an 8-3 run in their last 11 games. They enter the break at 47-51 and 3.5 games back in the NL Wild Card picture. It was just the type of road trip the Cubs would have asked for heading into the break.

Trailing 2-0 in the 3rd, Crow-Armstrong collected his second long ball of the season, a 403-foot blast to right field. The Cubs would tie it up a few batters later on a Seiya Suzuki infield single that plated Nico Hoerner from second base.

After that, the baseball really started flying out of Busch Stadium.

In the 5th, the Cubs added the first of two sets of back-to-back home runs. Tomás Nido hit an opposite-field homer to right and Crow-Armstrong followed it with a 411-foot home run to center field on a curveball well below the zone.

An inning later, Morel hit the first of his first 2 long balls, a 399-foot, 2-run shot to left field extended the Cubs lead.

Then, in the 8th, Ian Happ and Morel went back-to-back to put the finishing touches on the game.

The Cubs’ bats backed up a solid outing from Jameson Taillon, who allowed just 3 runs in 5.2 innings.