Hoerner drives in five

Nico Hoerner drove in a career-high five runs on April 15 as the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 11-2 at Citizens Bank Park. (mlb.com) Hoerner finished 3-for-5 with a two-run homer, a run-scoring single and a stolen base, and Chicago turned a 1-1 game into a rout by scoring in five different innings. (mlb.com) His fifth-inning homer came off Phillies left-hander Jesús Luzardo, and his run-scoring single in the third helped start a three-run frame after Trea Turner had given Philadelphia a 1-0 lead with a first-inning homer. (mlb.com) The outburst came one day after Hoerner helped fuel another Cubs win in Philadelphia, giving him eight runs batted in across the two games, the most he has produced in any two-game span in the majors. (mlb.com) Chicago manager Craig Counsell had called Hoerner “the engine” of the offense after the April 14 comeback, and the second baseman followed that with the biggest run-production game of his career on April 15. (mlb.com) The game fit Hoerner’s early 2026 profile. ESPN listed him at a.300 batting average, 10 runs batted in and an.869 on-base plus slugging percentage after the Phillies game. (espn.com) The Cubs used that production to win the series in Philadelphia, and the 11-2 result matched one of their most lopsided victories of the season’s first three weeks. (espn.com) For Hoerner, the headline was simple: a contact-first infielder who rarely piles up huge run totals had the loudest box score of the night, and the Cubs rode all five of those runs to another win. (chicagotribune.com)