Dansby Swanson and Nico Hoerner each went 2-for-3 for the Chicago Cubs in a 7-3 win against the visiting Chicago White Sox on Saturday.

Starting pitcher Matthew Boyd (4-2) gave up three runs on four hits and struck out eight in six innings for the Cubs, who have won the first two of the three-game series and defeated the White Sox in seven straight overall.

White Sox starter Sean Burke (2-5) gave up six runs (five earned) on seven hits in 4 2/3 innings. He fanned four and walked five.

After the White Sox narrowed the Cubs’ lead to 4-3 in the top of the fifth, the hosts responded in the bottom half. Swanson leaned into a fastball to send it 433 feet into the center field deck to push it to 5-3 with his 10th home run of the season.

Hoerner singled, went to second when Miguel Amaya reached on a throwing error and scored on Vidal Brujan’s ground-rule double to extend it to 6-3.

They added another in the eighth off reliever Mike Vasil. Swanson walked and stole second and Hoerner drove him in with a single to make it 7-3.

Similar to Friday’s opener, the Cubs overcame an early deficit with a big second inning. Trailing 1-0, the Cubs scored four in the second as Swanson sparked things with a leadoff single and a steal. Moises Ballesteros and Hoerner each drew a walk to load the bases with nobody out.

Amaya lined a single to left to drive in Swanson and Ballesteros for a 2-1 lead. After Hoerner and Amaya advanced on a groundout, Pete Crow-Armstrong brought them home with a single to center to make it 4-1.

The White Sox narrowed it in the top of the third. Michael A. Taylor and Chase Meidroth each hit a one-out single and pulled off a double steal with Miguel Vargas batting. Taylor scored on Vargas’ sacrifice fly to left to cut it to 4-2.

Tim Elko pulled the White Sox within one in the fifth with a 425-foot homer to center.

Meidroth gave the White Sox a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, sending a fastball into the left-field bleachers for his first major league homer.

–Field Level Media