Tucker and Assad power Cubs to a 4-3 win over the Rockies

DENVER (AP) — Kyle Tucker had two hits and an RBI, Javier Assad won his first game in almost a year and the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 on Saturday night.

Tucker reached base four times and scored twice, and Michael Busch, Ian Happ and Seiya Suzuki had two hits apiece for the Cubs, who have won all five games against the Rockies this season.

Ezequiel Tovar had two hits and Mickey Moniak and Hunter Goodman had RBIs for the Rockies, who have lost four in a row and eight of nine.

Assad (1-1) gave up three runs and seven hits in six innings in his fourth start of the year after missing four months with an oblique injury. He walked two and struck out one.

Assad's last victory came last Aug. 31, when he beat Washington 7-4. He was recalled from Triple-A Iowa on Tuesday when Jameson Taillon was placed on the injured list with a groin injury.

Daniel Palencia struck out two in a 1-2-3 ninth for his 21st save in 23 chances.

The Cubs remained two games ahead of San Diego in the race for the first NL wild-card spot.

Colorado right-hander McCade Brown (0-2) gave up three runs on four hits. He struck out three and walked three.

Tucker’s RBI single gave the Cubs a 4-1 led in the sixth before the Rockies closed within 4-3 in the sixth when Tyler Freeman singled, Moniak tripled and Goodman hit a sacrifice fly.

Palencia scooped up Tovar’s grounder between the mound and first and made a swipe tag to retire Tovar for the second out of the ninth.

Tucker has reached base in eight straight games with hits in seven while going 11 for 28 with three doubles, three homers and eight RBIs.

Cubs: LHP Matt Boyd (12-7, 2.82 ERA) will face Rockies RHP Tanner Gordon (5-5, 6.44) Sunday in the series finale.

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Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Luis Peralta works against the Chicago Cubs in the seventh inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Chicago Cubs third baseman Matt Shaw throws to first base to put out Colorado Rockies' Hunter Goodman to end the eighth inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Chicago Cubs' Ian Happ, right, follows the flight of his RBI double off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher McCade Brown in the fifth inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Javier Assad works against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Chicago Cubs' Kyle Tucker follows the flight of his RBI single off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Jimmy Herget in the sixth inning of a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

NEW YORK (AP) — A surging stock market and a flurry of deal making padded the profits of Wall Street's two big investment banks, which both saw a double-digit jump in profits in the fourth quarter.

Goldman Sachs's net earnings rose 12% from a year earlier, posting a profit of $4.62 billion, or $14.01 a share. Meanwhile Morgan Stanley said it earned $4.4 billion, or $2.68 per share, compared to a profit of $3.71 billion, or $2.22 per share, compared to a year earlier.

Wall Street has been bolstered by the Trump administration's deregulatory policies, which has led corporations to seek out mergers and acquisitions, as well as the surge of investor interest in artificial intelligence companies and those who stand to benefit from the mass adoption of technologies like ChatGPT.

Fourth-quarter investment fee revenues over at Goldman were up 25% year-over-year and Morgan Stanley saw a 47% jump in revenue in its investment banking division. Both banks said their investment fee backlog, which is a signal of how much deal making is still pending that banks are working on, increased significantly in the fourth quarter.

Goldman and Morgan's results reflect the strong earnings out of the other big banks that reported their results this week. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup all saw jumps in fourth-quarter profits, but their results were dampened by the ongoing tensions that Wall Street is having with the White House over the issue of the independence of the Federal Reserve and President Donald Trump's interest in capping credit card interest rates at 10%.

Along with a strong investment banking performance, Goldman Sachs also agreed to sell off its Apple Card credit card portfolio to JPMorgan Chase last week, effectively exiting its brief experiment in consumer banking. The bank sold the credit card portfolio at a discount to JPMorgan, a sign of how desperately Goldman wanted to exit the business and put the Apple Card behind it.

This story has been corrected to show that Morgan Stanley's investment banking revenues rose 47%, not 22%.

FILE - Electronic signage is shown at Morgan Stanley headquarters, Thursday, March 4, 2021 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, the logo for Goldman Sachs appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)