BALTIMORE (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong hit two of Chicago's five home runs and the Cubs outslugged the Baltimore Orioles 9-7 on Wednesday night.
Michael Conforto and Carson Kelly also went deep on the first two pitches of the fifth inning for Chicago, tying the game immediately after Pete Alonso's two-run shot had given Baltimore a 3-1 lead.
Chicago then scored five runs in the seventh, including a three-run shot by Seiya Suzuki.
Tyler O'Neill homered twice for Baltimore and Coby Mayo also went deep.
Colin Rea (7-5) allowed three runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings for the Cubs. Dean Kremer (1-2) gave up just six hits in five innings, but four of them were solo homers.
Down 9-3 in the seventh, the Orioles made it interesting against Chicago's bullpen. O’Neill’s pinch-hit homer and Taylor Ward’s RBI single made it 9-5 in the seventh. Then Mayo added a 420-foot homer into the second deck in left field in the eighth, and O'Neill followed with a 433-foot drive to left-center.
Jacob Webb halted the comeback, pitching a perfect ninth for his fourth save.
Crow-Armstrong now has 21 home runs and he became baseball's first 20-homer, 20-stolen base man of the season. He's just the third Cubs player with multiple 20-20 campaigns, along with Ryne Sandberg and Sammy Sosa. Only Sosa and Crow-Armstrong have done it in back-to-back seasons.
No. 9 hitter Jackson Holliday had four hits for the Orioles, but leadoff man Gunnar Henderson went 0 for 5 without hitting the ball out of the infield. Henderson hit into two double plays, and when he finally hit a sharp line drive up the middle with a runner on second in the eighth, shortstop Dansby Swanson made a diving catch to end the inning.
One of the double plays Henderson hit into brought a run home, tying the game at 1 in the third after Crow-Armstrong had opened the scoring in the top of the inning.
After Alonso's 20th homer, Kremer allowed solo shots by Conforto, Kelly and Crow-Armstrong in a four-batter span.
It was still 4-3 in the seventh when Grant Wolfram came in to pitch with two on and one out. He allowed a walk, a sacrifice fly and another walk before throwing a run-scoring wild pitch and then allowing Suzuki's 14th homer.
The Cubs go for a three-game sweep Thursday, sending David Peterson (4-7) to the mound against Trevor Rogers (6-7). The game was moved to 1:35 p.m. ET because of potential bad weather.
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Baltimore Orioles' Jackson Holliday hits a single off Chicago Cubs pitcher Colin Rea during the third inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)
Chicago Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong hits a home run off Baltimore Orioles pitcher Dean Kremer during the third inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)
Chicago Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong runs the bases after hitting a home run off Baltimore Orioles pitcher Dean Kremer during the third inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Terrance Williams)
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market steadied itself Thursday after absorbing big swings for Nvidia’s stock and oil prices. The moves suggested Wall Street sees limited fallout for the artificial intelligence industry, which carries immense influence on the market, despite the sudden fall of one of its biggest evangelists.
After dropping nearly 1% at the start of trading, the S&P 500 erased all of the loss and then drifted between small gains and losses before dipping 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 88 points, or 0.2%, with an hour remaining in trading, while the Nasdaq composite was down 0.5% after trimming an early drop of 1.6%.
At the center of the swings was Nvidia's stock. It plunged 14% at the start of trading following the resignation of Jensen Huang, its CEO, co-founder and face of the brand. The chip company’s stock has been sinking since its board announced an investigation into Huang for a relationship with a woman suspected of being a Chinese government agent.
It’s a stunning fall for Huang and for Nvidia, which had become Wall Street’s most valuable and influential stock because of its central role in the AI boom. Its stock price set a record last month after soaring an astounding 1,722% in four years. That compares with the already healthy gain of nearly 109% for the overall S&P 500 over the same time.
But Nvidia’s price dropped 27% from then through Wednesday on worries about whether Huang would remain as CEO and how Nvidia would navigate a future without him. Nvidia’s board answered the first question Thursday morning, when it said Huang resigned, and it named Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as its interim CEO.
The second question remains unanswered. And it looms over the entire market because Nvidia and the broader AI industry have been the main reasons the U.S. stock market has set so many records in recent years.
Nvidia, to be sure, is still selling AI chips at a quick rate regardless of who stands on a stage and talks them up, and analysts said it remains the industry's leader. That helped Nvidia quickly halve its early loss Thursday, and its stock was most recently down 5.4%. That paring helped the broader market to recover.
Outside of Nvidia, stocks across the AI industry swung in the uncertainty.
CoreWeave, which buys Nvidia chips and then rents out access to them to customers over the cloud, fell 8.2%. Micron Technology, which sells memory for computers that’s been getting gobbled up in the AI frenzy, sank 2.1%.
But Broadcom rose 5.2%, and Advanced Micro Devices added 5.9% on hopes the rival chip companies will gain a competitive advantage. Those two gains came close to offsetting the drop for Nvidia, which was the single heaviest weight on the S&P 500. That suggests investors see the AI business expanding to other players rather than depending solely on Nvidia.
Demonstrating how much uncertainty was washing through the market was GE Vernova, which is helping to power AI data centers. It flipped from an early loss of 3% to a gain of 1.7%.
Also helping to limit the U.S. market's losses were gains for stocks in the oil and gas industry. Marathon Petroleum climbed 3.2%, and Exxon Mobil added 2.3%.
They benefited from a rise in oil prices after President Donald Trump said he’s no longer interested in a deal with Iran to end their war. Instead of that, Trump said he asked his vice president to investigate U.S. cities and states run by Democrats.
“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump said. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
The price for a barrel of Brent crude climbed 3.3% to $95.82. The price for the most actively traded contract in the Brent market has been veering sharply since the United States and Israel began the war with Iran in late February, bouncing between roughly $70 and $120.
Higher oil prices push up worries about inflation, and the yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 5.10% from 4.98% late Tuesday. Trading in the bond market had been closed Wednesday for Veterans Day.
Higher yields make borrowing money more expensive for everyone, from the U.S. government to companies building AI data centers to regular people buying houses. High mortgage rates helped send sales of previously occupied U.S. homes in October to their slowest pace in more than 16 years.
The housing industry has been slowing the U.S. economy but not upending it. A separate report on Thursday said that slightly more U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, but the number remains relatively low compared with history.
In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed in Europe following a weaker finish in Asia.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 1.3% for one of the world’s biggest moves.
AP Business Writer Yuri Kageyama contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to show the highest price for the most actively traded contract in the Brent oil market since the war with Iran was nearly $120 per barrel.
A screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange displays news about Nvidia's stock price in New York, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
A person looks at an electronic display board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A person walks below a huge screen, displaying the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
The screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) is seen in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
