CHICAGO (AP) — Seiya Suzuki, Carson Kelly and Kevin Alcántara each hit a two-run homer, and the Chicago Cubs handed the Los Angeles Dodgers their fourth consecutive loss with a 10-5 victory Monday night.
Michael Busch drove in three runs against his former team, helping Chicago improve to 2-2 on a seven-game homestand. The Cubs also pulled within 5 1/2 games of NL Central-leading Milwaukee, which lost 4-3 to Pittsburgh.
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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski, right, gives the ball to manager Dave Roberts, front left, as he is taken out during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski looks down as he is about to leave a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs during the fifth inning Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Chicago Cubs' Carson Kelly, right, is greeted by Alex Bregman, left, after hitting a two-run home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the third inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Chicago Cubs' Kevin Alcantara (13) is greeted at the dugout after hitting a two-run home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Chicago Cubs' Kevin Alcantara, right, is greeted by Dansby Swanson after hitting a two-run home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the second inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Los Angeles has dropped six of eight overall after it was swept by Boston over the weekend. Tarik Skubal takes the mound Tuesday night for his first start with the NL West leaders since the ace left-hander was acquired in a trade with Detroit.
Tommy Edman hit a three-run homer for the Dodgers, and Teoscar Hernández also went deep. Justin Wrobleski (11-3) was tagged for seven runs and seven hits over 4 1/3 innings in his first loss since May 22.
Suzuki connected for his 19th homer in the first, driving in Pete Crow-Armstrong after a leadoff single. Alcántara gave the Cubs a 4-3 lead with his first career homer in the second, a two-out shot to left-center after Dansby Swanson walked. Kelly added his seventh homer in the third.
Los Angeles closed to 7-5 on Hernández's 443-foot solo shot in the sixth. But the Cubs responded with three runs in the bottom half.
Kelly walked with the bases loaded when he used the ABS system to successfully challenge a called third strike on a full-count slider from Tanner Scott. Busch then hit a two-out grounder into right field, driving in Crow-Armstrong and Suzuki.
Busch also connected for his 14th homer in the fifth, delighting the crowd of 39,384 on a picturesque night at Wrigley Field.
Matthew Boyd (7-1) allowed five runs, four earned, and nine hits in 6 2/3 innings for Chicago.
The Cubs bolstered their pitching staff with a series of moves ahead of Monday's trade deadline, acquiring Clay Holmes from the New York Mets and reliever Ryan Zeferjahn from the Los Angeles Angels.
Skubal (7-5, 2.79 ERA) went 4-1 with a 1.95 ERA in his last six starts for Detroit. Right-hander Javier Assad (6-1, 3.75) pitches for Chicago on Tuesday night.
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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski, right, gives the ball to manager Dave Roberts, front left, as he is taken out during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski looks down as he is about to leave a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs during the fifth inning Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Chicago Cubs' Carson Kelly, right, is greeted by Alex Bregman, left, after hitting a two-run home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the third inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Chicago Cubs' Kevin Alcantara (13) is greeted at the dugout after hitting a two-run home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
Chicago Cubs' Kevin Alcantara, right, is greeted by Dansby Swanson after hitting a two-run home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the second inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A record-breaking hot and dry summer tightened its grip on Europe on Monday, as water-dropping planes swooped over a major wildfire in Greece, firefighters in France sought to stabilize a blaze in Provence, and much of the United Kingdom recorded its driest July in nearly two centuries.
Wildfires west of Athens jumped containment lines a day after a midair collision between two helicopters killed two crew members. A Greek and a Danish national died and two others were hospitalized following the collision on Sunday.
All four were private operators chartered by the Greek firefighting service.
In France, firefighters in the region around Bordeaux guarded against potential flare-ups inside a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris.
A prolonged heat wave and lack of rainfall led to the driest July in England and Wales in nearly 200 years of recordkeeping, according to provisional statistics, the U.K.’s weather service said Monday.
All of Wales and more than half of England are officially in drought, the Met Office said. The dry spell was accompanied by sweltering temperatures across much of the U.K., following heat waves in May and June.
Wales tied its record for its warmest mean temperature for July while England and the U.K. recorded their second-warmest July.
Strong winds returned to southern Greece late on Monday, pushing flames into mountain home clusters, destroying farms and property, and closing a highway.
Areas surrounding the Greek capital remain at high risk through the week with temperatures set to rise further. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from around the seaside resort of Porto Germeno and other areas west of the capital — including more than 250 rescued by boats from beaches in the area.
“This is a difficult fire that has troubled us,” Fire Service spokesman Yiannis Artopios said, adding that 12 water-dropping planes and 11 helicopters were operating in the area Monday.
The blaze was blamed on a faulty power line from a wind farm and led to the arrests of two contractors on charges of negligent arson.
Despite improved detection methods and expanded cooperation among European Union members, Greece and other countries along Europe's Mediterranean coast suffer devastating wildfires every summer as spells of heat wave temperatures grow longer.
Europe is Earth’s fastest-warming continent, heating at more than twice the global average since the 1980s, according to the European Union’s Copernicus climate service. Rising temperatures and prolonged drought leave vegetation drier and more combustible, allowing fires to spread faster and burn more intensely.
Thousands of evacuees were allowed to return home or to their holiday accommodations in France on Monday after a massive wildfire remained contained. More than 224,000 people had fled in what officials said was the country’s largest civilian evacuation outside wartime.
The wildfire burned about 420 square kilometers (162 square miles), making it France’s largest wildfire on record. Monday's return includes Cap Ferret peninsula, a tourist hot spot along the Atlantic coast, and Le Porge, the municipality hardest hit by the fire, where 183 homes were destroyed. Campsites remain closed.
A second wildfire in Provence did not flare up overnight, but was still not contained on Monday as stronger winds were expected, firefighters and authorities said. About 1,500 firefighters, supported by water-dropping helicopters, continued reinforcing fire lines along the blaze that tore through about 18 square kilometers (7 square miles).
The European Forest Fire Information System said the risk of wildfire remains high across parts of the continent through Aug. 5, including in traditionally cooler northern countries.
Firefighters in the Netherlands were battling a large blaze on Monday in a forest in the southern province of Limburg, authorities said, as the country sweltered through another day of hot, dry summer weather. The national railway operator halted trains between two towns in the area due to the fire.
The Dutch air force sent two Chinook helicopters equipped with large water containers to help firefighters tackle the blaze. Media reported that a campsite in the area was evacuated due to poor air quality caused by a large plume of smoke.
Corbet reported from Paris. Associated Press writers Elena Becatoros in Athens; Thomas Adamson in Paris; Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands, and Brian Melley in London contributed to this report.
A firefighting helicopter drops water over a smoke-filled forest during a wildfire near Porto Germeno, northwest of Athens, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
Burned bicycles lean against the wall of a house destroyed by a wildfire in Porto Germeno, northwest of Athens, Greece, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A firefighting helicopter drops water over a wildfire on Mount Kithairon near Porto Germeno, northwest of Athens, Greece, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A firefighting helicopter drops water on a wildfire on a mountain near L'Aquila, central Italy, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)
Firefighters operate during a wildfire near Porto Germeno, northwest of Athens, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
A firefighting helicopter drops water over a smoke-filled forest during a wildfire near Porto Germeno, northwest of Athens, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
Flames are seen on a mountainside during a wildfire near Porto Germeno, northwest of Athens, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
A volunteer firefighter observs a flame rising next to a house during a wildfire near Porto Germeno, northwest of Athens, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
A volunteer tries to extinguish small flames during a wildfire near Porto Germeno, northwest of Athens, Greece, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)
