Alec Burleson and Jordan Walker both homer and drive in 4 runs as the Cardinals pound the Cubs 11-4

CHICAGO (AP) — Alec Burleson and Jordan Walker both homered and finished with three hits and four RBIs, and the St. Louis Cardinals pounded the Chicago Cubs 11-4 on Sunday for a second straight win at Wrigley Field.

Burleson has homered in consecutive games, boosting his total to 21 to tie his career high. Walker’s drive, his 24th, was just the second in 30 games for the All-Star right fielder and capped the Cardinals' six-run fourth inning.

Walker doubled twice and Burleson once to help St. Louis cruise to its fifth win in seven games.

Joshua Báez, who became the first player to hit three home runs in his first three at-bats in the major leagues on Saturday, went 0 for 5 with three strikeouts.

Pete Crow-Armstrong cracked his 28th home run, a two-run shot. Miguel Amaya added a solo drive in the ninth as Chicago lost for the third time in four.

Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson left the game after hurting himself when he swung and missed on the first pitch from Cardinals starter Hunter Dobbins in the third.

Cubs manager Craig Counsell said Swanson would have an MRI on Monday, but believed the two-time Gold Glove winner had sustained a left oblique injury that will land him on the injured list.

Dobbins (3-3) allowed two runs on two hits through five innings, striking out seven and walking four. Three relievers followed.

Cubs starter Edward Cabrera (5-5) struggled after coming off the injured list for his first start since June 23, when he suffered a left hamstring/adductor strain against the Mets in New York. To make room on the roster, the Cubs optioned right-hander Javier Assad to Triple-A Iowa.

Cabrera was rocked for seven runs on six hits in 3 2/3 innings. He walked three — all in the fourth — and all scored in the Cardinals’ six-run rally.

Burleson launched a sinker deep into the right-field bleachers for a 2-0 St. Louis lead in the first. The Cardinals upped it to 3-0 in the second, then blew it open in the fourth.

Burleson had two-run single and Walker a two-run shot to center in the rally.

Cardinals: LHP Quinn Matthews (0-1, 3.60 ERA) will be recalled from Triple-A Memphis to start the first game of a doubleheader at Cincinnati on Monday and face Reds RHP Rhett Lowder (4-8, 5.15) RHP Andre Pallante (12-6, 3.46) will start the second for the Cardinals

Cubs: LHP Shota Imanaga (8-9, 3.74 ERA) faces White Sox RHP Luis Castillo (4-9, 4.96) on Monday night in the opener of a three-game series at Wrigley.

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Chicago Cubs' James Triantos strikes out during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Melissa Tamez)

St. Louis Cardinals' Jordan Walker hits a two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Melissa Tamez)

St. Louis Cardinals' Jordan Walker (18) celebrates with teammate Alec Burleson (41) after hitting a two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Melissa Tamez)

St. Louis Cardinals' Jordan Walker watches his two-run home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Melissa Tamez)

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 9, 2026--

Turing, the superintelligence accelerator that drives real economic progress from AI, today announced that Patrick McKinney has joined the company as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). McKinney will lead Turing’s global security strategy as the company scales its work with the world’s leading AI labs and enterprises across highly regulated industries.

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McKinney brings extensive experience building and scaling security programs at high-growth technology companies. Most recently, he served as vice president of security & IT at Invisible Technologies, where he was the company’s first dedicated security hire and built its security organization from the ground up to support some of the world’s largest companies. Earlier in his career, McKinney held security and compliance roles at Dropbox and Coinbase, where he was part of the teams that helped guide both companies through their public offerings.

“Patrick has built security organizations for some of the most demanding and fast-moving technology environments, and he understands that world-class security has to enable a business to move quickly, not stand in its way,” said Jonathan Siddharth, CEO and founder of Turing. “As Turing works with frontier labs and enterprises to build and deploy increasingly capable AI systems, Patrick will help ensure security remains foundational to how we operate and scale.”

“AI is fundamentally changing the security landscape. It gives security teams powerful new capabilities to monitor and respond to threats at scale, while giving adversaries access to capabilities they’ve never had before,” said McKinney. “Turing operates at the forefront of that shift, working with leading AI labs and enterprises across industries and around the world. As AI continues to advance, security has an important role to play in enabling its potential across industries.”

As CISO, McKinney will oversee security across Turing’s frontier AI and enterprise AI businesses. Turing works with leading AI labs and Fortune 500 companies across industries including financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail and automotive, creating a broad range of security, compliance and data protection requirements.

About Turing

Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing helps frontier AI labs improve model capabilities in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and frontier STEM by providing evaluations, expert human data, and reinforcement learning environments. In software engineering, Turing is the category’s largest and longest-running research and data provider. Turing also helps Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail, automotive, and CPG to build, deploy, and scale agentic AI systems. By operating on both sides, Turing closes the loop between frontier research and enterprise deployment. Learn more at www.turing.com.

Patrick McKinney, Chief Information Security Officer, Turing