Edgar Alvarez belted an oppo-field line-drive two-run HR over the LF fence (off a LHP!) to put the Cubs on the board in the bottom of the 1st inning, Cameron Sisneros cracked a towering solo HR high off the top of the screen in RF and roped an RBI double into the right-centerfield power alley, and Joan Delgado hammered a solo HR over the left-centerfield fence, as the Cubs defeated the Diamondbacks 8-4 in Arizona Instructional League game action Thursday night on Field #1 at the Cubs Sloan Park Complex in Mesa, AZ.
JD Dix (Diamondbacks 2024 Competitive Balance draft pick - Whitefish Bay HS - Whitefish Bay, WI) drilled an RBI single in the 1st inning, an RBI triple in the 3rd, singled and stole a base in the 6th, and singled again in the 7th, Tommy Troy (Diamondbacks 2023 1st round draft pick - Stanford) singled and scored in the 1st and tripled in the 5th, and Slade Caldwell (Diamondbacks 2024 1st round draft pick - Valley View HS - Jonesboro, AR) tripled and scored in the 3rd and laced a two-run single in the 7th, albeit in a losing cause.