Powered by Christian Yelich and Justin Smoak home runs, the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Chicago Cubs 8-3 on Saturday at Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks silenced the Brewers' bats in a 3-0 Cubs win Friday on Opening Day, but Yu Darvish and the Chicago bullpen came nowhere close to matching Hendricks' results in the second game of the series.
Milwaukee improved its record to 1-1 with the win, while Chicago fell to 1-1 in a season that places greater emphasis than ever on single games since teams will play only 60 games rather than the customary 162 due to the coronavirus pandemic delaying the start of the campaign.