Six more times, a Cub homered in the game before the one in which he homered three times. Billy Williams, in 1968, and Kingman, in 1979, hit two homers in the game prior to smacking three. In 1978, Kingman homered once in the games both before and after his game with three.

The Chicago Cubs set a franchise record by hitting eight home runs in a single game on Saturday against the visiting St. Louis Cardinals, with first baseman Michael Busch smacking three of them and All-Star starting center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong providing two more in an 11-3 victory.

Michael Busch and the Chicago Cubs turned their holiday into a home run. Eight of them, to be exact. Busch hit three longballs, Pete Crow-Armstrong connected twice and the Cubs went deep a franchise-record eight times to hammer the St.