Suzuki homers twice and knocks in 5 as Cubs rout A's 10-2 for 3-game sweep

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Seiya Suzuki homered twice and drove in five runs as the Chicago Cubs beat the Athletics 10-2 on Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep.

Matt Shaw added two RBI singles for the Cubs, who outscored the A’s 35-9 in the first major league series played at Sutter Health Park, the club’s planned home for the next three years before a proposed relocation to Las Vegas.

Suzuki hit an early three-run homer for the second consecutive game when he connected in the second inning off Jeffrey Springs (1-1). Suzuki went deep again leading off the fourth before adding a late RBI single.

It was Suzuki's fourth career multi-homer game. He has at least two hits in each of his last four games, with four home runs and 11 RBIs during that span.

Jacob Wilson had three of the A's five hits and Brent Rooker hit a two-run homer against Jameson Taillon (1-1) as the hosts lost their fourth straight game. Taillon struck out seven over six innings.

The 35 runs scored by Chicago marked the most the A's have allowed in their first three home games of a season, topping the 31 they yielded in 1922. The previous team to give up 35 runs over its first three home games was the 2009 New York Yankees, who permitted 37 and then went on to win the World Series. The 1951 St. Louis Browns allowed 42 runs in their first three at home.

The series finale drew a crowd of 9,342. Total announced attendance for the initial three-game set at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento was 31,556 after the opener Monday had a sellout of 12,119.

Rooker's two-run homer in the third was all the offense the A's could muster.

Chicago has five straight multi-homer games and the club's 13 home runs during that stretch are most in the National League.

Both teams are off Thursday, with the Cubs finally heading home to host San Diego on Friday after starting the season in Japan and then going to Arizona and Sacramento. RHP Osvaldo Bido (1-0, 1.80 ERA) pitches for the A's at Colorado on Friday.

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Athletics designated hitter Brent Rooker (25) celebrates towards the Athletics dugout after hitting a two run home run against the Chicago Cubs in the third inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Chicago Cubs' Seiya Suzuki (27) hits a three-run home run during the second inning inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Chicago Cubs pitcher Jameson Taillon (50) pitches to a Athletics batter during the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Chicago Cubs' Seiya Suzuki (27) celebrates with third base coach Quintin Berry (0) after hitting a three-run home run during the second inning inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Chicago Cubs right fielder Seiya Suzuki (27) hits a three run home run against the Athletics in the second inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Chicago Cubs' Seiya Suzuki (27) celebrates after hitting a three-run home run during the second inning inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Chicago Cubs' Seiya Suzuki (27) hits a three-run home run during the second inning inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

Chicago Cubs' Seiya Suzuki (27) smiles in the dugout after hitting a three-run home run during the second inning inning of a baseball game against the Athletics, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in West Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Marshall)

BANGKOK (AP) — Search teams pulled more bodies from the ruins of buildings on Friday, a week after a massive earthquake rocked Myanmar killing more than 3,100 people, as the focus turns toward the urgent humanitarian needs in a country that was already devastated by civil war.

United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher, who is also the emergency relief coordinator, was to arrive Friday in an effort to spur action following the quake. Ahead of his visit, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the international community to immediately step up funding for quake victims “to match the scale of this crisis,” and he urged unimpeded access to reach those in need.

“The earthquake has supercharged the suffering with the monsoon season just around the corner,” he said Thursday.

Myanmar authorities said Thursday that 3,145 people had been killed, with another 4,589 people injured and 221 missing, and did not immediately update the figures on Friday.

Britain, which had already given $13 million to purchase emergency items like food, water and shelter, pledged an additional $6.5 million in funds to match an appeal from Myanmar's Disasters Emergency Committee, according to the U.K. Embassy in Yangon.

Many international search and rescue teams were also on the scene, and eight medical crews from China, Thailand, Japan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Philippines, Indonesia and Russia were operating in Naypyitaw, according to Myanmar's military-run government. Another five teams from India, Russia, Laos and Nepal and Singapore were helping in the Mandalay region, while teams from Russia, Malaysia and the ASEAN bloc of nations were assisting in the Sagaing region.

The Trump administration has pledged $2 million in emergency aid and sent a three-person team to assess how best to respond given drastic cuts to U.S. foreign assistance.

On Friday, five bodies were recovered from the rubble in the capital Naypyitaw and the second-largest city of Mandalay, near the epicenter of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake March 28, authorities said. The last reported rescue came Wednesday, some 125 hours after the quake struck, when a man was saved from the wreckage of a hotel in Mandalay.

The quake also shook neighboring Thailand, bringing down a high-rise under construction in Bangkok, where recovery work continued Friday. Overall, 22 people have been found dead and 35 injured in Bangkok, primarily from the construction site.

Myanmar’s military seized power in 2021 from the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking what has turned into a civil war.

The quake worsened an already dire humanitarian crisis, with more than 3 million people displaced from their homes and nearly 20 million in need even before it hit, according to the United Nations.

As concerns grew that ongoing fighting could hamper humanitarian aid efforts, the military declared a temporary ceasefire Wednesday, through April 22. The announcement followed unilateral temporary ceasefires announced by armed resistance groups opposed to military rule.

On Thursday, however, there were renewed airstrikes in Kayah state, also known as Karenni, in eastern Myanmar, according to witnesses.

The military has said that it would still take “necessary” measures against resistance groups, if they use the ceasefire to regroup, train or launch attacks, and the groups have said they reserved the right to defend themselves.

Associated Press Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.

Russian medical volunteers give treatment to a patient in their make-shift tent opened as a medical center in the aftermath of Friday's earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo)

Thai army soldiers lined up for their duty at site of an under construction high-rise building that collapsed after an earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April, 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Morning joggers look at the at site of an under construction high-rise building that collapsed after an earthquake, as Thai army soldiers lined up for their duty in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April, 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

A rescue office Amman Sutthirat talks to media at site of an under construction high-rise building that collapsed after an earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April, 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

A notice board in Thai language shows , center top, number of victims (103) Deceased (15), Injured (9) and Under Tracking (79) at site of an under construction high-rise building that collapsed after an earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April, 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Russian medical volunteers gather near their make-shift tent opened as a medical center in the aftermath of Friday's earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo)

A person watches at site of an under construction high-rise building that collapsed after an earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, April, 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)