<p>A week ago, with the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/cubs" >Cubs</a> buried in an ever-increasing avalanche of pitching injuries, shortstop Dansby Swanson unveiled an interjection that could only come out of his native Georgia.</p><p>“Holy catfish, this is pretty crazy.”</p><p>Well, there aren’t any better words to describe what happened a week later, the Cubs’ bats showing they’re very much back to life at a hot, windy Wrigley Field, where they launched a baker’s dozen home runs in two days against the Padres.</p><p>Swanson accounted for five of them, including a trio that drove in eight runs in Wednesday’s sweep-completing 23-3 slaughter.</p><div class="Enhancement" data-align-center><div class="Enhancement-item"> <div class="ExternalContent-wrapper" > <div class="TweetUrl"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">GRAND SLAM<br>THIRD HOMER OF THE GAME<br><br>DANSBY SWANSON IS 🔥🔥🔥 <a href="https://t.co/z88J0AC6vQ">pic.twitter.com/z88J0AC6vQ</a></p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href="https://x.com/MLB/status/2072421952195617134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </div> </div> </div></div><p>The once-slumping shortstop is on some kind of heater, one really never equaled in franchise history, his 26 RBIs over the course of the last 10 games a new club record and the first such occurrence in baseball since Joe DiMaggio in 1939.</p><p>Holy catfish, indeed.</p><p>“We never have baseball figured out, and this tells you that,” manager Craig Counsell said after the game. “He probably went through the roughest patch of his career, and on the other side of it is the best stretch of his career. You figure it out.