Chicago Cubs get shut out 6-0 by the Atlanta Braves, keeping them from sweeping the 3-game series

Ian Anderson and the Atlanta Braves are going home after a successful road trip.

All they want is more of the same.

“Hopefully we’re as hot as the weather there,” a grinning Anderson said. “It’s going to be hot.”

Anderson pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning, Matt Olson hit three doubles and the Braves beat the Chicago Cubs 6-0 on Sunday at Wrigley Field, salvaging the finale of their weekend series.

Travis d’Arnaud and Michael Harris II homered for the defending World Series champion Braves, who avoided their first three-game losing streak of the season. Next up is a seven-game homestand against the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Braves, who arrived in Chicago with a 14-game winning streak, went 21-8 in a stretch of 29 straight games against teams that were under .500 at the time of the matchup.

“It’s easy to say you should beat these teams, but, man, you’re a hit away every night from not,” manager Brian Snitker said. “So it’s good when you can.”

Anderson (6-3) struck out six and walked two in a season-high 6⅔ innings. The right-hander improved to 3-0 with a 4.37 ERA in four June starts.

“We lost the first two here, so that was a big emphasis to try to get it done today, to kind of put a cap on what was a good trip,” Anderson said.

Ian Happ had two of the six hits for the Cubs, who dropped to 3-12 in their last 15 games.

While Anderson breezed through the Cubs lineup for much of the day, Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks (2-6) struggled. The right-hander dropped to 1-4 with a 6.81 ERA in eight career games against the Braves.

“I have to go back and look, but a lot of the replays looked like stuff in the middle of the zone,” manager David Ross said. “Just leaking back. Trying to go in, pulling it middle.”

With two out and Dansby Swanson aboard in the first, Hendricks walked Olson before d’Arnaud reached Waveland Avenue with a 433-foot drive to left for a three-run homer.

Harris led off the fifth with his third homer, and consecutive doubles by Swanson, Austin Riley and Olson made it 6-0 with one out. Olson’s hit chased Hendricks, who is winless in his last six starts.

“I know he wants to be as consistent as he possibly can and puts in the work for sure,” Ross said. “Right now just repeating that outing to outing has just been a little bit of a struggle.”

Adrian Sampson pitched 4⅔ innings of one-hit ball in relief of Hendricks. He struck out five and walked none.

“He was in cruise control the entire time,” Ross said.

The Cubs loaded the bases in the eighth against Jesse Chavez, but A.J. Minter escaped the jam when he retired Patrick Wisdom on a fly to right.

OF Seiya Suzuki (sprained left ring finger) is slated to travel to Arizona on Monday to continue his rehab at the team’s spring training facility. … RHP Marcus Stroman (shoulder inflammation) threw off the mound in the Cubs bullpen before the game. … INF David Bote (left shoulder surgery) had two hits and three RBIs in a rehab appearance for Triple-A Iowa.

Cubs RHP Caleb Kilian (0-1, 8.00 ERA) makes his third major-league start Monday night in the opener of a four-game series in Pittsburgh. RHP JT Brubaker (0-7, 4.50 ERA) pitches for the Pirates.

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