Willson Contreras homered and drove in three runs to back the solid pitching of Jon Lester as the Chicago Cubs beat the Atlanta Braves 8-3 in game one of their four game series at Wrigley Field Monday night. Jason Heyward added a solo homer for the Cubs who increased their lead in the NL Central to one full game over Milwaukee. Lester improved to 7-5 with the victory allowing two unearned runs with seven strikeouts. The Cubs strung together five straight hits in a five run bottom of the fifth to break the game open. Game two is Tuesday night with Max Fried (8-3) pitching for the Braves and Adbert Alzolay (1-0) making his first start for the Cubs. You can catch all the action on Lite 103 WAKO beginning with the pregame show at 6:30 p.m. Central Time 7:30 Eastern.