Cubs sweep Rockies on perfect homestand

CHICAGO -- Alfonso Soriano homered, Jim Edmonds drove in two runs and the Chicago Cubs beat the reeling Colorado Rockies, 5-3, Sunday to complete a perfect seven-game homestand.

Chicago also started the new month by finishing a four-game sweep of the defending National League champions and sending them to their seventh straight loss.

Chicago is 26-8 at Wrigley Field after wrapping up its first perfect homestand of at least seven games since April 14-26, 1970.

Edmonds tripled off the center-field wall in the second, drove an RBI double off the ivy in left in the fourth and walked with the bases loaded in the fifth to make it 4-2. Soriano made it 5-3 with a solo shot in the sixth -- his 13th homer of the season and his second in as many games. Aramis Ramirez had two singles and a double as the Cubs (36-21) matched their longest win streak since they won seven straight from June 22-29.

The injury-plagued Rockies are on their worst slide since they dropped eight in a row over that same span. Colorado is 17 games below .500 for the first time since they finished 67-95 in 2005.