 On May 12, 2009, Scales hit his first major league home run off of Edwin Moreno of the San Diego Padres.On May 14, to further his case to stay in the bigs, Scales hit 2 doubles while driving in 4 runs in the Cubs' win over the Padres.He recorded a 6-game hit streak immediately after being called up, but that streak was lost on May 16.