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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, May 27 edition

Katie Stratman-Imagn Images The Cubs had a very good road trip, though it took some crazy rallies to do it. This edition of “Three up, three down” is running on Tuesday rather than its usual Monday slot due to Monday’s Memorial Day holiday. The games included here are last week’s six-game road trip. Monday’s game against the Rockies will be included in next week’s edition. The Cubs’ 4-2 ro...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 54

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs win the series opener 3-1 over the Rockies. I did secretly hope this series would be a little more “boring.” In one manner of looking at things, things were boring. The Rockies didn’t put up a ton of fight. More, they just hung around all day. Of course, that means that in the other way of looking at things, it wasn’t boring. Every p...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 53

Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Cubs comeback magic continues in an 11-8 win. On your Memorial Day, while you are remembering the fallen heroes that make the life that you are used to possible, how about also thinking of a couple of other blessings? First, you aren’t a Reds fan. The Reds were a trendy pick the last couple of years as a team on the upswing. That fandom wakes up this Mon...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 52

Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images The Cubs stumble early again and come up short on a comeback in a 6-4 loss. It’s been years since I was anywhere close to a “watch 162 games closely” person. There definitely was a point in life where if at all possible I was either watching or listening. A combination of parenting and adulting along with a dose of really bad Cubs baseball pushed me to so...2025
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• Cubs roster move: Julian Merryweather designated for assignment, Brooks Kriske selected

Brooks Kriske in Spring Training with the Cubs | Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images That was quick. In Friday’s game against the Reds, Julian Merryweather had yet another bad outing. Since beginning the 2025 season with a 2.08 ERA in his first 14 appearances, Merryweather posted an ERA of 14.29 and WHIP of 3.177 (!) over his most recent seven games, with two home runs in just 5⅔ innings. The outing...2025
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• Cubs DFA Julian Merryweather, Promote RHP Brooks Kriske
You know how the peanut gallery always calls to DFA a reliever every time he has a tough game? Well, the Cubs may have been listening last night. After allowing a pair of earned runs on two hits and a walk while recording only two outs, righty Julian Merryweather has been designated for assignment. The … The post Cubs DFA Julian Merryweather, Promote RHP Brooks Kriske appeared first on ....2025
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, May 27 edition
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 51

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images PCA keys a come-from-behind 13-6 win. For a minute there, you thought the stories would be the bad first inning for Matthew Boyd and the continuing implosion of Julian Merryweather. These aren’t those Cubs. This team has so much fight in it and so a 6-2 early deficit became a 13-6 win. Eleven unanswered runs over the game’s final three innings. I’ll mention...2025
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• Cubs 13, Reds 6: Pete Crow-Armstrong does it again

Photo by Jeff Dean/Getty Images The Cubs center fielder had his second six-RBI game... in a week. This Cubs team is starting to do really special things. Seriously, the Cubs had no business winning Friday’s game, not after Matthew Boyd had a rare bad outing, not after Julian Merryweather had another lousy relief appearance, not after they went into the seventh inning trailing by four. And ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 50

Photo by Jared Lennon/Getty Images A 2-1 win takes the game and gives the Cubs a series win in Miami. It was a series of contradictions. Monday night, the Cubs lost the opener of the series. The Cubs have excelled in series openers this year. They lost in large part because early, middle and late game, the pitching staff failed. The offense had a good night, scoring seven, but lost. This ...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Who’s the best reliever?

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks you which reliever you trust the most. It’s Tuesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the swinging-est spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. So glad you decided to stop by. You’re always welcome here. I’m sure we can find a table for you. Let us know if you need anything. The show wi...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 48

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Some good, a lot of bad in the Cubs 8-7 loss in Miami. By my count, this is the first time I’ve picked a picture that included new third base coach Quintin Berry. Former third base coach Willie Harris was particularly expressive and photogenic over at third in years gone by and when a photographer captured one of those, I liked to grab those photos. Thi...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 44

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs offense was ineffective in a 3-1 loss. Worried is the wrong word. But the offensive malaise is lingering a bit longer than I expected. The Cubs have scored 27 runs over their last eight games. I don’t think there is any question that the injury to Ian Happ is part of the equation. The tailing off of Kyle Tucker is a piece of it. It’...2025
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• Hanshin Tigers 3, Cubs 0: Welcome to Japan, Cubs fans!

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images The Cubs offense was mostly silent in this exhibition game. But there were lots of other things to see and do in Tokyo. TOKYO — The Cubs took the field at the Tokyo Dome Saturday afternoon (Japan time) against the Hanshin Tigers and fell flat. The Tigers’ top prospect, 20-year-old lefthander Keito Mombetsu threw five perfect innings against Cubs hitters, l...2025
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 148

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images The Cubs falter late, losing 6-5 to the Rockies. This feeling this morning, it’s different than it has been in a while. The beauty of an in-season vacation is that I was out of contact during the Cleveland series. Because of that, I’m having trouble remembering the last time that things were so frustrating that I’m looking for where the ride ends so th...2024
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"Julian Merryweather was given the assignment of finishing things up."

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", Julian Merryweather and Hector Neris, who combined for four shutout innings, allowed three hits and a walk and struck out five."

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"Check out this play by Hoerner in the third [VIDEO] Julian Merryweather threw a 1-2-3 seventh and retired Contreras to lead off the eighth, at which point Mark Leiter Jr."

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"The move creates a vacancy on the 40-man roster for reliever Julian Merryweather, who was activated from the 60-day injured list between games of today’s doubleheader with the Orioles."

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"The Toronto Blue Jays have placed closer Julian Merryweather on the 10-day injured list with a strained left oblique."

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"The group of Julian Merryweather, Hector Perez, Andrew Sopko, Trent Thornton and Jacob Waguespack suddenly have an opportunity in front of them."

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"It’s expected that Indians right-hander Julian Merryweather will be the player they eventually send to the Blue Jays to complete this week’s Josh Donaldson trade, Shi Davidi of Sportsnet reports."

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"Cleveland has also selected the contracts of right-hander Julian Merryweather and infielders Willi Castro, Yu Chang and Eric Stamets."

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• Cubs Designate Julian Merryweather For Assignment
The Cubs announced they’ve designated reliever Julian Merryweather for assignment. He’ll be replaced on the active and 40-man rosters by Brooks Kriske, whose contract was selected from Triple-A. More to come....2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 49

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images The offense explodes behind a strong performance from Jameson Taillon. In almost all instances, the “must win” label is hyperbole in baseball. That’s largely the stuff of football where a game or two decides everything. The last couple of years, a few blown games were the difference between in and out of the playoffs. So it’s hard to split the hairs. Th...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 48
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 47

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images A 6-2 win and a sweep of the White Sox made for a good Sunday. It feels fitting for Pete Crow-Armstrong to be right in the middle of the defining inning of this game. He scored two of the first three runs in the game. He had a hand in the other scoring, though he doesn’t get an RBI for his aggressive baserunning and the opportunity (however i...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 44
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 40

Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images A 6-5 win for the Cubs. I imagine the words “because baseball” will be typed and read hundreds of times after this one. A rookie pitcher, a formidable opponent, a three game losing streak. Not the recipe for a win. Then Ian Happ gets a night off. Pete Crow-Armstrong in the leadoff spot? Justin Turner fifth? If we’re being honest, you weren’t confident. This was...2025
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, May 5 edition

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images The Cubs had a good week, but that was tempered by the likely loss of Shōta Imanaga for a while. We don’t yet know what will happen with Shōta Imanaga, who will have an MRI today to determine the damage to his left hamstring. At that point we’ll know more about how long the Cubs will miss him. You know, this team does have some depth. When they lost Justin...2025
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, May 27 edition
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• Cubs roster move: Julian Merryweather designated for assignment, Brooks Kriske selected
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, May 19 edition

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The Cubs had an excellent homestand and remained in first place in the NL Central. The Cubs began a stretch of 21 games against teams with sub-.500 records by going 5-1 against the Marlins and White Sox at Wrigley Field. With 15 games remaining in that stretch, they would need to go 10-5 to meet what I thought was a goal for a good team, going 15-6. I be...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 52
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 45

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs win 13-3 behind PCA and some sloppy White Sox play. The Cubs continue to excel in the first game of each series, particularly at Wrigley Field. I still suspect most of this is random sequencing. It’s ironic, because the way the Cubs can make other pitching staffs work, I might expect them to do well at the end of a series. But that h...2025
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• Cubs 5, Marlins 4: Justin Turner walks it off

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images That is a headline you likely did not expect to read this year. Maybe I should write that players are “done” more often. No matter what happens with the remainder of Justin Turner’s tenure with the Cubs, we will always have the wonderful memory of his walkoff double — his first extra-base hit of the year! — that gave the Cubs a stirring comeback 5-4 walkoff w...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 41

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Cubs tease a series win but come up short in a 6-2 loss. Today’s shocking fact is that the Cubs weren’t quite good enough against the Mets in New York in a series where they were without Justin Steele, Shōta Imanaga and Ian Happ. Ryan Pressly hasn’t worked out at closer and the Cubs are at the tail end of what has been and probably will remain the tou...2025
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• Cubs 6, Mets 5: Cade Horton’s debut is a success

Photo by Kent J. Edwards/Getty Images The Cubs survived two Brett Baty homers and defeated the Mets. Cade Horton’s ERA (6.75) after one MLB game doesn’t show it, but his debut Saturday against a very good Mets team was a success. His only real mistake in four innings was a three-run homer by Brett Baty. (Baty homered again later off Julian Merryweather.) Horton struck out five and the Cubs...2025
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• Peralta shines, offense does just enough in Brewers’ 4-0 victory over Cubs

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images Big hits from unlikely sources get Brewers over the line Box Score After two ugly losses to their biggest rival, the Brewers turned to their ace, Freddy Peralta, to stop their three-game skid. Peralta responded with six fabulous innings, followed by three more good ones from the bullpen, and Milwaukee’s struggling offense did just enough — and capitalized on Ch...2025
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• Brewers 4, Cubs 0: Shōta Imanaga injured in dull loss

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images This was not a good Sunday for the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs lost to the Brewers 4-0 Sunday afternoon, but that’s not the story of the game. The story is the hamstring injury suffered by Shōta Imanaga, who had matched Freddy Peralta with zeroes until there were two out in the bottom of the sixth. Here’s the situation. The Brewers had runners on first and seco...2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers vs. Chicago Cubs

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images Brewers welcome the Cubbies to town in big rivalry matchup The Milwaukee Brewers are set to welcome the Chicago Cubs to Milwaukee for the first series between the two rivals in 2025. The Crew is coming off a lengthy 10-game, 11-day road trip that took them through San Francisco, St. Louis, and Chicago. After starting the trip 1-5 against the Giants and Cardin...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Is Matt Shaw coming back?

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if you think Matt Shaw will return to be the Cubs’ third baseman this season. It’s another week here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re so glad to see you. Come on in and sit with us. Your name is on the guest list. We still have a few good ...2025
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• Cubs 3, Brewers 2: The comeback Cubs do it again

Mike Tauchman scores the eventual winning run in the eighth inning Wednesday afternoon | Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports This game had just about everything, and the best part: A Cubs win! Wednesday’s game at Wrigley Field reminded me why I love baseball so much. Gorgeous weather. Meaningful baseball between two rivals for a playoff spot. Back-and-forth, great pitching, lousy pitching, good f...2023
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• Cubs 6, Tigers 4: The never-quit Cubs pull one out

Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports After a devastating grand slam tied things up, the Cubs got to work and came out on top. All’s well that ends well, and the Cubs ended this series well with a 6-4 win over the Tigers, but I’ll ask you the question, and you can vote in the poll. After Jameson Taillon loaded the bases in the sixth inning, then retired the next two hitters, would you have taken...2023
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• Cubs 6, White Sox 2: Sweep!

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The Cubs got timely hitting, solid pitching and good defense and swept the South Siders. Perhaps now, the Cubs will go on a long winning streak, like the Cardinals and Twins have already this year. The Cubs defeated the White Sox 6-2 on a beautiful, if a bit chilly, May afternoon at Wrigley Field. That gave them a sweep of the three-game series and a 5-1...2025
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• Cubs 10, Red Sox 4: Cody Bellinger is en fuego!
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs brought out the long ball — and a lot more hits — and evened up the series. There is nothing that says more about what the Chicago Cubs should do going forward than what happened in their 10-4 win over the Red Sox Saturday. Cody Bellinger, who has now homered five times in his last six games, hit a grand slam to cap a six-run inning. Marcus Strom...2023
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• Cubs 8, Braves 6: Swingin’ in the rain

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs bats came alive on a really bad weather day at the ol’ ballpark. It rained all morning and afternoon in Chicago, and at Wrigley Field, and I’ll have a bit more to say about that later. Keeping with the spirit of the day, the Cubs rained down hits and home runs and evened up the series against the Braves with an 8-6 victory. The Cubs did not was...2023
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• Cubs 4, Rockies 3: Sweep!

Matt Marton-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs just need to keep winning, and good things will follow. Another day, another comeback win for the Chicago Cubs, and they continue to control their own destiny for the postseason. Patrick Wisdom’s two-run homer in the sixth gave the Cubs the lead, and they held on for a 4-3 win over the Rockies, sweeping the three-game series. The one-run win moved the ...2023
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• Cubs 6, Royals 4: A tale of two games

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs appeared to be on their way to an easy win... until they had to hang on for dear life. Drip... drip... drip... That was what today’s 6-4 Cubs win over the Royals felt like, after the Cubs zoomed out to a 6-1 lead after four innings. KC runs scored off just about every Cubs reliever until Adbert Alzolay finally put a stop to that in the ninth inning wit...2023
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• Cubs 9, Rangers 5: Now that’s more like it

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Cubs rallied in the ninth and finally put one in the win column. The Cubs had trouble scoring runs all series against the Rangers, and then they worked a bunch of ninth-inning walks into a game-winning rally. The Cubs thus won their first game of 2024, 9-5 over the defending World Series champions. It was not easy, though. The Cubs began this game wel...2024
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• Cubs 13, Reds 6: Pete Crow-Armstrong does it again
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• Cubs 6, White Sox 2: Sweep!
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 35

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Another frustrating Sunday, the Cubs lose 4-0. When does something arbitrary become something significant? If you haven’t been keeping track, the Cubs are now just 1-5 on Sundays. I don’t particularly think it is a getaway day issue. They are 3-3 in midweek series-enders. So it is at least a passing thought that there is something with Sundays. It sure w...2025
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• Dodgers 6, Cubs 3: Let’s have an overreaction party!

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images As a Dodgers official I rode down in an elevator with after the game said, “It’s just two games.” TOKYO — You could look at it the way I noted below the headline. Or you could look at the Cubs’ 6-3 loss to the Dodgers at the Tokyo Dome, a sweep the Dodgers completed without two of their best players (Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman) and utterly panic as t...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Who should close for the Cubs?

Hodge pitches the ninth inning against the Reds in September | Matt Marton-Imagn Images The Cubs will head to Japan on Wednesday Welcome to your late week, late night indie coffee shop where we are listening to some easy going tunes while we serve up all your favorite beverages. If you’re looking for a local craft beer we’ve got you covered. If a cup of tea or decaf coffee is your pleasure...2025
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• 2024 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 113

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images The Cubs fail to protect their lead and lose 5-4. Heavy sigh. Once again, the Cubs had things in position to win a game and let it get away. That will be the enduring memory of this season. The crushing number of blown leads late has derailed this team over and over again. The Cubs had the opportunity to get back to three under .500. The last time they r...2024
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• Cubs 4, Giants 0: Kyle Hendricks throws a vintage Professor game, four outs short of a no-hitter
Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports Class was most definitely in session Saturday evening in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO — Is it too early to say “I told you so”? Maybe, but I’m saying it anyway. I told you Kyle Hendricks would come back and throw like The Professor again. Was Saturday’s brilliant eight-inning, one-hit outing a one-off? Possibly, but I don’t think so. Hendricks was, as the ...2023
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