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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 19

David Frerker-Imagn Images The Cubs’ sloppy play leads to a 10-4 loss. Monday night’s game has an awful lot to unpack. If you are an impulsive reactor, I’d say today is a day to take a deep breath. Recall that this team has played terrific baseball over the first few weeks. The frustrating aspect to the start of this season has been that the losses have been like this. The Cubs were leadi...2025
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• Padres 10, Cubs 4: Another bullpen meltdown

Photo by Matt Thomas/San Diego Padres/Getty Images Things were going along fine, then... BOOM. Another homer by Michael Busch? Check. Another three-hit game from Pete Crow-Armstrong? Check. Solid starting pitching from Jameson Taillon? Check. Those things all went right Monday night in San Diego. Unfortunately, because of rough outings from three different Cubs relievers, that did not lead...2025
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• Watch: Michael Busch Homers in Third Straight Game
Michael Busch took advantage of the West Coast trip in April 2024, hitting a home run in five consecutive games. Now, he’s homered in three straight as he looks to miraculously recreate that historic streak. Busch has four home runs this season and continues to help keep the Cubs’ offense hot. He’s hitting the ball … The post Watch: Michael Busch Homers in Third Straight Game appeared first ...2025
• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, April 14 edition

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images A look back at the Cubs’ 4-2 record last week. Welcome back to “Three up, three down,” a review of the Cubs’ performance over the past week’s worth of games. The week was a success, with the Cubs taking four of six from two very good teams, the Rangers and Dodgers, and generally looking good doing it. The Cubs are 11-7 and still ha...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images The Cubs win 4-2 and take the series from the Dodgers in LA. When does being on the Sunday night national broadcast suck less? When you are in California. I mean, it is certainly possible the game would have been a Sunday “afternoon” game in Los Angeles. But for me over here in Florida, them playing a game that only ended around 10 p.m. local time wa...2025
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• Watch: Chicago Cubs Beat Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 to Take Series (Video Highlights)
The Chicago Cubs pounded the Los Angeles Dodgers 16-0 Saturday night at Chavez Ravine. A win on Sunday would give them the series win and a good start to a difficult West Coast road trip. Pete Crow-Armstrong broke out big, hitting two solo home runs, and Michael Busch chipped in with a solo shot to … The post Watch: Chicago Cubs Beat Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2 to Take Series (Video Highlights) ...2025
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• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, April 14 edition
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• Cubs 4, Dodgers 2: Pete Crow-Armstrong shows off in front of the home folks

Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images PCA hit two homers and a triple with his parents in attendance at Dodger Stadium. I told you the Cubs could win this series! The Cubs went into Dodger Stadium and with solid pitching and hitting took two of three from the defending World Series champions, winning Sunday. They got a strong outing from an unexpected source (Colin Rea) and a great offen...2025
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: The hits and home runs just kept on coming

Two of the Cubs’ home run heroes from Saturday night, Carson Kelly and Michael Busch | Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images It took a while, but the Cubs brought out the big bats at Dodger Stadium Saturday evening. The Cubs and Dodgers looked like they would be locked in a classic pitcher’s duel for the first five innings of this game. Ben Brown and Roki Sasaki were both dealing, and both teams flashe...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images It was a bummer of a day as the Cubs lose 6-2. The start to this season has been so exceptional that this game is a weird feeling. The Cubs did show a brief sign of life in the fourth inning and the game was tied after four. This game was all Rangers, though. Shōta Imanaga had an uncharacteristically bad day. He allowed a couple of homers and...2025
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• Cubs 7, Padres 1: Pitching, defense and three-run homers

Matt Marton-Imagn Images And a catch for the ages by Ian Happ. If you’ve been around baseball long enough, you probably remember today’s recap headline as a statement from longtime Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver when asked what wins baseball games. “Pitching, defense and three-run homers” was always Weaver’s response, and the Cubs got all three on another chilly Saturday afternoon a...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 8

Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Takin’ care of business: Cubs win 7-4. You know you’ve officially settled into the season when you get to that first ordinary win. Nothing spectacular. Nothing feels new about it. You didn’t overcome and kind of adversity. You looked at the schedule and the matchups. You thought, that could be competitive, but I think we’ll win. And then you just ...2025
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• Cubs Opening Day roster moves: Brad Keller added to 40-man, Cody Poteet DFA, Eli Morgan recalled

Brad Keller | Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The Cubs have set their roster as they open the North American portion of the 2025 season. Several of these moves have been telegraphed or put on social media over the last day or so, but Thursday morning the Cubs made the following roster moves official: Brad Keller has been selected and added to the 40-man roster To make room for Keller, reliever ...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ don’t make a habit of this

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Cubs lose to Diamondbacks in a game that doesn’t count but feels bad nonetheless. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, s...2025
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• It's quiet

So, are you enjoying your 3-day, 4-day, 5-day holiday weekend?This is the time of the year that it gets quiet in my neighborhood (save for the forthcoming fireworks). Everyone clears out for the lake or the campsite or whatever people that I can't relate to do. I went for a walk earlier today and saw one guy trimming the curb and two teenage girls playing tennis. That was it.I don't have th...2023
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"Two of the Cubs’ home run heroes from Saturday night, Carson Kelly and Michael Busch | Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images It took a while, but the Cubs brought out the big bats at Dodger Stadium Saturday evening."

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"Pete Crow-Armstrong can get some more time in Triple-A to start this season or Crow-Armstrong can play center while Bellinger plays first base and give all three starting outfielders a day off from playing defense from time-to-tim while Michael Busch (or someone else) plays first base."

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"The Dodgers are going to promote prospect Michael Busch, reports Jorge Castillo of the Los Angeles Times."

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"The Dodgers have selected catcher Diego Cartaya, infielder Michael Busch and outfielders Andy Pages and Jonny DeLuca to the 40-man roster, per a team announcement."

• Three up, three down: An update on the Cubs, April 14 edition
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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• Cub Tracks’ blankety-blank

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs unlimbered themselves at the Dodgers’ expense and look to steal away with the meatloaf this evening. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball...2025
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• Watch: Michael Busch Blasts Opposite Field Home Run
The Cubs didn’t score in the series opener against the Dodgers, but Michael Busch made sure that wasn’t the case on Saturday night. He launched a 2-2 fastball into the left-field bleachers, marking the first home run Rōki Sasaki has allowed in his rookie season. Busch was drafted by the Dodgers in 2019 and made … The post Watch: Michael Busch Blasts Opposite Field Home Run appeared first on ...2025
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• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Boyd was throwing a real nice game until Edman interrupted it with a three-run homer. Tommy Edman has been a Cubs nemesis dating back to his days with the Cardinals. He entered Friday night’s game batting .280/.320/.500 with 13 home runs in 68 career games against the Cubs — by far his most homers against any team (next most: seven against the Pirates ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15
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• Padres 8, Cubs 7: This space intentionally left blank

David Banks-Imagn Images That was one of the weirdest games you will ever see. I’m going to put this right out there first thing, and then get to the recap of this bizarre game. You might disagree with my conclusion here, but I think Craig Counsell made a mistake in the ninth inning. After batting for Matt Shaw with Michael Busch, Counsell put Gage Workman at third and left Justin Turner a...2025
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• Pitching, miscues result in second loss for Padres

Nick Pivetta | Matt Marton-Imagn Images Nick Pivetta lasts just three innings in second start for San Diego For the second game in as many days, a San Diego Padres starting pitcher struggled with command, walked in a run and suffered a loss at the hands of the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Padres starter Nick Pivetta labored through three innings of work. He threw 76 pitches over that spa...2025
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• Cubs 7, Padres 1: Pitching, defense and three-run homers
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• Cubs 3, Padres 1: Shōta shines on a cloudy, chilly Wrigley afternoon

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Cubs welcomed fans back to Wrigley Field with a win. Friday’s home Cubs opener at Wrigley Field was typical of so many over the years: Cloudy, wind blowing off the lake, temperature in the mid-40s. The capacity house of 40,244 was there to be entertained and to see a win, and they certainly got both. Shōta Imanaga, perhaps the most popular current C...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 19
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• Padres 10, Cubs 4: Another bullpen meltdown
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 18
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 17

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The Cubs bounce back with an offensive explosion and win 16-0. This game almost became as silly to write about in the good direction as the previous two games did in the wrong direction. The subtle difference here is that this one was a 2-0 game through six innings. The final score is not indicative of how much of a nail-biter as this one was for tho...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 16

Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images The offense was stifled in Los Angeles, as the Cubs lose 3-0. This is a frustrating one to write. That cover photo should be Matthew Boyd. Coming off of two strong starts against quality opponents, in his third start he drew the defending World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers. And that’s not any ordinary defending champion, that team is a poor man’s All-Star team...2025
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• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15
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• Rangers 6, Cubs 2: Sometimes it’s just not your day

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The Cubs offense got shut down on a very cold afternoon. Dire weather forecasts of all-day rain made it seem very unlikely, early this morning, that this game would be played. But the rain fell mostly south of the city — it just sprinkled a couple of times at the ol’ ballyard — and so the Cubs and Rangers were able to complete their three-game series...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 13

Photo by Abigail Dean/Getty Images Steele dominates in a 7-0 Cubs win. In the nine years now that I’ve been writing Heroes and Goats, and with the assistance of social media, the strangest thing I’ve learned is that some number of you experience your fandom by being angry a lot. There is some amount of frustration and lashing out that is part of the way you consume the baseball season. On...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 12

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Cubs fade away in an 8-7 loss to the Padres. I’ve written many times about glass half full/glass half empty. Your mileage may vary, but my glass is still overflowing. In the last nine days, the Cubs played eight games. They won six of them. Definitely should have won another and probably should have won this one too. This one will get lumped in wit...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 19
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• Cubs 4, Dodgers 2: Pete Crow-Armstrong shows off in front of the home folks
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 7

Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images The Cubs pummel the A’s as they open their new home. On Sunday, the Cubs missed an opportunity to have a signature win. They could have taken three of four from a legitimate playoff contender, in their ballpark and even the season record at three wins and three losses. We’ve seen so many bullpen collapses in recent years, particularly early season ones, that it...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 5

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images A thoroughly entertaining Cubs win. I’d like to thank the Cubs for playing a terrific game. A little behind the scenes, I went to bed Friday night rather than stay up with the Cubs game. I was up a little before 6 locally in Florida to write about Friday night’s Diamondbacks beatdown of the Cubs. I had a long day here that included a local renaissance fai...2025
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• 2025 Cubs player profiles: A few final words

The 2025 player profiles are complet and the projections averaged. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment. We’ve covered the 40-man roster of the Chicago Cubs, as they stand as of this moment. Nico Hoerner is going to miss the opener Japan, but we have yet to attain wisdom as to his Stateside Opening Day status. That might or might not leave a temporary spot open, which would allow the Cub...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Does Spring Training mean anything?

Jason Sherbert The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if the Cubs hot Spring Training means anything for the regular season. It’s Wednesday night here at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Please come in from the cold. We’ve got a fire going on in here. Let us take your coat. There are still a few tables available...2025
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• Cub Tracks lets it ride

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs won their third spring game and go for a fourth against Texas. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in wri...2025
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• BCB After Dark: Why did the Cubs DFA Alexander Canario?

Alexander Canario hits a home run against the Marlins in April | Patrick Gorski-Imagn Images This is not a trick question Welcome to your late week, late night, indie coffee shop where the drinks are running all night and whether you need something to warm your body up after a brutally cold Chicago week or something to cool down after getting fired up watching the Cubs beat the Dodgers in ...2025
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• Cubs 12, Dodgers 4: Welcome to our robo-ump overlords

Major League Baseball MLB’s ABS challenge system test was used for the first time. The Cubs — or, more accurately, a bunch of miscellaneous guys wearing Cubs uniforms — defeated the Dodgers in the 2025 Spring Training opener 12-4 Thursday afternoon in Glendale, Arizona. That wasn’t the most important story of the game, as you surely know that Spring Training wins and losses are pretty well...2025
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• Cub Tracks’ goal tending

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs have their eyes on the ultimate prize. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and ...2025
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• Cubs News: Cubs sign Cody Bellinger

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The long-awaited deal has happened as Cody Bellinger returns on a three-year deal with opt-outs The Chicago Cubs and Cody Bellinger have agreed to a three-year, $80 million deal for the outfielder/first baseman to return to Chicago, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN. BREAKING: Centerfielder Cody Bellinger and the Chicago Cubs are in agreement on a three-...2024
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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 8, Dodgers 1: Two out of three is... actually really good

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs waited out rain and pummeled the visitors from L.A. The Cubs beat the Dodgers convincingly Sunday afternoon, 8-1, taking two of three from the team that was supposed to just rip through everyone this year and dominate the sport on the way to a World Series championship. Oh, that’s not how it works? Right, exactly: That’s not how it works. And t...2024
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• Cubs 6, Cardinals 2: The complaint department is closed!

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images The Cubs gave St. Louis an early lead, then came back and won. After Saturday’s debacle, the way Sunday’s game began did not put any Cubs fan in a good mood. They stranded RISP in the second inning, then Justin Steele made one bad pitch to Masyn Winn with a runner on and the Cardinals led 2-0. Thankfully, the Cubs played the rest of the game the way the...2024
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• Cubs 5, Diamondbacks 3: Hayden Wesneski saves the day

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports The righthander, just called up from Iowa, shut the door on the D-backs. The Cubs summoned bullpen reinforcements from Triple-A Iowa for Wednesday’s game, having had almost all their relievers throw a lot of pitches over the last few games, including two extra-inning games in Arizona. That was not only a smart thing to do, it paid off in the rubber game of this...2024
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• Cubs 8, Rangers 6: The power barrage continues

Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs sent more baseballs out of the yard Sunday at Sloan Park. MESA, Arizona — The Cubs hosted many of the regulars from the defending World Series champion Rangers and put the hurt on them, hitting two home runs and smashing several other extra-base hits in an 8-6 victory. Since March 9, including split-squad games, the Cubs are 8-1. (Not that spring wins...2024
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: The hits and home runs just kept on coming
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• Cubs 9, Rockies 8: Sweep!

Photo by Griffin Quinn/Getty Images The Cubs fought off the weather and a Rockies rally to complete the three-game sweep. The weather outside was frightful. And, for a while, so was the Cubs’ bullpen. But in the end, the Cubs hung on Wednesday night for a 9-8 win over the Rockies, their fourth straight victory. It rained — and snowed — most of the day in Chicago and the start of the game w...2024
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• Preseason Prep - March 16, 2025
Nolan Schanuel If you play in a super deep league and find yourself desperate at the Corner Infield spot, consider Schanuel. He had a sneaky good 2024, displaying some of the best discipline and contact skills in all of baseball. His .343 OBP is driven by a 11.2% walk rate, thanks to only whiffing at 14% of the time (96th Percentile) and only chasing 21.5% of the time (91st Percentile). Even thoug...2025
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• Padres 10, Cubs 4: Another bullpen meltdown
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• Cubs 4, Dodgers 2: Pete Crow-Armstrong shows off in front of the home folks
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• Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Dodgers preview, Sunday 4/13, 6:10 CT

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images The Cubs go for the series win. ICYMI, here’s today’s bad news about Justin Steele. Sunday notes... GOING FOR MEATLOAF: With a victory tonight, the Cubs will win the series, two games to one, just as they did in their visits to Dodger Stadium the past two years. They have won three straight series at Los Angeles against the Dodgers only once, winning two of three...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 17
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: The hits and home runs just kept on coming
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15
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• Cubs 4, Diamondbacks 3: You keep me hangin’ on

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images The Cubs had another shaky ninth inning, but a great play by Dansby Swanson nailed down the win. I’m gonna make a little teeny tiny suggestion here. Maybe it’s not such a great idea for the Cubs to keep signing former Astros relief pitchers. We went through a roller-coaster ride with Hector Neris last year until he was let go, and the Ryan Pressly Era hasn’t begun...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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• Cubs 4, Astros 3: Getting the job done

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports Dansby Swanson’s three-run homer highlighted a four-run first inning that the Cubs made hold up for another win. It wasn’t the best of games. Cubs hitters struck out 12 times. Some sketchy defense helped lead to a Houston run. The Cubs had only one hit after the fourth inning. And yet, the Cubs put a large crooked number on the board in the first inning f...2024
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• 2024 Cubs Convention: It’s all about Cody Bellinger

Cody Bellinger celebrates a hit in August | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Will it finally move the Cubs front office to make a big deal? A week ago it looked like fans might be bringing pitchforks and torches to Cubs Convention. In fact, 24 hours before the 37th annual winter gathering of Cubs fans kicked off in downtown Chicago I was wondering what the turnout would look like. A st...2024
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