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There are no awards for acting like you care, but it’s still a good look — especially for a team that came in 3-9-1 in road series and 2-11 in its last 13 series overall, blowing save opportunities left and right and elevating making outs at the plate with runners in scoring position practically to an art form.
Five were treated at the ballpark, and six were transported to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
Cubs' Justin Steele puts a fitting capper on his June — yet another terrific start, still zero 'W's'
After a hard-luck no-decision Saturday in the Cubs’ 5-3 win against the Brewers, Steele has a dirty dozen starts this season — six of them in a sparkling June — without a victory on his record.
One has to seriously work hard to find compassion for the Cubs becoming one of the more (most?) disappointing teams of the season so far.
Pass the Blatz. Or the Schlitz. And keep ’em coming.
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But the win did nothing to change the fact that the night before, they’d stumbled to the halfway point of the season with a 4-3 loss that pushed their low-water mark to 37-44, seven games below .500.
Assad has been dealing with a strained right forearm extensor, the team revealed.
The Cubs fell to the Giants 4-3 on Wednesday.
Notes: Kyle Hendricks reached 10 years of service time on Wednesday.
Hendricks reaches 10 years of service time on Wednesday.
Steele held the Giants to two runs in 7 1/3 innings in the Cubs’ 5-4 loss Monday.
The Cubs have a 14-18 record in one-run games.
While he played, it seemed that happiness was all that eluded Sandberg. He has been through the fire — with his health, as a manager who resigned from a failing Phillies team in 2015 — and he is a different person now.
MLB announced Monday that it was suspending Mets pitcher Edwin Díaz after a sticky stuff check in the game Sunday against the Cubs.
Hoyer praised Crow-Armstrong for his contributions in the field and on the basepaths.
The Cubs dropped the series to the Mets and fell four games below .500.
Leiter is just the latest Cubs hurler to end up on the IL, further testing the team’s depth.
The Cubs were playing the Cardinals at Wrigley Field that weekend in a series that would mark a turning point in their playoff-drought-breaking season.
The young and talented reliever could be just what the Cubs need, if they can make a solid trade offer.
“Everything was working,” center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong said. “I liked seeing his cutter today a lot. There’s always a certain ease about how [Taillon] takes the mound.”