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Game 87 Recap: Pirates 4, Cubs 2

What You Need to Know: For the first three innings, the sides traded zeros. Then came the fourth inning, and they started trading some other integers. Pittsburgh one, thanks to a ground out. Cubs two, via back-to-back home runs. Then Pittsburgh came back with a three-run sixth. Then they went back to trading zeros for the […]

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Game 85 Recap: Brewers 11, Cubs 2

What You Need To Know: Well, “need” would be a funny word choice for this one. The Cubs got stomped. Mike Montgomery didn’t have anything. Couldn’t locate his curve, hitters sat on the fastball and pretty much streaked it so hard the spray chart would have looked something like a Jackson Pollock painting. Jack Leathersich…or Seatherlich, […]

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Game 84 Recap: Cubs 7, Rays 3

What You Need to Know John Lackey wasn’t terrible, giving up three runs in six innings. Meanwhile, the Cubs couldn’t catch a break with every line drive finding a glove and every deep fly coming just short of the wall. After six innings of BABIP-related frustration, Jon Jay tied the game with a three-run dinger, […]

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Game 83 Recap: Rays 6, Cubs 5

Things were lining up perfectly today for the easiest recap intro in the history of Baseball Prospectus: Cubs declare independence from .500 mark. It was almost too perfect. And then the Cubs went and declared independence in the wrong direction. It was like fighting the Revolutionary War only to declare “Wannabe” our National Anthem. What […]

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Game 81 Recap: Reds 5, Cubs 3

What you need to know:  Jackson Stephens, a 23-year-old pitcher making his MLB debut, barely outdueled Eddie Butler this afternoon—more with his bat than his arm. In the fourth inning, Stephens delivered a two-out, bases loaded single that gave the Reds a 4-3 lead. They didn’t give it back. Stephens battled through just five innings and […]