The Milwaukee Brewers are the most impressive playoff team this season. No, that’s not an exaggeration. It’s the truth. Granted, the Brewers were never the “sexy” team or the team with the most elite talent. Still, they managed to win their division and leave the rest of their NL Central rivals behind. On Wednesday, Milwaukee […]
Yesterday’s weekend series on Chicago’s south side ended in disappointment for the A’s, but now they have a chance to redeem themselves on the north side with another three-game sweep of the Cubs. Today will be a battle of the rookies on the mound, with Joey Estes taking the ball against Shota Imanaga – one […]
Last year, the Cubs played the Athletics in Oakland in April when the A’s were on their way to a 12-50 start. The Cubs won the series, defeating the A’s 16-3. Oakland lost 112 games. I’m here to tell you that the A’s are better this year. Much better. In May/June as a whole they […]
We’ve almost come full circle on the 2024 season. The Cubs’ first home series took place on April 1, 2 and 3 at Wrigley Field against the Rockies, and the Cubs won the series 26-10 against the visitors from Colorado. That sounds good, but the third of those games, a 9-8 victory, foreshadowed problems in […]
Michael Busch, whom the Cubs signed from the Dodgers in the winter in exchange for young players Jackson Ferris and Zyhir Hope, has been in a terrible crisis in recent weeks. Perhaps Busch’s desire to show the Dodgers what they had given up helped him break out of that situation. He hit a home run, […]
Monday notes … THE NON-HIT REPORT: The Cubs have a total of eight hits in their last three games. That’s the lowest number of hits in three games since 1901. The three previous times they had eight hits were: May 11-13, 1902: Losing Brooklyn at home 3-0 (three hits) and 2-0 (four), then beating them […]
The last time these two teams met was 155 days ago, on April 7 at Wrigley Field, on a cold, rainy afternoon when the game was delayed nearly three hours because of rain. The Cubs won 8-1. All three relievers who played for the Cubs that day are either on the IL, in Triple-A, or […]
It is Monday, September 9thth and tonight the New York Yankees (82-61) host the Kansas City Royals (79-65) in the opener of a series at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Gleyber Torres scored a 1st Innings ball that resulted in 2 runs for Chicago and was enough for Jameson Taillon and the Cubs to a […]
On a beautiful Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field, the Yankees beat the Cubs 2-0. Before I get to the two errors mentioned in the title of this recap, a few facts about the shutout by JohnW53 of BCB: This was the Cubs’ 11th home game of the year without conceding a goal, tying their single-season […]
Which Major League Baseball teams will earn an MLB wild card spot in the 2024 MLB playoffs? Take a look at the MLB wild card standings for the National League and American League as the regular season draws to a close. In the National League, the San Diego Padres, Arizona Diamondbacks and Atlanta Braves have […]
