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Cubs 6, Nationals 3: A little something for everyone, part 2 Share this story Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images The Cubs defeated the Nationals 6-3 at Wrigley Field Tuesday evening and that’s all good, their third win in a row and fourth in their last five, and I’ll get to all the details in a moment, but first I’ve got something I need to say. Baseball should not be played under the conditions it was played Tuesday night. A steady moderate rain fell for about the first six innings. T...

Cubs Bullpen Love, Rizzos Back, KBs Pocket Full of Candy, Trouts Out, and Other Cubs Bullets Social Navigation Cubs Bullpen Love, Rizzo’s Back, KB’s Pocket Full of Candy, Trout’s Out, and Other Cubs Bullets One thing you’ll never have to question: David Ross will always have his own players’ backs in any situation. That’s a given. You’d  think it would be a given with most teams, but, well. Anyway. •   The Cubs are back over .500 again, are one of just five teams in the NL wi...

Is 9:30 am too early to be thinking about the leftover bbq I get to have for lunch? How about 6:30 am, when I woke up? Because I was thinking about it then, and I’m thinking about it now. It’s gonna be an early lunch day. •   Craig Kimbrel looked as good last night as he’s looked at any time with the Cubs, so he certainly wasn’t any worse for the wear with having all that time off recently: Craig Kimbrel, King the Side with ������ pic.twitter.com/PNjl4U5feW •   His c...

I’d had a few articles open in tabs for a week or two, just sitting there up top on my screen. I didn’t really want to deal with them. I knew they could be talking points for a post, but I just … it wasn’t time. I knew it wasn’t time. And I sure didn’t feel any kind of special passion about making it time just yet. The topics of those tabbed articles? Trading Kris Bryant. I get it, and certainly I participated in the offseason (just as I will later this year if it comes to that). Br...

Knowing that Jake Marisnick had to go to the Injured List, and also knowing they might be short another position player or two today or tomorrow (Javy Baez’s back? Jason Heyward’s hand?), the Cubs had a bit of a tough choice: they could call up an extra arm for Marisnick, which might seem weird, but their other option was to call up an outfielder/utility guy for Marisnick AND bounce someone from the 40-man roster to do it. The Cubs opted for the path that keeps more players in the organizat...

The Cubs have a trio of players headed to the Injured List today (Nico Hoerner, Jake Arrieta, and Dan Winkler), and another (Ian Happ) whose status is still being determined. It’s not great! But at least the Cubs aren’t inclined to think it’ll be serious overall: “We’re optimistic,” Cubs manager David Ross said, addressing injuries involving Jake Arrieta, Nico Hoerner and Dan Winkler. Ross pointed to the days off scheduled for Thursday, May 10 and May 13. “It gives us the chance t...

After a ten-base performance yesterday – two homers and a double – Kris Bryant’s season line is now up to .323/.405/.708 with a 192 wRC+, better than every other player in the National League outside of Ronald Acuña Jr., who is at 194. Ditto on the WAR side, where Bryant’s 1.8 is fourth best in baseball, and second in the NL. Bryant’s 9 homers also have him tied with Acuña among the leaders in baseball, and his 19 extra-base hits are second in baseball (again, to Acuña). If you had...

At last viewing, the Iowa Cubs were in the middle of dropping the conference title series after winning their conference in the Pacific Coast League’s regular season. What we didn’t know then, of course, was that a novel coronavirus would begin to spread overseas a few months later, reaching the United States after the turn of the new year, and taking so much down with it, including the 2020 minor league season. That Iowa Cubs playoff series was just over 600 days ago. The last Minor League...

He spat at the woman with his salvia landing on her lip. Another man entered the confrontation and stood between Stanley and the woman. Stanley attempted to punch the man, but this person moved and the blow instead connected with the woman’s jaw, knocking her to the ground. Leaving the party, Stanley ran to the road where he was confronted by other party goers. The group of men started fighting and Stanley was hit with a glass bottle during his attempt to flee. He eventually made it to ...