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Hey, Cubs win today, and shablammo they’re in first place. If you dream it, you can do it. •   Getting Kyle Hendricks right is about as important as anything the bats did yesterday, and it sounds like he feels he’s getting close (Cubs.com): “There were definitely more positives to take out of this [start]. There’s still a lot of hard work to do – still a lot of hard contact, fastballs that are up, but I at least made some better pitches overall. I just need to continue on that roa...

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Christmas Eve storm to unleash flooding, damaging winds, then frigid air along East Coast Matthew Cappucci The American GFS model simulates the Christmas Eve storm system. (Pivotal Weather) A potent storm system is targeting the Eastern Seaboard with an array of high-impact and potentially hazardous weather, bringing the worst of the clashing seasons just in time for Christmas. Strong winds, flooding rains and even severe weather are likely, with the risk of a few tornadoes a...

share-square-1440216 Ten pitchers have gone into the Hall of Fame with a Giants cap, a nod to the franchise’s rich history of developing elite arms. Several of these all-time greats burnished their credentials by producing some of the best individual seasons the league has seen. Here’s a look back at five of those superlative campaigns: , 1908 One of the most dominant pitchers in baseball history, Mathewson’s biggest year came in 1908, when he won a career-high 37 games, setting a modern-...