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Chicago; Tuesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Patrick Corbin (2-3, 0.00 ERA) Cubs: Zach Davies (2-2, 5.60 ERA, 1.76 WHIP, 22 strikeouts) FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cubs -107, Nationals -108; over/under is even BOTTOM LINE: Chicago and Washington will meet on Tuesday. The Cubs are 14-8 in home games in 2020. Chicago has slugged .404, good for third in the National League. Kris Bryant leads the club with a .625 slugging percentage, including 24 extra-base hits and 10 home runs. The Nationals have gone 7-11 away from home. Washington ranks fourth in the league in hitting with a .2...

The Chicago Cubs haven’t won a game in almost a week. Of course, that’s just a three-game losing streak with two off-days baked in, but still, it feels like it’s been forever, because it has been forever. And while they are starting a three-game set against one of the worst teams in baseball today, the Tigers, those Tigers have won four straight and are throwing two lefties out there at a time when some of the Cubs best options against lefties are banged up or out. The Cubs should get Nico Hoerner back as soon as today. And theoretically, Kris Bryant’s illness has had some time to di...

Slumping Cubs look to stop 3-game losing streak against Tigers May 14, 2021 By The Associated Press Chicago Cubs (17-19, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Detroit Tigers (13-24, fourth in the AL Central) Detroit; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Jake Arrieta (3-3, 0.00 ERA) Tigers: Tarik Skubal (0-5, 5.67 ERA, 1.59 WHIP, 26 strikeouts) FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Tigers +125, Cubs -144; over/under is 8 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: Chicago enters the matchup as losers of their last three games. The Tigers are 8-10 in home games in 2020. Detroit has hit 34 home runs as a team this season...

You know what? I never know how to write intros to posts where something is *clearly* expected of me … like, say, the Cubs playing the Indians in Cleveland on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. Do I play it straight and simply remind folks of the World Series connection? Do I say something meta like “Something, something, a Wednesday in Cleveland”? Do I ignore it completely and only look forward? I really don’t know. So how about we just share some random tweets from * the* night (drop some of yours in the comments, if you’re so inclined), and leave it at that.

Oh, it’s never good when you have enough injury bits to discuss/update that you have to break off a separate post to get into them. The Cubs are rather banged up, and it got (much?) worse yesterday. Let’s start with the new stuff. Sprinting to catch a pop fly in the first, Jake Marisnick slowed up and immediately went down. He was taken out of the game, and you knew it was going to be a legit injury – turned out to be a hamstring, and the Cubs were calling it a “strain” even before they got any tests done. Those tests will happen today (Cubs.com), and the best you can hope for is a ...