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The Cubs are beginning their third series of the season against the Brewers today, and so far it hasn’t gone well for Chicago (2-4). I’d like to say that they’re fortunate *not* to face Milwaukee again after this series until the end of June (given how hot the Brewers have been), but if the Cubs don’t find a way to beat them this weekend, they might actually WANT some more matchups to help close what could be a widening division gap in a season with less time to prove themselves than usual. The Brewers could already be the favorite in the NL Central, and this Cubs team needs to prove ...

hey, they had 10 hits, five for extra bases, and 3 walks in their series finale against the Braves on Sunday (and that was after their 13-run explosion on Saturday) — Chicago runs into the New York Mets – the second best run prevention team in MLB. And, yes, as of now, Jacob deGrom will pitch in this series. With that in mind, the Cubs should REALLY try to win at least one of these first two games, because deGrom will be such a uniquely perfect challenge for this offense in the series finale. Er, well, and every other team he faces these days. I don’t know what “really trying” to w...

For the first time since 2019, the Cubs play a non-Central team in the regular season.

Alzolay expected to start for the Cubs against Brewers Milwaukee; Monday, 7:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Adbert Alzolay (0-1, 7.20 ERA) Brewers: Freddy Peralta (1-0, .00 ERA) LINE: Brewers favored by 1 1/2 runs; over/under is 8 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs face the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday. The Brewers went 19-21 in division games in 2020. Milwaukee pitchers had a WHIP of 1.23 last season while striking out 10.2 hitters per game. The Cubs went 22-18 in division games in 2020. Chicago averaged 7.0 hits with 2.7 extra base hits per game and 74 total...

•   Having lost 7-1, it’s a bit of a trick to say that an early-game umpiring decision that took a single run off the board for the Cubs was the difference in yesterday’s game, so I won’t quite do that. But had Willson Contreras not been called for interference on his break-up-the-double-play slide, not only would it have then been a 3-2 game, but that third inning would’ve been extended. You never quite know how that could have changed the course of the game. •   But Contreras  was called for interference on this play: •   Your super short version of the rule is that a r...