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Keep stacking. One after another, the Cubs have been able to keep stacking wins. 10 straight home wins now. This is getting into some pretty rare air. I feel like a broken record. This is not an all-time great Cub team. But somehow, some way they just keep on winning. If anything, that’s the best […]
The Arizona Complex League, a.k.a. Rookie Ball, started this afternoon. I normally don’t do a full recap of the ACL Cubs. Instead, I just give a link to the box score and comment if anything extraordinary happened today. I also don’t wait for the ACL Cubs to finish before I hit “publish” on the nightly […]
On a sunny, but blustery and chilly afternoon at Wrigley Field, two Cubs totally dominated the action. Shōta Imanaga had another outstanding start, scattering four hits over seven innings and striking out five. And Ian Happ doubled, tripled and homered, scoring both of the Cubs’ runs in a 2-0 shutout of the Diamondbacks, the Cubs’ […]
Go get ‘em, Shōta.
Today’s Lineups DIAMONDBACKS CUBS Ketel Marte – 2B Michael Busch – 1B Geraldo Perdomo – SS Moises Ballesteros – DH Corbin Carroll – RF Alex Bregman – 3B Ildemaro Vargas – 1B Ian Happ – LF Lourdes Gurriel – LF Seiya Suzuki – RF Nolan Arenado – DH Pete Crow-Armstrong – CF Jose Fernandez – […]
Saturday notes… Cubs lineup: Diamondbacks lineup: Shōta Imanaga, LHP vs. Ryne Nelson, RHP Shōta Imanaga was a little off his game Sunday against the Dodgers, allowing five runs in 5.1 innings. One positive: He did not allow a home run and this year he’s given up just three long balls in 34.1 innings, a vast […]
2026 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 33 Cubs 2, Diamondbacks 0: The Shōta Imanaga and Ian Happ show Cubs vs. Diamondbacks, Saturday 5/2, 1:20 CT live! Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona Diamondbacks preview, Saturday 5/2, 1:20 CT
Diamondbacks News Ildemaro Extends Streak, Gallen Implodes in Cubs Narrow WinIldemaro entered May in emphatic fashion, going 4-for-4 to raise his league leading batting average to .404. On the other side of things, Zac Gallen didn’t make it out of the third inning, allowing six earned runs. The bullpen slammed the door shut and the […]
The Cubs came back home and got right back into a groove. When last we saw this team, they’d swept all seven games on a seven-game homestand. For those not keeping track at home, they also won the home game before that back on April 12. So this is now nine straight wins at Wrigley […]
Daniel Palencia was throwing hard in St. Paul. Mason McGwire might just be a prospect. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs declared the St. Paul Saints (Twins) to be heretics, 6-5. Connor Noland put the I-Cubs in an early hole after he got battered around for five runs on six hits over four innings. He walked […]
For much of this early season, two of Jed Hoyer’s key bullpen acquisitions had not done well. Phil Maton spent time on the injured list and didn’t throw well when he pitched. Jacob Webb had not had good outings most of the year to date. Friday, both of them pitched well when the Cubs needed […]
The San Diego Padres have had a streakier bullpen than usual lately. The two runs they combined to give up on Wednesday afternoon ended up costing the Friars incredibly in their 5-4 loss to the Chicago Cubs. It was their first series loss in the entire month of April. And here’s the thing. As much […]
Game Summary The Diamondbacks rough road trip continued with this 1-run loss on a cold, windy day in Wrigley, but at least the Snakes showed us some life by fighting back after falling down big early again. Zac Gallen was not sharp at all, continuing the trend of D-backs’ starters not being able to find […]
Go get ‘em, Colin.
Today’s Lineups DIAMONDBACKS CUBS Geraldo Perdomo – SS Nico Hoerner – 2B Ildemaro Vargas – 2B Moises Ballesteros – DH Corbin Carroll – RF Alex Bregman – 3B Adrian Del Castillo – DH Ian Happ – LF Gabriel Moreno – C Seiya Suzuki – RF Jose Fernandez – 1B Michael Busch – 1B Nolan Arenado […]
Cubs 6, Diamondbacks 5: Phil Maton and Jacob Webb come through Cubs vs. Diamondbacks, Friday 5/1, 1:20 CT live! Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona Diamondbacks preview, Friday 5/1, 1:20 CT
The Cubs just completed a 17-9 April and have won 12 of their last 15. The Diamondbacks come to Wrigley having lost six of their last nine. The Cubs just finished taking two of three from the Padres, whose previous series was in Mexico City against… the Diamondbacks. That series was split. Arizona stopped off […]
The Cubs and the Diamondbacks are possibly rivals for a wild-card berth into the playoffs. On 27 April, FanGraphs projected them to win 86 and 82 games. This series could possibly decide which team reaches the playoffs. The Cubs were recently playing hot, with a 10 game winning streak through 24 April. It ended with […]
Welcome Jackson Heiden, Contributor In 2015, the Milwaukee Brewers hired Jeff Levering as the newest member of their broadcast team. On September 23, 2017, I was outside listening to the Brewers Radio Network, helping my father re-side the house, when Travis Shaw hit a two-run walk-off home run against the Chicago Cubs in the 10th […]
Free of charge for the discerning reader. Happy birthday to Marcus Stroman* and a mighty host of others. Today in baseball history, in 1991, Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers pitches the seventh no-hitter of his major league career, and other stories as well. Today in baseball history: Cubs Birthdays: Marcus Stroman*, Rudy Meoli, Paul Carter. Today in history: *pictured.
The Arizona Complex League starts on Saturday, so there’s some movement in anticipation of that. The Iowa Cubs also got some (probably) temporary reinforcements. Right-hander Vince Velazquez has elected free agency. Right-hander Jace Beck was promoted to Triple-A Iowa from Double-A Knoxville. Outfielder Jeury Ramirez was promoted from the Dominican Summer League Cubs-Red to Iowa. […]
The Chicago Cubs are 19-12 and sitting just a game back of the division-leading Reds despite running what has essentially been a rotating cast of relievers in the late innings for the better part of three weeks. Caleb Thielbar was Craig Counsell’s de facto closer in Daniel Palencia’s absence before landing on the injured list […]
In 2025, the Cubs were relatively healthy. That’s easy to forget. The headline injuries, Justin Steele, Kyle Tucker and Cade Horton were to some of the team’s biggest stars. Nico Hoerner and a number of other offensive players had some various bumps and bruises. A couple of the starting pitchers missed some time. Javier Assad […]
The San Diego Padres dropped a series for the first time since the opening week of the season with a 5-4 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday, but they had opportunities to prevent that. In the end, the offense did not do enough, and the bullpen struggled to keep runs off the board. Miguel […]
After playing 13 straight games, the Dodgers off day couldn’t come at a better time. The offense specifically needs time to regroup. After scoring a total of 22 runs against the Chicago Cubs over the weekend, the Dodgers manages just eight runs total against the Miami Marlins, in which the Fish won 2-of-3 games at […]