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2026 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 45 Cubs 10, White Sox 5: Carson Kelly leads an offensive explosion Cubs vs. White Sox, Friday 5/15, 6:40 CT live! Chicago Cubs vs. Chicago White Sox preview, Friday 5/15, 6:40 CT
The White Sox are over .500 this late in the season for the first time since 2022. Thus, the Cubs should not underestimate them. They might not be a great team, but they are certainly improved over what they were the last couple of years. For more on the White Sox, here’s Chrystal O’Keefe, managing […]
Interleague play began in 1997, so 2026 will be the 30th season of MLB teams playing outside their own “league.” In reality, Major League Baseball became one league in 1999 when the positions of league president were eliminated and the umpiring crews were merged. The National League and American League still exist, of course, but […]
The Cubs might have looked worse in this series than they have in any series since the one at Cleveland in early April. There were series losses to the Pirates (cumulative score 12-10 Pirates advantage), the Dodgers (22-10) and Rangers (10-7) in the interim. So maybe that Dodgers one was worse than the Cleveland series […]
The Cubs are still having trouble scoring runs, as you likely saw in the team’s 2-0 win over the Braves Thursday evening in Atlanta. But with Ben Brown’s second straight excellent start and solid work from the bullpen, two runs was enough to win the game and end the Cubs’ four-game losing streak. The Cubs […]
Happy Friday, everyone! Hopefully, it’s been a good week, and you’re set to enjoy your weekend. To ease you into the final day of the week, we’ve got an assortment of baseball news for you to enjoy. We’re taking a look at the early discussions regarding the CBA and a potential salary cap, the new […]
Free of charge for the discerning reader. Happy birthday to Bill North, and a mighty host of others. Today in baseball history, for example, in 1935 – Lou Gehrig steals home in a 4-0 Yankee win over the Tigers. It is his 15th and last steal of home, all of which were double steals, and other stories as well. Plus, since there […]
Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs were silenced by the Nashville Sounds (Brewers), 6-5. Starter Doug Nikhazy struggled with control tonight, walking seven batters in just 3.1 innings. But he kept the Sounds to only two hits and two runs. He struck out four. Luis Peralta pitched the seventh inning, gave up an unearned run on […]
Go get ‘em, Ben.
Thursday notes… Cubs lineup: Braves lineup: Ben Brown, RHP vs. Chris Sale, LHP Ben Brown threw exceptionally well last Friday against the Rangers, throwing four no-hit innings, with 31 strikes in 46 pitches, allowing just one walk. He’ll likely be allowed to go a bit farther tonight, though I wouldn’t expect more than maybe 65 […]
Cubs 2, Braves 0: Ben Brown and the bullpen get the job done 2026 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 44 Cubs vs. Braves, Thursday 5/14, 6:15 CT live! Chicago Cubs vs. Atlanta Braves preview, Thursday 5/14, 6:15 CT
It’s been a tremendous season of Cubs baseball so far with the team putting together two 10-game winning streaks and still in the midst of a 15-game home winning streak before Memorial Day. Neither of those events have happened since 1935, and you know when a team with a 150-year history is doing things that […]
After matching their season-high 10-game winning streak, the team has now followed with a season-high four game losing streak. Spoiler alert, the last (full) season where the Cubs didn’t have a losing streak longer than four games was back in 2003. I didn’t take pen to paper (or make a spreadsheet), but the Cliff’s Notes […]
Shōta Imanaga is pitching like the ace everyone hoped he would be. Imanaga threw seven outstanding innings (and one batter into the eighth, and that inning led to the Cubs’ undoing), the third time this year he’s thrown seven. But Phil Maton could not hold a 1-1 tie together and the Cubs lost to the […]
Today’s Reflections The Cubs’ current hitting doldrums are one reason I play the blues on here. I picked the featured singer and song way back when the Cubs were the Hitting Kings of Baseball. So it’s so randomly accurate that I picked the King of the Blues, singing, “The Thrill (of double-digit scoring, of 10-game […]
Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs were too quiet for the Nashville Sounds (Brewers), 4-1. Connor Noland pitched the first five innings and took the loss after he permitted three runs on six hits. He walked two, hit one and struck out two. The I-Cubs’ only run came on left fielder Kevin Alcántara’s league-leading 14th home […]
It’s Wednesday night here at BCB After Dark: the coolest spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. We’re hoppin’ in here and you’re welcome to come in and join us. There’s no cover charge. If you have something you’d like checked, we can do that now. The show will start […]
Go get ‘em, Shōta.
ICYMI, the Cubs signed Liam Hendriks to a minor-league deal today. Can’t hurt, I suppose. Wednesday notes… Cubs lineup: Braves lineup: Shōta Imanaga, LHP vs. JR Ritchie, RHP Shōta Imanaga has been just outstanding this year. Last seven starts: 1.70 ERA, 0.850 WHIP, 46 strikeouts in 42.1 innings with only three home runs allowed. The […]
Braves 4, Cubs 1: Shōta Imanaga shines again, but the offense is still missing 2026 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 43 Cubs vs. Braves, Wednesday 5/13, 6:15 CT live! Chicago Cubs vs. Atlanta Braves preview, Wednesday 5/13, 6:15 CT
The collective-bargaining agreement (CBA) between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association expires Dec. 1. Last time this happened, five years ago, a lockout was imposed on that date and lasted until mid-March, abbreviating Spring Training and forcing schedule changes which resulted in the Cubs playing six doubleheaders in order to get a full […]
Win 10, lose three, win 10, lose three. Win 10 again? Unlikely. But one of the more curious 26 game stretches we’ve ever seen has just concluded. What will be next? We can’t know. But the schedule doesn’t ease up. This Braves team is no joke. Coming off of a down season, experts were divided […]
Look at it this way. At least the Cubs scored some runs in this game. Not enough runs, as they lost to the Braves 5-2 in the series opener in Atlanta. Colin Rea and Grant Holmes matched zeroes through two innings, and the Cubs failed to score in the top of the third. The Braves […]
Good morning. Tough way to break a slump, but Big Dumper will take it.
Free of charge for the discerning reader. Happy birthday to Eli Morgan, and a mighty host of others. Today in baseball history is a story that is so good, so nice it shouldn’t be buried amongst the ther stories. In 1947 – Larry Miggins hits the first of his two major league home runs, going deep off Preacher […]