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Harden, Johnson Stimulate Cubs To Win Over Astros, 6-3
The Cubs have now won five of their last six games, after a 6-3 win over Houston last night at the Juice Box, and they are doing it the same way they did it last year -- with long-sequence offenses (o...
Worried About The Cubs' Offense? Bats Come Alive In 11-6 Win Over Astros
Just when we were starting to worry about the Cub offense getting untracked against mostly mediocre Houston pitching, the first seven batters reached base and by the time those Houston pitchers got si...
Cubs' Aim: Win Series - Cubs vs. Astros, Wednesday 4/8, 7:05 CT
Lou Piniella preached this all year in 2008 -- "win series". If a team could somehow win every three-game series for an entire season, that'd be 108 wins. Of course, that's very difficult to do, but w...
Farewell To Tucson: Cubs 6, Rockies 10
TUCSON, Arizona -- It's probably not the Cubs' absolute final game in Tucson, because the Diamondbacks and Rockies are probably there for at least one more spring (although, a year ago, did you think ...
Monday Morning Rockpile:
Not counting single-series road trips, this 10-game road stint was the best one by the Rockies yet: Dates Record Opponents 1 4/11-4/18 5-4 Ari (1-2), SD (2-1), Hou (2-1) 2 4/2...
Indoor/Outdoor Carpeting: Cubs 7, Blue Jays 4
COOPERSTOWN, New York -- After driving through several downpours, and enjoying an entire baseball game despite several of the same in Toronto, I've arrived on the outskirts of Cooperstown, for tomorro...
A Marquis Performance: Cubs 6, Blue Jays 2
TORONTO -- Whoever this guy is inhabiting Jason Marquis' body and uniform, don't let him give it back to the real Jason Marquis (the one we've been so frustrated with over the last year and a half). ...
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before: Cubs 2, Blue Jays 3
TORONTO -- Sean Gallagher threw a pretty nice game last night. But the Cubs lost to the Blue Jays 3-2, snapping a four-game winning streak, you're saying. What is Al talking about? The road finally...
Sixty Years On: Cubs 3, Braves 2
LANSING, Michigan -- Traffic was terrible! That's what I get for staying till the end of today's excruciatingly exciting 3-2 Cubs win over the Braves; I didn't hit Lake Shore Drive till 5:30, which...
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