Fact: The Cubs overcame a 5-2 deficit in the 9th inning to beat the Giants 6-5 on Tuesday night and move on to the NLCS. They joined the 1986 Mets (LCS) as the only teams to come back from a three-run deficit or more in the 9th inning to win a postseason series clincher.
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For the last 107 seasons, any hope the Chicago Cubs held heading into postseason play was almost immediately followed by agony.
What took place in the ninth inning of Game 4 of the National League Division Series on Tuesday night is supposed to happen to the Cubs. Chicago is never the team that dishes out heartbreak.
But at AT&T Park, the Cubs borrowed—or maybe stole—some of the magic that has guided the San Francisco Giants to World Series titles in each of the last three even years.
Down by three runs, with a decisive Game 5 on the minds of everyone in attendance ...
When the goal is to snap a World Series championship drought that's existed for longer than Wrigley Field itself, it's best to leave as little as possible to chance.
That pretty much explains the 2016 Chicago Cubs.
To do a quick recap of what happened in the regular season, the Cubs won 103 games and scored 252 more runs than they allowed. Both figures far outpaced those of any other team. The long and short of it is that the rest of Major League Baseball had no answer for how to stop Chicago.
So why should anybody be surprised that the San Francisco ...
Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Kyle Hendricks left Saturday's National League Division Series game against the San Francisco Giants after taking a line drive off his arm.
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Latest Details on Hendricks' Injury
Saturday, Oct. 8
X-rays on Hendricks' arm were negative, per Chris Kuc of the Chicago Tribune.
Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Sun-Times reported the pitcher has a bruised arm.
Hendricks Tried to Stay in Game
Saturday, Oct. 8
Per Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports, Cubs manager Joe Maddon removed Hendricks after the right-hander tried to talk his manager into leaving him in.
Former Cubs outfielder Angel Pagan hit the liner off an 80 mph ...
The Chicago Cubs have no shortage of burgeoning stars.
Toss a fungo bat during Chicago's pregame warm-ups, and you're likely to hit a young stud: Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant, Addison Russell—the list goes on.
In Game 1 of the National League Division Series against the San Francisco Giants on Friday, second baseman Javier Baez nudged his name closer to the top of the Cubs' up-and-comer leaderboard.
With the score knotted 0-0 in the bottom of the eighth, Baez crushed a solo homer off Giants starter Johnny Cueto, much to the delight of the long-suffering Wrigley Field masses.
MLB.com's Cut4 offered a look at the ...
CHICAGO — To understand the psyche of Chicago Cubs fans is not to be a team historian.
Steve Bartman and the Curse of the Billy Goat are integral events in the long-suffering organization's history. As are countless postseason disappointments.
But almost universally, fans of the team are not a group that dwells on its heartbreak. Cubs nation is not depressed, like a person in mourning. The World Series-starved fanbase is more giddy, like expecting parents.
The tenor around Wrigleyville, the appropriately named area that is home to Wrigley Field, is somewhat a result of the group of young players president of baseball operations ...
If the Chicago Cubs have their way, 2016 will be the year they finally end a 108-year World Series championship drought and send the Curse of the Billy Goat the way of the Curse of the Bambino.
Addison Russell aims to do his part. He may not have the biggest name on a star-studded Cubs team fresh off a 103-win regular season, but there's no question he's a rising star. The second-year shortstop was an All-Star for the first time in 2016, and his stellar defense and strong offense make him one of the best two-way players still standing.
Russell is partnering with ...
With Major League Baseball's playoffs just days away, the first 100-win season since 1935 doesn't mean a thing for Chicago Cubs starter Jon Lester.
On Saturday, the All-Star left-hander, who is tied for the National League lead with 19 wins, made his intentions clear as the calendar flipped to October, via Jesse Rogers of ESPN.com: "This season isn't anything unless we do what we showed up at spring training to do—win a World Series. I don't want to sound like an assh--e or anything, but we really haven't done anything yet."
It's been 108 years since the Cubs won their last World Series, which ...
After locking up president Theo Epstein, the Chicago Cubs are keeping the rest of their dynamic front-office trio together with extensions for general manager Jed Hoyer and vice president Jason McLeod.
According to the Cubs' official Twitter account, Hoyer and McLeod each received five-year extensions through 2021.
The trio of Epstein, Hoyer and McLeod joined the Cubs in October 2011 after previously working together with the Boston Red Sox from 2003 to 2009.
As part of the team's announcement on Friday, Epstein praised the work of Hoyer and McLeod to help make the Cubs into what they are, per Carrie Muskat of MLB.com:
Jed and ...
Through the first two months of the MLB season, it seemed as if Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jake Arrieta was cruising toward a nine-figure contract and recognition as one of baseball’s best at his position.
Arrieta followed up his 2015 Cy Young campaign by posting a 1.74 ERA through his first 15 starts, the highlight of which was a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds on April 21. Then on June 27 against the same Cincinnati team he no-hit a little more than two months earlier, it all came to a screeching halt, and Arrieta’s surging stardom took a U-turn.
That day, Arrieta needed ...
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