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CHICAGO -- After Edward Cabrera’s opening fastball in the fourth inning sailed high on Wednesday night, Cubs catcher Carson Kelly tossed the ball back to the pitcher and immediately looked in the direction of the home dugout. Cubs manager Craig Counsell was already en route to the mound.

CHICAGO -- It is a play that Pete Crow-Armstrong has made countless times throughout his life as a center fielder. He charged in, lowered his glove and prepared to retrieve the ball that Brewers third baseman David Hamilton sent bouncing through the grass in center on Wednesday night. The loud

CHICAGO -- The Cubs understood that the task in front of them on Tuesday night was a difficult one. Brewers flamethrower Jacob Misiorowski has been lighting up the radar gun to historic levels for a starting pitcher, making any opportunity to score a crucial moment for the lineup facing the

CHICAGO -- The Brewers are currently chasing the Cubs, but the reality of the situation is reversed when zooming out. The North Siders have been trying to overtake their rivals to the north for three years running and understand that the finish line matters more than how the division race

CHICAGO -- Pete Crow-Armstrong thrives on emotion as a player, but the Cubs' center fielder recognizes that he took things too far in a heated interaction with a White Sox fan on Sunday afternoon. It was a caught-on-camera moment made for social media and it, predictably, caught fire online into

CHICAGO – The last time the Brewers and Cubs met, it was during a 2025 NL Division Series that went the distance. The teams are set to renew rivalries beginning tonight at Wrigley Field – the deepest into a season they have waited to match up since 2004, when they

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CHICAGO -- In the hours leading up to Sunday’s game against the White Sox at Rate Field, Cubs manager Craig Counsell fielded questions about Moisés Ballesteros and the decision to hold the rookie out of the lineup. After offering some thoughts on Ballesteros and the bench, Counsell turned the spotlight

CHICAGO -- Jameson Taillon returned to the mound at Rate Field in the sixth inning on Saturday night, trying to at least get a few more outs for the Cubs’ pitching staff. After his sixth pitch of the frame, the veteran starter let out a frustrated shout as Andrew Benintendi

CHICAGO -- The Cubs fans who flocked to Rate Field on Friday night did what they could to make their presence known. The backdrop was different and the hometown rivalry revved up the atmosphere, but the chants when Pete Crow-Armstrong stepped to the plate in the seventh inning were familiar.

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ARLINGTON – The Cubs have navigated through an exhausting stretch of games over the past few weeks that included plenty of drama and a pile of historic footnotes along the way. Monday’s scheduled off-day will undoubtedly be welcomed by the ballclub. “It’s a needed day off, for sure, for everybody,”

ARLINGTON – Given his tendency to lean on pragmatism and logic, Cubs manager Craig Counsell has never really bought into the concept of riding the hot hand. And then the manager once again wrote Michael Conforto’s name into Saturday’s starting lineup. “Michael changed my mind,” Counsell quipped. “If I could

ARLINGTON – During the Cubs’ pregame pitchers’ meeting on Friday afternoon, pitching coach Tommy Hottovy held up a card detailing the reliever usage over the past several days. Coming off a drama-filled, tightly contested series with the Reds, and within a stretch of 23 games in 24 days, the group

ARLINGTON -- The Cubs have dealt with a constant churn of injuries and transactions related to their bullpen over the first seven weeks of this season. That remained the case for the North Siders when they arrived at Globe Life Field on Friday to begin a series with the Rangers.

CHICAGO -- The way Cubs manager Craig Counsell phrased it, veteran lefty Matthew Boyd woke up on Wednesday morning as a healthy player. In a matter of hours, a fluke setback while at home created yet another obstacle for the North Siders to try to overcome in the weeks ahead.

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CHICAGO -- Before Pete Crow-Armstrong settled in to face Reds reliever Graham Ashcraft in the ninth inning on Wednesday night -- with the Wrigley Field crowd buzzing in anticipation of some more late magic -- Cubs manager Craig Counsell turned to bench coach Ryan Flaherty. “I told Flash,” Counsell said,

CHICAGO -- Michael Busch raised both arms skyward after rounding first base and was soon met on the field by his Cubs teammates, who poured out of the third-base dugout. The first baseman got the customary treatment: players pulling at his jersey, drenching him with water and soon jumping together

CHICAGO -- Michael Conforto could not stop smiling as he rounded third base and headed to the plate, where his Cubs teammates were waiting to swarm the veteran and get the celebration rolling. Conforto could not remember hitting a walk-off home run in his life -- maybe as a Little

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CHICAGO – The Cubs have learned to embrace some of the chaotic environment of Wrigley Field, trying to use the elements to their advantage at times. Take a day like Sunday, when the wind had the flags rattling the poles around the ballpark as it howled out and toyed with

CHICAGO – All Shota Imanaga could do after the ball nicked off the end of his glove was turn and watch. And from his vantage point on the mound, the Cubs' lefty saw shortstop Dansby Swanson in position to react to the ricochet.

CHICAGO – Cubs manager Craig Counsell referred to Nico Hoerner as the engine of the offense during the second baseman’s torrid start to this season. Given his importance to the lineup and defense, losing Hoerner for any amount of time would be detrimental.