This story was excerpted from Jordan Bastian’s Cubs Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. CHICAGO -- There is no worrying about workloads when the calendar flips to October and the win-or-go-home reality of the postseason arrives. And with

CHICAGO -- It hit Patrick Wisdom as he was trotting around the bases on Sunday afternoon. As he heard the Wrigley Field crowd roar and saw his teammates in the third-base dugout celebrating, the Cubs' slugger felt the importance of the homer he just sent deep into the left-field bleachers.

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This story was excerpted from Jordan Bastian’s Cubs Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

PHOENIX -- A somber feeling loomed over the Cubs’ clubhouse at Chase Field after a frustrating 7-6 loss in 13 innings to the D-backs on Saturday night. The loud postgame silence in the clubhouse has been all too familiar lately. The Cubs suffered their seventh loss in the past nine