WASHINGTON -- It'll go down as one of the wildest elimination games in postseason history, but somehow, some way -- while using seven pitchers -- theChicago Cubsadvanced to their third consecutive National League Championship Series behind a9-8 winover theWashington Nationals. It wasn't sup...
[1][2] The conquest was marked by one of the biggest parades in the history of the country, with an estimated 3 million people in attendance. The Cubs returned to the postseason in both 2017 and 2018 but failed to return to the World Series as the hoped-for dynasty that seemed on ...
The Cubs sold 2,990,794 tickets this season, a little more than 15,000 more than last summer. Fans were hoping for a postseason berth during the offseason, when Chicago made Craig Counsell the highest-paid manager in the game's history. The Cubs never could make up any ground on NL ...
CHICAGO -- TheChicago Cubsare back in the playoffs. Three hundred and twenty-six days after manager Joe Maddon talked postseason baseball in his opening press conference, he was proven right late Friday night when theSan Francisco Giantslost to theOakland Athletics, helping the Cubs clinch a po...
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Blue-clad Cubs fans who traveled from Wrigley Field filled nearly the entire lower deck behind the Chicago dugout at Progressive Field, singing “Go Cubs! Go!” Manager Joe Maddon’s team halted the longest championship drought in baseball history as his club became the first t...
• The Cubs have won 96 games for the first time since they finished 97-64 in 2008, which was the last time they made the postseason. • The Brewers were shut out for the 16th time, matching the 2004 club for second-highest total in franchise history. The 1972 Brewers were shut ou...
Carrie Muskat: "Cubs relishing role of postseason underdogs: Defending World Series champs feel experience is big advantage",mlb.com, October 4, 2017.[1] Bob Nightengale: "As Cubs defend title, they embrace a new mantra: 'That's Cub'",USA Today Sports, February 14, 2017.[2] ...
whether it’s debating the Curse of the Billy Goat that allegedly caused the team’s extended postseason misfortunes, reciting the entire “Tinker to Evers to Chance” poem or learning the words to Steve Goodman’s 1984 ode “Go, Cubs, Go.” Meanwhile, superfans in the stands such as Ronni...
Chicago, trying to make the postseason for the first time since 2020, began the night tied with Arizona for the second of three NL wild-cards. The Cubs were one game ahead of fourth-place Miami, which was rained out at the New York Mets. ...