While the Cardinals hold a better head-to-head record and have more World Series wins, the Cubs have enjoyed more recent success, as they beat the Cardinals 3-1 in the 2015 National League Division Series (their only postseason matchup) and have the most recent World Series title between th...
Let’s look back at some of the biggest Winter Meetings moves in Cubs history. While this is hardly the definitive list of such transactions, here are five of the most notable Meetings maneuverings by Chicago over the years. 1. Lester chooses Cubs, changes culture The Cubs were a young, ...
WASHINGTON -- It'll go down as one of the wildest elimination games in postseason history, but somehow, some way -- while using seven pitchers -- the Chicago Cubs advanced to their third consecutive National League Championship Series behind a 9-8 win over the Washington Nationals. It w...
but he has a long history of postseason mastery.Jake Arrietais the reigning Cy Young and looked sharp in Game 2, the Cubs' lone win in the series. AndKyle Hendrickshas also been sharp this postseason; even though he was
Cubs: The Cubs have posted 83-79 records in each of the last two seasons, but they still haven’t reached the postseason during Jed Hoyer’s four-year tenure as president of baseball operations. 2025 is the last year of Hoyer’s original five-year contract, and acquiringKyle Tucker(who ...
The switch-hitting outfielder put the Cubs on the board with his first homer, taking A's starter Mitch Spence deep to lead off the bottom of the third and make the score 3-1. However, it was his second long ball of the evening that made history. ...
cardinals in the NLDS this year and won in four games 3-1. The cubs won the series by home runs, good pitching, and a healthy team. The Chicago cubs hit ten home runs in those four games against St. Louis, including setting a record for most homeruns in a postseason game with six...
The Cubs will most likely turn to LaTroy Hawkins, who gave up the ninth-inning, three-run, game-tying homer in a late-September loss to the Mets that sent Chicago into a 2-7 tailspin costing the team a postseason appearance. Chicago clubbed a league-leading 235 home runs in '04--...
Eventually, the woman said, she told her bosses, who referred her to a lawyer and connected her with a Cubs employee from her home country. The woman and the employee met during the 2016 postseason in Chicago. The woman did not want to identify the employee...
History, Comments, Contributions[edit] The1998 Chicago Cubswere fueled by theMVPseason of outfielderSammy Sosa, who helped the club make its first postseason appearance in 9 years. While the nation's attention was on Sosa andMark McGwire's chase ofRoger Maris' single-season record of 60 home...