This thrilling and dominant team deserves the party that’s coming.
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Key Moment: Look, the key moments are the two above plays, but I’m going to choose one of the young Cubs’ contributions in this game.
“It’s still a little early”. The schedule. NY is home for a three-game series beginning tonight against the worst team in the American League (Minnesota) followed by a three-game series against the worst team in the National League (Atlanta).
The Houston Astros and the Toronto Blue Jays shut out their opponents, winning 6-0 against the Seattle Mariners and 5-0 against the Los Angeles Angels respectively. That would clinch it then. On the highly coveted rooftops above Wrigley Field, tickets come at a premium.
Cobb (1-0) allowed one run and two hits in 6 2-3 innings to win for the first time since September 23, 2014, against Boston. “We work hard. We celebrate at the end of the day”. The first-place Indians remained six games ahead of Detroit in the AL Central.
Ryan Braun, Orlando Arcia and Scooter Gennett homered for Milwaukee on Friday, but the Cubs got to Carlos Torres for two runs in the ninth and celebrated their NL Central title with a 5-4 win on Miguel Montero’s seventh homer in the 10th inning.
Hill, who was 9-3 with Oakland before being traded to Los Angeles on August 1, allowed a run for the first time with the Dodgers when Kyle Jensen homered in the second.
If the Cubs are able to wrap up the best record in the National League, then they will face the National League wild card game victor in the first round of the postseason.
Joey Wendle had a career-best four-hit game and scored three runs, while Daniel Mengden pitched seven scoreless innings as Oakland crushed Kansas City to complete a four-game sweep. They got in as a wild card previous year and made it to the NL Championship Series before they were swept by the New York Mets. When they traded for Montgomery, team president Theo Epstein believed that perhaps they were acquiring an arm that was about to break, a player much more valuable than the price they paid.
The St. Louis Cardinals are now a game out of the second spot, with three more games to go against the Giants this weekend as they try to claw their way into the playoffs. Not an entirely comfortable lead, but certainly in a positive spot.
The White Sox took three of four games in the series to conclude a 6-4 homestand against three playoff hopefuls. “Anytime the Cardinals lose, a Cubs fan’s mood is improved”.
NATIONALS 1, METS 0: Tanner Roark pitched seven spotless innings and Wilson Ramos homered in the seventh inning as Washington beat NY. With a record of 93-53, the closest team to them in the NL is the 87-59 NL East lading Washington Nationals. There’s no excuse not to go 7-3 on this current homestand against Minnesota, Atlanta and Philadelphia, at the very least. None of these series should be deemed a cake walk by any means, but given the rivalry between the Giants and Dodgers (and the fact that both teams could potentially still claim the NL West crown), and San Francisco’s recent troubles with San Diego, their schedule may play tougher than St. Louis’. We take that to heart.
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We finish with … the insane AL East and the AL Wild Card.
