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Chicago has gone 20-8 since July 31 and 32-18 in its last 50 games, pulling within three games of the final NL wild-card berth. The Cubs have done it on the strength of a once moribund and ...
The playoffs begin on Tuesday, Oct. 1 with the best-of-three wild card series – two in each league. Here's a full look at the MLB postseason picture: AL wild card standings. Top three reach playoffs
The loss marked the Cubs' fifth straight loss and put them in a tie for the last wild card spot with only 12 games remaining as the Diamondbacks moved ahead of them in the wild card race. [177] September 19 – After another scheduled off day, the Cubs returned home to begin the final homestand of the season against the Pirates. The Cub offense ...
The Cubs’ postseason hopes could not afford a series loss to the lowly Pittsburgh Pirates, yet their spiral continued Thursday with an 8-6 defeat at Wrigley Field. They have dropped 10 of their ...
The Cubs finished the 2015 season in third place in the NL Central, with a record of 97–65, the third best record in the majors and earned a wild card berth. On October 7, in the 2015 National League Wild Card Game, Arrieta pitched a complete game shutout and the Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 4–0. [60]
Beginning in 2012, a second wild card team was added to each league. [2] The two wild card teams in each league face each other in a one-game playoff, the Wild Card Game, with the winner advancing to meet the number one seed in the Division Series. For the 2020 postseason only, the field expanded to include three second-place teams per division ...
Justin Steele has often single-handedly kept the Chicago Cubs in games over the last six months. That has especially been true lately. Five of his previous six starts featured games decided by two ...
The Cubs and Rockies became the first teams in MLB history to lose tiebreaker games at the end of the regular season yet still enter postseason play, [3] as they played in the first divisional tie-breaker games needed since MLB's addition of a second Wild Card team in 2012. The Cubs entered the Wild Card Game with a record of 95–68, while the ...