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On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Padres Wild Card Series preview
Well, here we are again. This is, as you all know, a rematch of last year’s Wild Card Series, won two games to one by the Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Padres had one of the best home records in MLB this year at 51-30. That included going 10-2 at home in September, although six […]
Cubs announce Wild Card Series roster
Here are the 26 players who will be available to face the Padres in the best-of-three Wild Card Series which begins this evening at Petco Park in San Diego. Players are listed in alphabetical order by position. Infielders (6) Gabriel Arias, Alex Bregman, Michael Busch, Nico Hoerner, Pedro Ramírez, Dansby Swanson No surprises here. Outfielders […]
MLB Wild Card Series Game 1: Phillies at Braves, White Sox at Astros, Red Sox at Yankees
The Cubs and Padres will be the last of the four Wild Card Series to get underway today. That game will begin at 9 p.m. CT and I will have the usual game preview up at 7 p.m. CT. In the meantime, there are three other Wild Card games today, so this is an all-purpose […]
A look back at all six Cubs/Padres games from the 2026 regular season
Well, here we go again — for the second straight season, the Cubs and Padres meet in a Wild Card Series. Last year, the Cubs won it in Wrigley Field. This year, they’ll have to do that in San Diego. If the regular season results are any indication, they can do it. The Cubs took […]
BCB roundtable: 2026 Cubs vs. Padres Wild Card Series
BCB’s front-page writers have done several of these roundtable discussions previewing Cubs seasons and postseasons, so here we are again to get ready for the Wild Card Series that begins this evening. Josh, Sara, Thomas, Jeff and I had a lively online conversation Monday afternoon. The online chat has been lightly edited for clarity. Ashley […]
Chicago Cubs news — Bregman, Taylor, Conforto, Garrett
Today’s Reflections Sunday’s game didn’t matter. The playoff positions had been solidified. It was a good day to rest your players as the team heads to the playoffs. It wasn’t an off day for Alex Bregman. After his miraculous return on Friday, Bregman does what he does best — viewed videos of his hitting. After […]
Cubs BCB After Dark: Is Matthew Boyd the right call?
It’s Monday here at BCB After Dark: the hippest spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Come on in and join us. We’re always glad to see a friend and everyone here is a friend. There’s no cover charge. There are still a few tables available. There’s no cover charge. […]
The Short Porch and the Cubs have jet lag
The end of the 2026 season has been a rocky road for the Chicago Cubs. September was one of two months that saw them post sub-.500 marks on the season with an 11-13 record. They finished exactly .500 in their last 10 games. They dropped two winnable games against the Red Sox and two winnable […]
A look at Cubs postseason history
As we await the Cubs playing starting tomorrow in a Wild Card series against the Padres, let’s take a look back at the team’s long Modern Era postseason history. That history dates to 1906, when the team lost the World Series to the White Sox after winning a record 116 games during the regular season […]
Reflections as the 2026 Postseason begins: Why the Cubs could win the World Series
I’m thinking of a baseball team. With a little more than a week to go in the season, they were comfortably in a wild card spot, having gotten there with multiple long winning streaks. Then… they just stopped scoring runs. They went on the road at the end of the season and could barely muster […]
Chicago Cubs update: Seiya Suzuki, Alex Bregman, Pete Crow-Armstrong
The good news is that the Cubs allowed only 20 runs in the six games over the past week, and six of those were in the 12th inning on Tuesday. So in general, the pitching staff did its job. The bad news, unfortunately, is that the Cubs scored only 15 runs over the six games, […]
2026 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Alex Bregman is the Superhero vs. the Red Sox
Sunday was a Game 162 that will have an enhanced footnote in Cub history. Games in Japan. Games in England. A game against the Astros in Milwaukee and now a game against the Red Sox in Tampa. It hits a little different when the game has a footprint that steps outside of the normal unending […]
MLB News: MLB Postseason, Justin Verlander retires, Max Scherzer, Christian Yelich, Pete Alonso, Dan Wilson
Some moments in baseball feel so cinematic they barely seem to be real, and this weekend we saw one such moment in the final start of Justin Verlander’s career. In A League of Their Own, Tom Hanks famously declares, “There’s no crying in baseball!” but this weekend proved that things were a little more like […]
Chicago Cubs history unpacked — September 28
Free of charge for the discerning reader. Happy birthday to Enoli Paredes, and a mighty host of others. Today in baseball history, in 1930 – As a Yankee, Babe Ruth returns to the mound after a nine-year absence at Fenway Park and pitches a complete game, beating the Red Sox, 9-3. The last time the “Bambino” took the mound, he defeated […]
Cubs 6, Red Sox 2: Alex Bregman is more than ready for the postseason
Last Sunday, Alex Bregman was hit in the face by a foul ball off the bat of Michael Busch in Cincinnati. He suffered facial fractures and missed three games. Bregman came back Friday as the DH and Sunday, just a bit over exactly one week since that accident, he hit two home runs and also […]
Cubs vs. Red Sox at Tropicana Field, Sunday 9/27, 2:05 CT live!
Go get ‘em, Shōta.
Chicago Cubs vs. Boston Red Sox at Tropicana Field preview, Sunday 9/27, 2:05 CT
Sunday notes… Cubs lineup: Red Sox lineup: Shōta Imanaga, LHP vs. Tanner Houck, RHP I’m actually a bit surprised that Shōta Imanaga is starting this game, unless the plan is to have him only go a couple of innings so he could be available maybe on Thursday against the Padres. Imanaga has had a very […]
Cubs vs. Red Sox at Tropicana Field Sunday 9/27 game threads
Cubs vs. Red Sox at Tropicana Field, Sunday 9/27, 2:05 CT live! Chicago Cubs vs. Boston Red Sox at Tropicana Field preview, Sunday 9/27, 2:05 CT
The Cubs and Padres TV schedule is for late-night baseball in the Wild Card Series
Get ready to stay up late, Cubs fans. Major League Baseball announced the TV schedule for the Wild Card Series Sunday and the Cubs, at least for Games 1 and 2 Tuesday and Wednesday, will be playing at 9 p.m. Central time. Here’s the entire schedule for the first two days of Wild Card baseball: […]
The Cubs will face the Padres in the Wild Card Series… in San Diego
As late as Saturday afternoon, the Cubs still had a chance to host Wild Card Series games. Or go to Atlanta to play the Braves. With the Padres’ win over the Diamondbacks Saturday evening in San Diego, they clinched the top wild card spot over the Cubs. That was San Diego’s 90th win of the […]
Chicago Cubs news — Peterson, Holmes, Busch
Today’s Reflections That was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad time to drop a doubleheader. The two losses by the scores of 4-3 and 2-0 tells us two things: that unless the Red Sox have weak hitters, the Cubs pitching staff had its strong moments, but there is no way they can carry the team […]
MLB Wild Card race: Rays at Phillies, Diamondbacks at Padres
I thought many of you would like to follow along this evening with the two games that could affect the Cubs’ postseason position, since the Cubs are off today. Here’s what you need to know about the Phillies/Rays and Padres/Diamondbacks games. Rays at Phillies, 6:15 p.m. CT Griffin Jax, RHP (Rays) vs. Aaron Nola, RHP […]
A brief history of Cubs neutral site games
Sunday afternoon at 2:05 p.m. CT, the Cubs and Boston Red Sox will play Game 162 of the 2026 regular season at the home of the Tampa Bay Rays, Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., a neutral site. The Cubs played there earlier this year, taking two of three from the Rays back in April, […]
Here’s how the Cubs can still host Wild Card Series games at Wrigley Field
The Cubs, seemingly headed to having home field in the first round of the 2026 postseason, have a no good, very bad, terrible week so far. They’ve lost four of the five games played and scored just nine runs total — and that was in four of the games, as they got shut out in […]
2026 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Miguel Amaya and David Peterson are the Superheroes vs. the Red Sox
The same story we’ve been seeing played out. With the wind howling in, the Cubs couldn’t hit the ball out of the park. The Cubs lost two games. The Cubs last won a game in which they didn’t homer on July 30 against the Cardinals. Fortunately, the team hits a lot of homers, because they […]
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