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Trade deadline success doesn’t always match perceptionJul 19, 2025 6:10 pm - The Cubs will be looking for help before the July 31 trade deadline. History has shown those deals can work out very well, but sometimes good moves on paper don’t actually pan out.
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Lincicome: This term is the definition of baseball ridiculousnessJul 19, 2025 10:00 am - “Cockamamie” is not a baseball term, although sabermetrics may yet get around to it. Let’s call it CAM, and make a place for it there beside VORP and WHIP; you know, righ...
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White Sox crush Pirates 10-1 behind homers by Luis Robert Jr. and Edgar QueroJul 18, 2025 8:51 pm - PITTSBURGH — Luis Robert Jr. homered and drove in two runs, Michael A. Taylor added a bases-clearing double and the White Sox breezed past the reeling Pittsburgh Pirates ...
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Suzuki answers all-star snub with first-inning homer as Cubs stop Boston streakJul 18, 2025 6:14 pm - Seiya Suzuki’s first-inning 3-run homer led the Cubs to a 4-1 victory on Friday at Wrigley Field and snapped the Boston Red Sox’ 10-game winning streak.
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With Dick Allen about to be inducted posthumously into Hall of Fame, documentary nears completionJul 18, 2025 5:32 pm - A trailer of the upcoming documentary about former White Sox first baseman Dick Allen, who will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend, five years after his death.
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GM Hoyer has goals for Cubs at trade deadline but needs sense of urgency to arriveJul 18, 2025 3:47 pm - Before the Cubs opened the second half of the season against Boston at Wrigley Field on Friday, president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer gave an update on the Major League Baseball trade market.
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Craig Counsell’s Cubs arrive as World Series contenders, but those pesky Brewers won’t go awayJul 17, 2025 5:59 pm - For all that has gone right so far — Pete Crow-Armstrong blossoming into a superstar, Kyle Tucker pushing to be the offseason’s No. 1 free agent, the Cubs getting unexpected contributions from so many pitchers — the Milwaukee Brewers are still breathing down their necks.
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Kyle Schwarber’s 3 homers in All-Star Game’s first tiebreaking swing-off lift NL over ALJul 15, 2025 11:21 pm - ATLANTA — Kyle Schwarber went 3 for 3 in the first All-Star Game home run swing-off to put the National League ahead 4-3 following a 6-6 tie in which the American League ...
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Matthew Boyd’s winding All-Star journey: ‘One of the best human beings you’re ever going to be around’Jul 15, 2025 10:30 pm - In the summer of 2001, Matthew Boyd’s father surprised him with tickets to the All-Star festivities in Seattle, a dream occasion for a 10-year-old residing in Washington state.
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MLB honors Hank Aaron with recreation of record 715th homer during All-Star GameJul 15, 2025 10:29 pm - ATLANTA — Major League Baseball honored late Hall of Famer Hank Aaron by re-creating his record-breaking 715th home run through the use of projection mapping and pyrotech...