It didn’t take long for Counsell to go to his bullpen in Game 1, bringing in his best arm, Daniel Palencia, in the fifth inning to face Fernando Tatis Jr., who lined out to Seiya Suzuki in right field ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Seiya Suzuki watched the playoffs on TV after each of his first three years in the majors. It was a frustrating experience for the Japanese slugger. Tuesday was much, much better.

CHICAGO — The postseason often comes down to individual moments making the difference between victory and defeat. And in the shorter format of the wild-card round, those individual moments loom even ...

The Craig Counsell-led Cubs defeated the San Diego Padres in the first game of their best-of-three wild-card series on Tuesday, Sept. 30. A victory on Oct. 1 would set up a must-see showdown between ...

The Cubs were the first team to get Dylan Cease used to baseball as a business as they traded him to the White Sox when he was in A-ball ...

The road to World Series glory can be paved in a myriad of ways. Each of the 12 teams hoping to be the last ones standing in this year’s postseason have been constructed in very different ways. There ...

The San Diego Padres scored first, but it was the Chicago Cubs who came away victorious in Game 1 of the NL Wild Card series.  Back-to-back home runs from Seiya ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Seiya Suzuki and Carson Kelly hit back-to-back homers, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the San Diego Padres 3-1 on Tuesday in Game 1 of their NL Wild Card Series. Chicago also got a ...

San Diego Padres offense vanishes again in Game 1 of NL Wild Card Series vs. Chicago Cubs as MLB postseason scoring drought worsens.

CHICAGO - For the first time since 2020, Playoff Baseball returned to Wrigley Field as the Chicago Cubs and the San Diego Padres kicked off their best-of-three ...

Entering Game 1 of Tuesday's National League wild-card series, the Chicago Cubs hadn't won a postseason game since 2017. That cannot be said anymore as Chicago used timely hitting and a stellar ...

That would be tenured right-hander Colin Rea, who made 27 starts for the Cubs during the regular season and will work as a multi-inning volume reliever for them in October. That's another point of ...