are cubs in first place?
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When the Cubs got to Wrigley Field on Monday, April 8 for their first home game of the season, they were 2-7 and some among the baseball punditry were giving in to the temptation to write the 2019 Cubs obituary. But in less than a month since, the Cubs have climbed to first place in the National League Central.
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HOF final voting results CHICAGO -- Kerry Wood and Carlos Zambrano had great seasons with the Cubs, but the two pitchers did not garner enough votes from the Baseball Writers' Association of America to remain on the Hall of Fame ballot. ... Wood was named the National League Rookie of the Year that season.
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The two series winners move on to the best-of-seven ALCS. Home field advantage goes to the team with the better regular season record (or head-to-head record if there is a tie between two or more teams), except for the wild card team, which never receives the home field advantage.
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The Cubs offer internet views of most Wrigley vantages, but seat-by-seat views are conspicuously absent. The bleachers are the most iconic seats in the ballpark, and for good reason. ... Bleacher seats are general admission during the regular season but assigned for the playoffs.
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The Red Sox and New York Yankees have been a wild card seven times. The Colorado Rockies have been a wild card five times. ... Louis Cardinals, the Houston Astros, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Orioles, the New York Mets, the Giants, the Chicago Cubs, and the Tampa Bay Rays have been a wild card three times each.
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early to get out to Wrigley. On a sunny day, Wrigley is the place to be!! Another good reason the Cubs have so many day games is the weather. Wrigley Field being so close to the lake makes typical cold days into very cold days.
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David Ross to be named Chicago Cubs manager, per report The 42-year-old Ross has served as an advisor for the Cubs while also working as an analyst for ESPN. Ross does not have managerial experience.
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['Boston Braves.', 'Boston Red Sox.', 'Brooklyn Dodgers.', 'Chicago Cubs.', 'Chicago White Sox.', 'Cincinnati Reds.', 'Cleveland Indians.', 'Detroit Tigers.']
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The 2018 National League Central tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2018 regular season, played between the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs to determine the champion of the National League's (NL) Central Division.
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Instead they seem to throw the runner advancing to first out first. ... Generally speaking, it has to do with the number of outs, how hard the ball was hit, whether the runners were stealing at the time, where the ball was hit and the score and inning of the game.
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['Arizona Diamondbacks.', 'Atlanta Braves.', 'Baltimore Orioles.', 'Boston Red Sox.', 'Chicago White Sox.', 'Chicago Cubs.', 'Cincinnati Reds.', 'Cleveland Indians.']
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The rules for matches set out by the American Cribbage Congress specify that the LOSER of the previous game deals first (and thus has the crib first) in the next game. (For instance, see rule 1.5a on their site.)
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['1906 Chicago Cubs: 116-36 (.763), lost World Series. ... ', '2001 Seattle Mariners: 116-46 (.716), lost in ALCS. ... ', '1998 New York Yankees: 114-48 (.704), won World Series. ... ', '1954 Cleveland Indians: 111-43 (.721), lost World Series. ... ', '1927 New York Yankees: 110-44 (.714), won World Series.']
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The Cubs play in the National League (NL) and have won three World Series titles (1907, 1908, and 2016). The team, originally known as the Chicago White Stockings, was a charter member of the NL in 1876 and had quick success.
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The AL has been getting the better of the NL for nearly a decade now, and you can see by the run differentials that it hasn't been particularly close. Even as the National League has taken control of the All-Star Game and the World Series, the American League has still been the better overall league.
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Back to back second place finishes is nothing to scoff at but Datto put it best when he said, “I have plenty of goals and all of those goals can be practiced; only 1 world first.” There is only 1 World first, one team that can achieve greatness for that particular raid, and although high placings are impressive, we ...
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The Nationals won the series, four games to three, to secure their first title in franchise history. Washington pitcher Stephen Strasburg was named the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) after earning two wins in the series.