Talkin’ Cubs Live – Cubs vs. White Sox – 05/27/13

Game Fifty: Cubs (19-30) vs. White Sox (24-24) Game Time – 6:10pm CDT Coverage – TV: Comcast SportsNet (Cubs), WGN TV (White Sox) – Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channels 178/844 Location – U.S. Cellular Field, South Side of Chicago Jeff Samardzija (2-6, 3.25/1.13) vs. Jose Quintana (3-1, 3.48/1.18) Happy Memorial Day from the CCO [...]

Wood’s Streak Ends … Cubs Drop Sixth Straight – Cubs 2, Reds 5

Game Forty-Eight – Cubs 2, Reds 5 WP – Homer Bailey (3-3) LP – Travis Wood (4-3) Save – Aroldis Chapman (12) Travis Wood’s string of nine consecutive quality starts to begin the season came to an end on Saturday in Cincinnati … and once again it was one bad inning that did in a [...]

Talkin’ Cubs Live – Cubs vs. Reds – 05/25/13

Game Forty-Eight: Cubs (18-29) vs. Reds (30-18) Game Time – 3:10pm CDT Coverage – TV: WGN TV – Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channels 184/844 Location – Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati Travis Wood (4-2, 2.24/0.93) vs. Homer Bailey (2-3, 3.09/1.11) The Cubs will shoot to put an end to their season-long five-game losing streak [...]

Talkin’ Cubs Live – Cubs vs. Reds – 05/24/13

Game Forty-Seven: Cubs (18-28) vs. Reds (29-18) Game Time – 6:10pm CDT Coverage – TV: WGN TV – Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channels 184/844 Location – Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati Scott Feldman (4-3, 2.19/1.16) vs. Bronson Arroyo (4-4, 3.28/1.11) The Cubs difficult eight game road trip continues tonight with the first of three [...]

Garza and Almora Ready for Season Debuts … and Other Cubs News and Notes

Two players that began the season on the disabled list are set to make their 2013 debuts, Matt Garza and Albert Almora. While one will be on a big league mound on Tuesday night in Pittsburgh and the other one will be patrolling the outfield in Single-A ballpark, having both players back on the field [...]

Shoulda, Coulda, Wooda – Cubs 3, Mets 4

Game Forty-Three – Cubs 3, Mets 4 WP – Scott Rice (2-3) LP – Kyuji Fujikawa (1-1) Save – Bobby Parnell (6) Travis Wood notched his ninth straight quality start but it was not enough as the Cubs lost their first series to the Mets at Wrigley Field since 2007. The Cubs took a 3-1 [...]

Talkin’ Cubs Live – Cubs vs. Mets – 05/19/13

Game Forty-Three: Cubs (18-24) vs. Mets (16-24) Game Time – 1:20pm CDT Coverage – TV: WGN TV – Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channels 188/844 Location – Wrigley Field, Chicago Travis Wood (4-2, 2.03/0.92) vs. Dillon Gee (2-5, 6.13/1.74) The Cubs wrap up the six-game homestand this afternoon with a rubber-game against the Mets. The [...]

Talkin’ Cubs Live – Cubs vs. Mets – 05/17/13

Game Forty-One: Cubs (17-23) vs. Mets (15-23) Game Time – 1:20pm CDT Coverage – TV: WGN TV – Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channels 183/844 Location – Wrigley Field, Chicago Edwin Jackson (1-5, 6.02/1.57) vs. Matt Harvey (4-0, 1.44/0.73) The fourth place Chicago Cubs opens a three-game series with the New York Mets this afternoon [...]

Travis Wood, Extra Basehits and Three W’s in a Row – Cubs 9, Rockies 1

Game Thirty-Eight – Cubs 9, Rockies 1 WP – Travis Wood (4-2) LP – Juan Nicasio (3-1) Save – None The Cubs equaled their season-long winning streak with an impressive victory over the Rockies on Monday night. Dale Sveum’s team won for the third day in a row behind seven innings of shutout ball from [...]

Talkin’ Cubs Live – Cubs vs. Rockies – 05/13/13

Game Thirty-Eight: Cubs (15-22) vs. Rockies (20-17) Game Time – 7:05pm CDT Coverage – TV: WCIU – Radio: 720 WGN, XM Radio Channels 185/844 Location – Wrigley Field, Chicago Travis Wood (3-2, 2.33/0.93) vs. Juan Nicasio (3-0, 4.72/1.40) The Cubs are coming off an impressive trip to Washington D.C and open a six-game homestand tonight [...]