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Baseball: Cubs manager Joe Maddon makes lineups three days at a time to help players better prepare

Published on April 30, 2019

CHICAGO — Joe Maddon likes to work on his lineups at a local coffee shop. Armed with his iPad, the manager looks over a variety of statistics and other data while searching for every edge for the Chicago Cubs. The process has been the same →

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Baseball managers, coaches adjust to get most out of millennials

Published on Feb. 27, 2019 | Updated 7:25 a. m.

Millennials make up the vast majority of the major leagues today, and their influence is felt all over the sport. They were the earliest adopters of the advanced statistics that have become commonplace throughout baseball, and they inform much of what they do on the mound or at the plate. They want to know the reasoning behind what their coaches want them to do. →

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10 things to know, Wednesday, Oct. 3

Published on Oct. 3, 2018 | Updated 11:12 a. m.

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. →

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Rockies top Cubs 2-1 in 13-inning epic wild card game

Published on Oct. 3, 2018 | Updated 6:34 a. m.

Tony Wolters hit a tiebreaking single with two outs in the 13th inning and the Colorado Rockies beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 in an epic NL wild-card game. Wolters, a reserve catcher who entered in the 12th, drove in Trevor Story to quiet the Wrigley Field crowd of 40,151 in the longest win-or-go-home postseason game in major league history. Colorado heads to Milwaukee to open a best-of-five Division Series against the NL Central champion Brewers on Thursday. →

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One and not done: Brewers-Cubs, Rockies-Dodgers in tiebreakers

Published on Oct. 1, 2018 | Updated 9:38 a. m.

Triple Crown contender Christian Yelich and the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field. Nolan Arenado and the big-hitting Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium. October baseball is about to begin with Game No. 163 on Monday. Two tiebreakers on the same →

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Hometown hero Bryce Harper wins thrilling Home Run Derby over Kyle Schwarber

Published on July 17, 2018 | Updated 8:02 a. m.

WASHINGTON — The ball cleared the center field wall, and the sellout crowd roared. Bryce Harper threw his bat in the air, thrust both index fingers skyward and yelled with delight as a shower of streamers rained upon the crowd of 43,698. It →

Baseball: Cubs manager Joe Maddon makes lineups three days at a time to help players better prepare

Baseball managers, coaches adjust to get most out of millennials

10 things to know, Wednesday, Oct. 3

Rockies top Cubs 2-1 in 13-inning epic wild card game

One and not done: Brewers-Cubs, Rockies-Dodgers in tiebreakers

Hometown hero Bryce Harper wins thrilling Home Run Derby over Kyle Schwarber

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