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The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. The team plays its home games at Wrigley Field, located on the city's North Side.
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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 American League teams play with a "designated hitter", a player who bats in place of the pitcher and does not play in the field. In the National League, the pitcher must bat along with the other players. In games played in teams from both leagues, the rule that the home team usually plays by is used.
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The current NL pennant winners are the Washington Nationals, who won the franchise's first NL pennant in October 2019.
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['Houston Astros. Previous: 3, Team Rating: 89, Strength: Bullpen, Starting Pitching, Offense, Weakness: None. ... ', 'Los Angeles Dodgers. Previous: 1, Team Rating: 93, Strengths: Starting Pitching, Offense, Weaknesses: Speed. ... ', 'New York Yankees. ... ', 'Minnesota Twins. ... ', 'Atlanta Braves. ... ', 'Cleveland Indians. ... ', 'Oakland Athletics. ... ', 'Washington Nationals.']
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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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The National League Championship Series (NLCS) and American League Championship Series (ALCS), since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2–3–2 format: Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home-field advantage, and Games 3, 4, and 5 are played in the stadium of the team ...
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Interleague play in Major League Baseball refers to regular-season baseball games played between an American League (AL) team and a National League (NL) team. Interleague play was first introduced in the 1997 Major League Baseball season.
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The Washington Nationals defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 7-3, in 10 innings in Game 5 of the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night. Washington advances to the NL Championship Series to face the St. Louis Cardinals.
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The current AL pennant holders are the Houston Astros who won in October 2019. In 1969, the AL split into two divisions, and the teams with the best records in each division played one another in the five-game ALCS to determine the pennant winner, who received (and continues to receive) the William Harridge Trophy.
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Brewers beat Cubs in NL Central tiebreaker, relegate Chicago to Tuesday's wild-card game. On a historic day in Major League Baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers pulled off a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs in a one-game playoff for the National League Central title at Wrigley Field.
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The league's founder was Chicago Cubs owner and chewing gum magnate Philip K. Wrigley. He started the league out of a concern that men's major league baseball would suffer when players were called for military service.
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The winner of the ALCS wins the AL pennant and advances to the World Series, MLB's championship series, to play the winner of the National League's (NL) Championship Series. The ALCS began in 1969 as a best-of-five playoff and used this format until 1985, when it changed to its current best-of-seven format.
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It has been by far the longest TV partnership in baseball, but the number of Cubs games left to be broadcast on WGN TV is down to less than a half dozen. ... Beginning in 2020, Cubs games will be seen locally on the Marquee Sports Network, which is set to debut early next year.
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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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Craig Michael Kimbrel (born May 28, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, and Boston Red Sox. He is a seven-time All-Star, two-time Reliever of the Year, and a 2018 World Series champion.
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Marquee Sports Network, jointly owned by the Cubs and Sinclair Broadcast Group, is the new home of Chicago Cubs baseball. Mediacom says the channel is available to viewers who subscribe to Variety TV. Mediacom customers will find Marquee Sports Network at channel # 768 HD or # 51.