Giants put INF Escobar on NLDS roster against Cubs

The rest has faded away over time. Hint: trying to beat the Giants in San Francisco is going to be pretty hard.

Every Chicago team in the four major sports but the Cubs have won a championship: the Chicago White Sox (two titles), Blackhawks (six titles), Bulls (six titles) and Bears (nine titles).

“At 10 years old and not knowing the sport”, he said.

The Giants played the Chicago Cubs tough in their last trip to Wrigley Field in late May, with all three games decided by a single run, and the Giants losing two out of three.

Despite a near collapse in the second half, momentum is on the Giants’ side, having rattled off five straight wins, outscoring their opponents 29-6, including a 3-0 win over Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers.

Bochy acknowledged there is “no question” the Giants’ rotation is deeper than it was two years ago when they won a title largely on the strength of Bumgarner, who threw 52 2/3 postseason innings with a 1.03 ERA. You know, but I think when it comes down to it, right now, he and I, we’re just focused on winning a series. “I think the neighborhood feel is great”.

After all, this is a team that had a celebration room built just off the main dressing area during a renovation of the its clubhouse last September. “It was mainly that I had so many guys on second base”.

It’s a brand new day for the franchise so used to the annual refrain of “wait “til next year!” The Giants are scheduled to face the Chicago Cubs in Game 1 of a baseball National League Division Series.

The Cubs had the major league’s best record for a reason. (All I’m willing to put money on is that the loudest sound in Chicago on Saturday night will be the avalanche of boos directed at the visiting pitcher.) Nothing the Cubs do is ever easy, not even for this 2016 version (except, well, winning 103 games). Cubs manager Joe Maddon compared these Giants to the 2002 Angels, another wild card that won it all with Maddon as its bench coach.

“Whatever we’ve got to do to win, right?”

“Consider working with us first”, Green said. Although the 2016 Cy Young award victor has yet to be announced, Lester and Hendricks seem to be the top two candidates ranking number one and two in ERA for the season. This series features two outstanding rookies who might be the teams’ most dynamic offensive players, Dodgers SS Corey Seager (.308 average, 26 HRs) and Nationals CF Trea Turner (.342, 13 HRs, 33 SBs in 73 games).

Could this be the year that the Cubs end the World Series drought?

When he was a teenager, he skipped school to go to Wrigley with his friends.

“Well, you know, really, games are too important”, Gibbons told the media in Arlington on Wednesday.

This event got national attention back in 2003, during the National League Championship Series between the Cubs and the Florida Marlins. Instead, it’s best to buy tickets directly from the Cubs or the team’s authorized resale site, Stubhub, officials said. The MLB Playoff Odds for the game have the Cubs listed as a huge favorite to pick up the win.

Anyone who has been to Wrigley can attest to just how unique the area is. “It was just unbelievable what happened”.

Samardzija, a native of nearby Merrillville, Indiana, also played baseball and football at Notre Dame. He was the heavyweight champ of baseball in so many righteous and honorable ways, even if his career was over by 1957.

She became a Cubs fan after she moved to Chicago with her husband.

“It’s nice to win as many games as we did but it doesn’t mean anything now, ” Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant said.

Welcome to one intriguing NL Division Series. The Giants’ “Even Year Magic” can’t cover up those flaws.