The Cubs have fallen well behind the Brewers. Now, one of their key players may cost them a chance at a title.

He lasted 2.2 innings on Monday, allowing a run on a Brice Turang homer, with four hits, a walk, and three strikeouts. Cubs manager Craig Counsell visited Horton on the mound twice in the early innings before ultimately pulling him. Horton had thrown seven consecutive pitches outside the strike zone before his exit.

The Chicago Cubs are seriously down on their luck. The team has posted a feeble 3-7 record in their last 10 games and has fallen 9 games behind the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Central Division.

Kyle Tucker is set to be a free agent this winter. The contract he is setting up to get is going to be a huge one.

"Things not going right is not what's happening," Cubs manager Craig Counsell said Friday of his team's recent struggles that have seen Chicago lose its past three series.

As the July 31 trade deadline neared, the Cubs, with one of the best records in baseball, were cast by seemingly all the national experts as big swingers, total movers and shakers, on the short list of contenders that were ready to pounce on major opportunities to improve their World Series chances. Remember that nonsense?

Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell gave an update on catcher Miguel Amaya after leaving the game on Wednesday with a scary injury.

When the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs in the opener of a 5-game series, it bunched the top 4 NL wild-card contenders within 5 1/2 games.

The MLB playoffs are quickly approaching, and there has been a lot of movement in the wild card standings — and the playoff odds — in the last week. For the res