Cubs

It might take all 162 games of the long Major League Baseball season to decide the playoff races in both the National League and American League.

The Chicago Cubs are set to host the Miami Marlins in a best-of-three wild-card series starting Wednesday at Wrigley Field.

The Seattle Mariners have agreed to a minor league contract with former All-Star outfielder Carlos González. González was an All-Star from 2012-13, 2016 with Colorado.

Kyle Schwarber had a three-run triple to highlight a five-run seventh, and the Cubs snapped a 24-inning scoreless streak in a 5-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners.

Sister Jean, the popular 98-year-old chaplain of the Loyola-Chicago Ramblers that reached the Final Four. She threw out a first ball for the Cubs' home opener.

The Cubs' game against the Pittsburgh was postponed a day because of steady snowfall that covered much of Wrigley Field. The game is set for 1:20 p.m. Tuesday.

What are the odds! Keith Hupp came up with his second homer souvenir in the NL Championship Series.

(AP) — The New York Yankees needed 18 innings to complete a three-game sweep of the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Aaron Hicks scored the tiebreaking run on Starlin Castro's fielder's choice in the 18th inning to send the Yanks past the Cubbies, 5-4...

(AP) — It was a sweet victory of Ivan Nova on Sunday. Nova limited his former club to a run and four hits over seven innings as the Pirates cooled off the New York Yankees, 2-1 in Pittsburgh. He struck out a season-high seven, walked one and blanked the Yankees until Jacoby Ellsbury's seventh-inning homer...

SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy who was invited to Wrigley Field for a game by Cubs first baseman after suffering a severe beating at his suburban Chicago middle school has returned home from the hospital. Students at Kenyon Woods Middle School in South Elgin, Illinois, have worn Cubs gear in support of Henry Sembdner since the attack. Riz...