The sky has been falling for a while on the north side of Chicago. Fans are unhappy and, on occasion, booing in Wrigley Field. After all, the Cubs had a 6 ½-game lead in the NL Central after beating the Brewers on June 17, humming along with one of the best offenses in baseball.

As is traditional here at BCB for doubleheaders, there will be only one StoryStream with all the threads for both games. The game preview for Game 2 will post at 5 p.m. CT and will contain a brief summary of Game 1 and all the lineups,

The Chicago Cubs might soon have the crosstown rival White Sox as division rivals. There’s a distinct possibility of that happening should MLB, under the watch of commissioner Rob Manfred, finally flip the switch on the long talked-about league expansion and subsequent division realignment.

The Chicago Cubs traded for Kyle Tucker hoping he'd be the superstar the team had lacked for years, and for the first half of the season, he was exactly that. H

TV channel: All five games are on FanDuel Sports Wisconsin. The Aug. 19 game is also available locally on Fox6 (WITI-TV) in the Milwaukee area, WACY (tv32) and WGBA-NBC 26 in Green Bay, WISC-TV (TVW) in Madison, WKBT-TV in La Crosse and Eau Claire, KDLH-TV and KBJR-TV in Duluth and Superior, and WSAW-TV, WZAW-LD and WYOW in Wausau and Rhinelander.

Dansby Swanson hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 in the rubber game of the weekend series.

Iowa women's basketball coaches Jan Jensen and Lisa Bluder continue their offseason travels as they will be honored at tonight's Chicago Cubs game.

Hayden Christensen took his daughter, Briar Rose, out to the ballgame. The “Star Wars” actor, 44, and his 10-year-old daughter, whom he shares with ex Rachel Bilson, enjoyed a rare public outing together at the Chicago Cubs home game at Wrigley Field on Friday.

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.