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Diamondbacks 8, Cubs 3: game notes
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Two Cub errors, four wild pitches by a Cub reliever in one inning and 12 hits by the Diamondbacks added up to an 8-3 loss for the Cubs in a sloppy game at Salt River Fields in north...
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Cubs game notes: Fowler gets on, Soler goes deep, pen steps up
MESA, Ariz. — Starter Jon Lester pitched around enough traffic and a few of his own fielding issues to complete five productive innings to earn the win in the Cubs’ 5-2 Cactus League victory over the...
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Cubs’ Dexter Fowler ‘not worried at all’ about left side injury
MESA, Ariz. — Dexter Fowler, who left Sunday’s game after one inning with tightness in his left side, said Monday the injury should have no impact on his availability to start the season in one week....
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Dexter Fowler is a leadoff man on a mission for Cubs
ANAHEIM, Calif. — A few moments before the first pitch of the Cubs’ season was thrown Monday, manager Joe Maddon smiled and told his leadoff man what he had told him four or five times a day last...
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First-place problems: Cubs losing more one-run games than most
The Cubs are the team that can’t be blown out. They are 6-6 in one-run games, 3-5 in two-run games, 2-1 in three-run games, 3-0 in four-run games and — are you ready for this? — 17-2 in games decided...
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Cubs’ Fowler leaves game with hamstring discomfort
Cubs centerfielder Dexter Fowler left Saturday night’s game against the Pirates with right hamstring discomfort. Fowler did not come out of the dugout for the second inning after he grounded out while...
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Cubs notebook: Extent of Fowler’s hamstring injury uncertain
Dexter Fowler missed Sunday night’s game against the Pirates as he continues to experience soreness in his right hamstring. Fowler left Saturday night’s game after he injured his hamstring while...
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Cubs notebook: Fowler headed to 15-day disabled list; Edwards up
The Cubs put center fielder and leadoff hitter Dexter Fowler on the 15-day disabled list Monday with a right hamstring strain. Fowler suffered the injury while running out a ground ball Saturday....
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Star gazing: Cubs close in on All-Star history
The entire Cubs infield and center fielder Dexter Fowler maintained their top spots in National League All-Star fan voting with barely a week left until online polling closes. If Wednesday’s balloting...
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Fowler return from DL ruled out for weekend but not All-Star Game
Cubs center fielder Dexter Fowler, whose strained hamstring might be the Cubs’ most costly injury so far this season, started a brief minor-league rehab assignment Friday with Class A South Bend....
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Optics illusion: No All-Star return from DL for Fowler, after all
PITTSBURGH – After batting four times as the DH in a minor-league rehab game Friday, center fielder Dexter Fowler pulled the plug on his effort to fast-track his return from the disabled list in time...
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OK, Cubs — time to see if you can win your way to No. 103
One year ago, the Cubs reported for work on the next-to-last Friday of July with a promising enough record of 51-43. If they weren’t yet of the same class as the Cardinals, or even the Pirates, they...
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Back in the swing: Fowler returns from DL with sudden impact
MILWAUKEE – The first thing Joe Maddon said to Dexter Fowler when he showed up in the Cubs’ clubhouse Friday ready to come off the disabled list was, naturally, “You go, we go.” It’s been a four-word...
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Fowler sparks Cubs with three hits in 3-2 win over Marlins
You go. We go. The four words seem simplistic and yet, when it comes to how Cubs’ manager Joe Maddon describes the importance of Dexter Fowler’s leadoff role, the same collection of nine letters...
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Cardinals relocate Cubs’ division-clinching party to Wrigley
ST. LOUIS – Load up the bandwagon and beer kegs. The Cubs’ division-title party just got postponed and moved to Wrigley Field. The Cardinals hit a pair of two-run homers off Cubs starter Jason Hammel...
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Moments and momentum from a 103-victory season
CINCINNATI — If you ask Anthony Rizzo what stands out to him during an All-Star season that could include a Gold Glove, maybe even an MVP award, along with 103 victories, you get a blank stare. “I...
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They go, Cubs go: Fowler, rotation starts of big things in 2016
Nobody, including Cubs players, saw it coming – especially after news reports 3,000 miles away said it wasn’t. But then Dexter Fowler showed up with team president Theo Epstein in the middle of morning...
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Are we seeing Dexter Fowler’s final days in a Cubs uniform?
Cubs manager Joe Maddon used to have a four-word message for leadoff man Dexter Fowler before every game: “You go, we go.” The message hasn’t changed, though its phrasing has been cut by half. “Now, he...
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Cubs’ Fowler soaks in more significant culture change since 1945
CLEVELAND – Of all the significance tied to the Cubs being in the World Series for the first time since 1945, Dexter Fowler might feel the weight of that moment more than anyone else on the team....
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7 top moments from Cubs 7-game World Series win over Indians
1. Kyle Schwarber’s return: After what was thought to be a season-ending knee injury in the Cubs’ third regular-season game, Schwarber returned to the lineup for Game 1 of the World Series in...
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