Wake Up and Watch the Cubs Stop the Streak

Although the Cubs have been quite bad for the last two months, one thing they’ve generally done well is avoiding super long losing streaks. They’ve had one five gamer at the longest, and yesterday threatened to match it.

But thankfully the Cubs pulled off the salvage job, beating the Giants in San Francisco:

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