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MLB Team Report - Chicago Cubs - INSIDE PITCH After Thursday's 4-2 loss at Pittsburgh, the Cubs have dropped four in a row.

Before Friday's game, Cubs assistant hitting coach Rob Deer razzed pitcher Scott Feldman about missing the hitters' meeting.

Double-A Tennessee will join outfielder Ty Wright in his efforts to raise funds for the tornado victims in Oklahoma.

Pittsburgh's Travis Snider takes a curtain call on the dugout steps after hitting a grand slam off Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Shawn Camp during the sixth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.

The Pirates have been playing inspired baseball as of late, winning the first two in their series against the Cubs to give them 10 victories in 12 games.

Francisco Liriano pitched seven shutout innings as the Pittsburgh Pirates blanked the Chicago Cubs, 1-0, in the middle test of a three-game series.

Before Tuesday's game, manager Dale Sveum was asked about the importance of having Matt Garza back in the rotation.

As the Mets and Cubs navigate their way through the early part of the 2013 season, winning one series at a time is the most important step toward inching their records closer to the .500 mark.

The Cubs made another error in Saturday's 8-2 win over the Mets at Wrigley Field, upping their season total to 34, the second-most in the Major Leagues.

There are Mets games started by Matt Harvey , and then there are other Mets games.

Matt Harvey gave up two early runs and then shut down the Cubs over the next 6.1 innings, as the Mets beat the Cubs yesterday 3-2. Harvey helped himself out as he broke a 2-2 tie with a run scoring single.

Ike Davis spent some extra time in the batting cage in St. Louis Thursday afternoon, before the Mets left for Chicago.

The Cubs got some of their worst third-base coaching in nearly a decade Friday afternoon, and it likely cost them the game.

Jeff Samardzija hit a two-run home run and pitched eight strong innings for his first win since opening day and the Chicago Cubs beat the Colorado Rockies 6-3 on Wednesday night.

We know Stephen Strasburg can be a stubborn, hard-nosed competitor. We saw it last season when the Washington Nationals insisted on shutting him down early and Strasburg tried every trick in the book to avoid it.

The noise about Chatwood, Pomeranz, and Oswalt has put Juan Nicasio and Jeff Francis on notice.

Jeff Francis surrendered one run in six innings and Carlos Gonzalez went 5-for-5 with two home runs as the Colorado Rockies downed the Chicago Cubs, 9-4, in the second tilt of a three-game set at Wrigley Field.

Nationals starter Gio Gonzalez had a perfect game going through five innings and despite Scott Feldman holding up his end of the pitchers' duel with just one run allowed in the first, things were not looking bright for the Cubs to pull this one out.

After spending much of the weekend talking about the rise of the Washington Nationals as a role model for their own rebuilding process, the Cubs showed an even more aggressive approach than the Nats took.

Anthony Rizzo makes a diving catch as Darwin Barney looks on during the eighth inning against the Nationals.