Matt Murton

The Cubs finished the month of April 13-10 and it makes you wonder: Is that good, because they were without Mark Prior and Kerry Wood the entire time, without Derrek Lee for 10 days and without a victory from Opening Day starter Carlos Zambrano? Or is...

For the second time in three days, the Cubs knew early in their game that wild-card leaders Houston and Florida had lost. But after wasting an opportunity to pick up a game two days earlier, the Cubs rallied to beat the Giants 3-2 Sunday, leaving them 5½...

From 1876 to 2005, no team had swept a season series from the Cubs. But San Diego became the first with a 7-0 record this season. Now it appears lightning might strike twice. Atlanta edged the Cubs 2-1 on Sunday at Turner Field for its sixth straight...

When Houston's Luke Scott doubled into the gap in right-center field with two outs in the ninth Thursday night, the Cubs appeared ready to blow a one-run lead. But Corey Patterson and Jose Macias made perfect throws to nail pinch-runner Charles Gipson as...

Along with throwing 125 pitches in seven innings Thursday night in the Cubs' 5-3 win against San Francisco, Carlos Zambrano threw a temper tantrum as well. Upset that left fielder Matt Murton threw to second base instead of home on a fifth-inning flyout,...

When the Cubs traded Matt Lawton to the New York Yankees on Saturday for a Class A prospect, the guessing game officially began. Is this the start of the end-of-the-season purge? Will Kerry Wood be shut down to get shoulder surgery to give him more time...

Glendon Rusch filled in for Mark Prior with five solid innings and the Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 11-4 Sunday for their third straight win. Prior was scratched before the game with a strained muscle in his left side, suffered while he was taking...

As Carlos Zambrano took the mound Friday night, Hurricane Dennis was inching its way toward south Florida. The question before the Cubs-Marlins game was which force of nature would make a bigger impact—Big Z or the 35-m.p.h. wind gusts swirling through...

Derrek Lee was driven from Des Moines to Minneapolis after Saturday night's game at Triple-A Iowa, getting only a few hours of sleep before his long-awaited return to the Cubs' lineup. The rest of the Cubs had no excuse for sleepwalking through Sunday'...

The Rich Hill conundrum is one that has left the Cubs searching for answers for more than a year now. How can a kid look so untouchable in the minors but so average once he dons a Cubs uniform? Called up from Triple-A Iowa on Thursday for his fifth...

Manager Dusty Baker summed up the feeling of thousands of Cubs fans Wednesday night at Miller Park. "Dang," Baker said. "That was tough to swallow, especially when we kept fighting back and fighting back." Pinch-hitter Jeff Cirillo ended the 3½-hour...

Although manager Dusty Baker's future is being debated non-stop on sports radio and booing has become as prevalent as the ivy, the Cubs finally found a way to change the subject on a chilly night at Wrigley Field. Playing a team with almost as many...