Scott Eyre

The Cubs have suffered some heartbreaking injuries the last few years, to Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, Nomar Garciaparra and several others. But having two players go down on the same play, as Derrek Lee and Scott Eyre did during the seventh inning of...

Manager Dusty Baker said Rich Hill gave the Cubs everything he had in a seven-inning, 93-pitch outing Saturday against St. Louis. Hill wholeheartedly agreed after allowing one run on four hits, arguably his best outing of the season. But after the...

It was a day of unusual happenings at Wrigley Field, but then what else is new in this strangest of seasons? Other than their first series victory at home since mid-August, the most unusual occurrence was Bob Howry coming out to save Thursday's 6-5...

The managerial merry-go-round hasn't begun running, but reports that Washington Nationals manager Frank Robinson is on his way out could be good news for Dusty Baker and bad news for Jim Hendry. Baker may be a candidate for the opening if his four-year...

He was calm amid the confusion, though he admitted he didn't know what was going on. "I don't know what was happening on the bases, but it was kind of fun to watch," Greg Maddux said. And Maddux—cool and collected on a scorching day at Wrigley Field—was...

It was a tale of two seasons in one precious moment, played out in brilliant sunshine on a windy summer afternoon in a city where baseball is secondary only to breathing. In one corner stood the Cubs, the perpetually downtrodden team on pace to tie a...

Trying to save Juan Mateo's life, Dusty Baker almost cost the Cubs a win on Tuesday night. Instead his decision not to expose Mateo to retaliation from a seemingly angry Roger Clemens merely set up one of the longest, craziest nights in Cubs history. A...

The Cubs look to be playing out the string in September, but general manager Jim Hendry's to-do list figures to keep him busy. Besides going over his list of potential managerial candidates for 2007, Hendry must decide how much Juan Pierre is worth,...

With the trading deadline coming in less than two weeks, Carlos Marmol and Phil Nevin may have helped cement their futures Tuesday night. Granted, they may wind up in different spots, because Marmol has pitched his way into "untouchable" territory with...

The smallest crowd at Wrigley Field in four years watched the Cubs plummet to the depths of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on an otherwise perfect Thursday afternoon on the North Side. Pittsburgh center fielder Chris Duffy hit the first two home runs of his...

The most common misperception about the clubhouse of a losing baseball team is that everyone mopes around and feels sorry for themselves all the time. In reality, as the Cubs prove on a near daily basis, the players know the show must go on and there's...

Greg Maddux has proved he's weatherproof in the first week of the 2006 season, winning in arctic conditions in the home opener Friday and with the wind blowing out on a summerlike afternoon on Wednesday. In his final start before he turns 40 Friday,...