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Cubs creep up to edge of NL Wild Card conversation with Crosstown Classic sweep

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The reaction in the dugout didn’t look like that of a team slow to push runs across the plate – players on the top step, banging on the padded railing as the Cubs took a 3-1 lead against the White Sox in the eighth inning.

That lead, claimed on catcher Miguel Amaya’s two-run single into left field, would hold for the Cubs. It was the first game of a four-game season series that didn’t end in a 7-6 Cubs win.