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Fiery Cubs beat Brewers 5-3. Some emotion can't hurt at this point, can it?

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MILWAUKEE — Cubs president Jed Hoyer described to reporters heading into a crucial series against the division-heavyweight Brewers how the lingering malaise and frustration of the season has just kept building upon itself.

“It’s felt sort of like two weeks turned into four, turned into six, has turned into eight,” Hoyer said.

Eight weeks? That’s about like what the bottom of the third inning must have felt like Saturday for the epically struggling Cubs in a game they nevertheless pulled out 5-3.

The Brewers got an infield hit.