CHICAGO -- Manager Joe Maddon calls this part of the year, the one after the Trade Deadline and before rosters expand, the one players have to "fight through." But the Cubs aren't getting much relief as they make that push to the end of the regular season.
Over the course of the next month, Chicago receives just two days off as it makes up games from earlier in the season. But that doesn't worry Maddon any more than it would in May or June, he says. In fact, he has the opposite feeling.
"I'm actually liking the infrequent off-days," Maddon said.