It’s make-up Monday for the Cubs as baseball’s regular season winds down. The Cubs have seven games remaining on the schedule, one with the Royals and six on the road with three in Cincinnati and three in Milwaukee. The Cubs square off against the Royals on Monday night in the last game of the regular season at Wrigley Field.
The Cubs enter play Monday 4 ½ games behind the Pirates for home field in the NL Wild Card. While it is unlikely the Cubs will catch the Pirates, Joe Maddon “doesn’t intend to take his foot off the gas in the final week of the regular season” according to a report from ESPN Chicago.