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Each night in the 2016 baseball season, we'll run down the top news, facts and highlights from action around Major League Baseball.

The Cubs might want to take on the moniker of the Windy City's MLS team, because they're on fire.

They won their sixth straight game Saturday with an 8-5 victory over the Nationals at Wrigley Field.

The Cubs (23-6) scored six of their eight runs in their final three offensive innings. Chicago got three in the sixth, a pair of runs in the seventh and a final tally in the eighth. Leading the way was shortstop Addison Russell, who went 2-for-4 with a walk and three RBIs.