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Road worriers? Cubs travel to coronavirus hot spot for 'nerve-wracking' trip

Forget the Brewers and everything that happened over the weekend.

Playing baseball during a pandemic now starts to get real for the Cubs.

After beating the Brewers 9-1 on Sunday to win their opening series, the Cubs travel outside Chicago for the first time Monday — and into one of the hottest coronavirus hot spots among the eight road cities on their schedule, Cincinnati, for a four-game series.

"Obviously the traveling is the part I think a lot of guys are worried about," pitcher Alec Mills said.

News from Cincinnati Sunday didn't help.