It's all hands on deck as Chicago gears up for the deadline and a high-pressure second half.
As a vital series in Milwaukee looms next week, the question occupies the North Side. The Cubs have given up the NL Central lead they held for more than half the season. The team that had not lost a series all year to a sub-.500 team has now lost two of their last four to such clubs, one of them unthinkably at home.
They confront a classic trap series on the South Side against a rag tag outfit they slaughtered three times two months ago by a cumulative score of 26-8…but one that has won five of its six games since the All-Star break.