Is the race to win the national league center already over?
You don't have to start a story with a question. They teach these things at the school of journalism, or at least they returned in the old days when dinosaurs wandered the world, and we have transmitted our thoughts about sports by scraping random forms such as torpedo bats on the sides of the caves.
Anyway. There is no trace of questions in Lede. That was the norm.
However, Chicago Cubs breaks its norms this season and perhaps follow the case.
For 109 years, the pups called Wrigley Field to his home. Although a beautiful basketball court stuck in a live neighborhood and the latest renovations have changed the old-level charm of the region with a more modern and sterile (and expensive) vibe, there is still nothing in the afternoon in Wrigley.
One of the many things to be loved about the stadium is that it has a jug park for decades and decades. And it was a striking park.
Everything depends on the moon.
At the beginning of the season, before returning to green on the ivy outer wall, the park traditionally preferred the field. It can be quite cold in Chicago in April, and permanent winds in Lake Michigan can overthrow fly balls without regret.
Then the transition to the warmer temperatures comes and in June, July and August to the heart of the summer, the ball is definitely jumps from the bats of the Vurigley in Wrigley. In some other basketball field, a routine fly ball to the left can sail on the wall and descend to the famous bleaches.
Quite simple, isn't it?
Cold games at the beginning of cold games, less crime. Hot games in the heart of summer, more offensive.
This season is already different in Chicago. In the first week of May and CUBS runs like 4 July in the corner.
Thanks to their first 36 matches, CUBS is the third in the main branches, the base percentage (.338) and the third in the leech percentage (.456). This adds only the .794 OPS following New York Yankees (.811) and Los Angeles Dodgers (.795).
The offspring are in the first, fifth on twice the hits, the first third and third house runs. Oh, and in the meantime, they lead the main branches with 46 stolen bases in 53 attempts.
Running! We almost forgot the runs. They entered 217 running on Tuesday. Yankees is second with 190 running behind Chicago's tempo.
All this is happening in the season when the pups should face the biggest challenges to score goals. If they do this now, imagine what they can do when it's 95 degrees and the sun is beaten.
Cubs Catcher Carson Kelly said that he and his teammates scored in various ways.
Kel I mean, incredibly, Kel Kelly said on Monday after 9-2 wins against San Francisco Giants. “You see today – pressure on other teams can lead to some mistakes and start a rally.
The NL Central Playoff race is a bit of a language to argue that the end of the race, but the offspring is the first class to escape the episode while the season continues.
The pups entering on Tuesday were 22-14 years old and a four-game leader on Cincinnati Reds and Milwaukee Brewers. He was a five -game leader on Louis Cardinals and a 10 -game leader against Pittsburgh pirates.
In addition to the advantage, the pups finish playing Dodgers, San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks for the rest of the normal season. The rest of the NL West programs contain six games against Colorado Rockies and five games against Giants.
Thus, the pups challenged the possibility of starting the season as an aggressive power center. Although the Reds were young and exciting, they created a separation against a NL center section without a monster. And they completed their normal season games against some challenging teams in the league.
The last date of trade is the NL Central teams, which have the ability to increase their payrolls if they want. Groups can be stronger than the group they have today.
Is the race over?
This is a valid question, even if the CUBS's 2025 story is just the beginning.
