Matt Clement

Roger Clemens kept the Cubs in their deep sleep Wednesday, showing the stuff that has made him one of the game's greats. Clemens (8-0) earned his 317th career victory with a 5-1 victory over the Cubs, who have lost seven of nine games. "We ran into a...

Like you, we're stuck at work, forced to follow the game as discreetly as possible. We're hiding in our cubicle with the office chair cranked as low as it can go. It's important to keep up the illusion of actual work going on. That's why it wouldn't be...

Sunday was one of those hot, sticky days Chicagoans were thinking about early last winter while shoveling out their parking spaces and saving them with old, beat-up lawn furniture. Summertime means baseball in Chicago, and no matter what the status of...

When the Cubs left town after an 8-1 victory over Cincinnati on Monday afternoon, it was time to sit back, take a deep breath and repeat the following mantra: It's only April. It's only April. It's only April. After an intense weekend of baseball at...

STARTING PITCHING The Dodgers were the only National League team with more effective starters than the Cubs in the regular season. The guys at the front of the Cubs' rotation, Kerry Wood and Mark Prior, ended the season strongly. With Wood, scheduled to...

Greg Maddux ambled into the Cubs' dugout late Friday afternoon, looked up at the Jumbotron and watched a highlight of a wild Padres celebration at the former Jack Murphy Stadium. "Nineteen-eighty-four?" Maddux asked. Indeed it was 1984, the year the...

Tribune baseball expert Phil Rogers has picked an All-City team the last five years to kick off the Cubs-Sox interleague series. It's fair to say that Phil's selections haven't always hit it off with the public — seems there's disagreement about who ought...

Mark Grace went hitless in four at-bats Sunday for Arizona, yet he was partly responsible for shortening Cubs starter Matt Clement's workday. Clement was removed with one out in the sixth inning because his pitch count was 121. In Clement's 28-pitch...

Carlos Zambrano's days of anonymity may soon be a thing of the past. While the 22-year-old right-hander has been able to succeed in the shadows of his All-Star teammates, Kerry Wood and Mark Prior, he's stepping to the forefront now that the Cubs are...

After a team goes from bad to worse, what comes next? The answer is Monday night's 11-1 loss to the Marlins, which qualifies as one of the Cubs' sorriest showings in a season full of pitiful efforts. At least there were few who cared enough to witness...

After dispatching with Tampa Bay in an 8-1 rout Thursday at Wrigley Field, the Cubs turned their attention to the matchup everyone has been anticipating since last winter. The New York Yankees come to Wrigley on Friday for the first time since the 1938...

Jose Valentin dropped his bat and threw his arms in the air. He knew it. "I didn't try to mock anybody," Valentin said of the celebration that followed his game-winning home run. "But when you've been swinging the bat like I have, you better enjoy it."...