"There's a welcome-to-Wrigley Field moment." That was the call by Chicago Cubs play-by-play man Jon Sciambi on April 7 when Kyle Tucker flew out against the Texas Rangers after hitting a ball 104.6 mph with a launch angle of 29 degrees and an expected batting average of .

When Crow-Armstrong slid into the left-field gap to catch the last out of the first inning, the crowd erupted. As he popped up and jogged toward the dugout, Cubs fans broke into a “P-C-A” chant.

CHICAGO – It's 10 steps from the sidewalk outside of Wrigley Field's right-field-to-center-field stretch to the sidewalk on the east side of Sheffield Avenue. Among other reasons, it's that tantalizing proximity -- that physical immediacy -- that makes the 3600 block of Sheffield the Best Block in Baseball.

While bagging their first playoff win since 2017, the Cubs also showed the blueprint for how they can keep advancing.

Eighteen former South Bend Cubs players are now on Chicago’s 40-man roster, including stars like Pete Crow-Armstrong and Matt Shaw, whose road to Wrigley started in South Bend, where construction is underway to give it even more of a big-league feel.

Growing up, it was Quinn Priester's grandparents who took the Northern Illinois kid to Wrigley Field. Grandpa Paul and Grandma Judy would take him and his sister, Maddie, about once a year, where the

The Cubs finally looked like the team they were in the season's first half in their Game 3 wild-card victory over San Diego.

Cease, whom the Cubs drafted in 2014 and traded in 2017, shut down his former organization for 3 2/3 innings, helping his current team keep its season alive.