STARTING PITCHING: In their last 35 games dating to July 12, the Cubs’ starting rotation has posted a 2.83 ERA (59 earned runs in 187.2 innings), lowest mark in the major leagues over that span. uring that stretch the rotation has allowed three runs or fewer in 24 of those games.

Pete Crow-Armstrong hit a tiebreaking homer in the ninth inning and Kyle Tucker went deep for the first time in more than a month as the Chicago Cubs beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-2 to open a nine-gam