Friday notes… • ROAD WARRIORS, PART 1: The Cubs won the first game in six of their first 10 series on the road this season, alternating two wins and two losses five times, ending with wins at Cincinnati on May 23 and at Washington on June 3. Since then, they have lost the opener of eight consecutive road series, at Detroit, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Houston, Minnesota, New York vs. the Yankees, on the South Side vs. the White Sox and at Milwaukee. They managed to win only two of those series, vs. the Yankees and White Sox. They split four games at St. Louis. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53) • ROAD WARRIORS, PART 2: The Cubs have hit 91 home runs on the road. That is their second most in the first 56 road games of any season, behind 96 in 2019. Their third most is just 80, in 2017. In the last f
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