CHICAGO -- One of the traits of this Cubs team early in the season, when the offense was rolling and the ballclub enjoyed a stay atop the division for most of the first four months, was a resiliency within each game. Comeback wins were a part of the script early on, but that dynamic has been absent for weeks.

On Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field, the Cubs continued to search for a spark in the batter’s box, but a late rally delivered a 3-1 win over the Pirates and snapped a peculiar franchise-record drought. The North Siders had not pulled off a comeback win since July 2, marking the longest such streak (35 games) since the team’s founding in 1876, per team historian Ed Hartig.

The decisive push arrived in the eighth, when Kyle Tucker -- batting .140 in a dozen games this month, en

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