Game number 122 is usually right around where I talk about the marathon turning into a sprint. It’s not like there is a clear delineation. In fairness, it was probably coming out of the day off last week and starting that series in Toronto. With 14 games in 13 days coming out of that, that was probably the right place to recognize that we’ve left the long run for the short run. Fortunately, the Cubs came out of that long part of the season with about a five-game lead in the NL Wild Card race.

The Brewers are going to win the NL Central, barring an even more dramatic reversal of fortune. Even if the Cubs could somehow sweep five from the Brewers, they’d still have an uphill battle to win the Central. Spoiler alert, the Cubs are not going to sweep five from the Brewers. The Brewers are play

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