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Thursday notes: • THE DOG DAYS OF AUGUST: OPS of Cubs’ regulars in August: .901: Matt Shaw. .704: Nico Hoerner. .691: Ian Happ. .670: Dansby Swanson. .630: Seiya Suzuki. .604: Kyle Tucker. .602: Michael Busch. .512: Carson Kelly. .484: Pete Crow-Armstrong. The team OPS of .629 is 29th, 10 points behind Orioles’ .639. Guardians are last by far at .586. Average of all 30 teams is .731. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53) • DROPPING TWO: This is just the sixth of the Cubs’ 43 series in which they lost the first two games. There was no third game in one previous series. They won the third game of the four others: at St. Louis, Minnesota and Milwaukee, and at home vs. the Reds. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53) • DON’T GET SWEPT: The last time the Cubs were swept in a series of at

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