DENVER — The Chicago Cubs roll into the final month of the regular season firmly in playoff position.

And yet their three-city West Coast trip created complexity for the Cubs’ standing. Those long West Coast series are notoriously challenging trips, but two walk-off losses and getting swept in San Francisco on the heels of sweeping the Angels in Anaheim leave the Cubs feeling they left a couple of winnable games on the field. The Cubs couldn’t complete a sweep of the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, dropping the finale 6-5 on Mickey Moniak’s RBI triple in the bottom of the ninth against Daniel Palencia.

The Cubs (78-59) struggled to get much going against Rockies starter Tanner Gordon, who struck them out a career-high nine times. Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd experienced some unlucky wea

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