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Unfortunately, the Cubs won’t be playing baseball today, as it’s a scheduled off day. Then the Cubs have the Pirates scheduled for night games at Wrigley Field Wednesday and Thursday. Baseball at night in Chicago in early April isn’t pleasant even under average weather conditions for this time of year, as the average low temperature is 39 degrees, but the Cubs are now going to try to play baseball through this awful forecast:Those conditions are not conducive to baseball, not at all. It’s not just the rain, it’s the cold and wind. The Wednesday forecast sounds like it’s going to be a lot like it was at Wrigley Field April 14, 2018, when the Cubs and Braves played a game in what Joe Maddon called the most miserable conditions he’d ever seen:And that’s from the guy who managed Game 5 of the 2008 World Series, which was played in a torrential downpour until it was tied up so it could be suspended. (The suspended-game rules have since been changed, largely because of that game.) Here’s the Retrosheet summary of what happened that day:And in case you’ve forgotten how bizarre that Cubs/Braves game was last year, here are some highlights of the Cubs’ wet, cold, wacky eighth-inning comeback [VIDEO].Your browser does not support HTML5 video.Fun, sure (though not for the Braves). The point is, though: Why would you want to try to play a baseball game under conditions similar to that? It’s not like the forecast for Wednesday and Thursday wasn’t known several days ago Austin Meadows Jersey , because it was, and I wrote four days ago that they should have rescheduled:The Cubs, apparently, were actually considering doing something along those lines yesterday:I am certainly not insensitive to fans who would either have to change plans or who couldn’t go to a game for which they had previously purchased tickets. In such cases, the Cubs could offer ticket credit for a future game or some other perk, they can certainly afford to. There’s another factor involved as well, and that’s the Cubs’ ability to put together a gameday staff of security employees, concession workers, etc. on short notice. That’s especially difficult this time of year, as most of those workers also have other jobs and many of them are teachers. Teaching jobs allow those folks to have jobs at Wrigley when schools are out, but on short notice in April? Not as easy to do.So I get that. But as I noted above, the forecast for this Wednesday and Thursday was pretty obvious four days ago. The Cubs thought about it Monday, but needed a “slam dunk”? It was pretty much a slam dunk over the weekend. Had they started the process of rescheduling last Thursday, when I first wrote about this, they probably could have gotten it done and at least got the game in tonight. Then, if weather caused them issues Wednesday, calling off Thursday’s game and rescheduling it when the opponent (Pirates) comes to Wrigley twice more is relatively simple.Now, the Cubs face the possibility of two postponements, or in playing games in poor weather for baseball, with injury risk magnified. In addition Colin Moran Jersey , many fans who hold tickets to such games won’t come anyway in bad weather. You can see that in the video highlights above; the announced attendance for April 14, 2018 at Wrigley was 36,788. In my recap linked above, I estimated maybe 15,000 showed up and by the time the Cubs had their eighth-inning comeback, perhaps 1,000 remained in the house.Weather in Chicago in April is notoriously fickle; it can be summerlike one day (as it was on Monday), then winterlike conditions can prevail just a day or two later. The Cubs should have been more proactive and rescheduled. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — If this was it for Zack Wheeler, he finished strong and — probably most importantly — healthy.Wheeler pitched seven solid innings for his career-best 12th win in what may have been his final start of the season, Michael Conforto had a career-high six RBIs and the New York Mets beat the fading Philadelphia Phillies 9-4 on Monday night.Wheeler (12-7) allowed four runs and three hits to become the first Mets pitcher since Steve Trachsel in 2001 to record nine wins after the All-Star Game. Since the break, the right-hander is 9-1 with a 1.68 ERA in 11 starts.“Probably the best pitcher in baseball the last 1½ months,” Mets manager Mickey Callaway said.New York was eliminated from playoff contention Monday night when St. Louis beat Atlanta. Callaway wants to be cautious with Wheeler and said he would discuss with Mets management whether he makes another start.The right-hander is three innings shy of his career best, the 185 1/3 he threw in 2014 before injuries halted his promising career. Wheeler didn’t pitch at all in the majors in 2015 or 2016 following Tommy John surgery, and was limited to 86 1/3 innings last season due to a stress reaction in his pitching arm.“We want to make sure we’re taking care of the player,” Callaway said.Wheeler, who opened the season in the minors, is relieved to be pitching and feeling so well.“It’s been smooth sailing for the most part this year,” he said.Asked if he wanted to continue to pitch, Wheeler said, “Still feeling good. It’s not my call. I’ll leave it up to those guys.”Conforto David Freese Jersey , after a rocky start, also is feeling good. The Mets outfielder already has 22 RBIs this month, giving him 75 for the season.“If I put the work in and stayed positive, I knew at some point it would come around,” he said. “It feels like I’m not searching so much. It took five months I guess, but I finally got it.”Conforto had a two-run single in the fifth, an RBI double in the seventh and a three-run homer in the ninth for the Mets, who have won seven of 11 and are 26-17 over their last 43 games. Conforto has 45 RBIs since the All-Star break, second-most in the NL over that span behind Milwaukee’s Christian Yelich.“This is the Michael Conforto everyone wants to see,” Callaway said. “This is one of the better players in the league when he’s going like this.”The Phillies, as a team, have been heading in the opposite direction.J.P. Crawford had a three-run triple for the Phillies, whose slim playoff chances took another hit. Philadelphia is 6½ games back of first-place Atlanta in the NL East and five games out of the wild card. The Phillies have lost eight of 11.Conforto’s two-out double in the seventh off Tommy Hunter (4-3) snapped a 4-all tie and helped the Mets continue their mastery of Philadelphia.Wheeler didn’t allow a hit until Wilson Ramos‘ leadoff single in the fifth that caromed off the glove of diving second baseman Jeff McNeil and into short right field. Wheeler then gave up a single to Nick Williams and hit Odubel Herrera with a pitch to load the bases. Crawford cleared them with a triple to right, and Cesar Hernandez’s sacrifice fly scored Crawford to tie it at 4.The Mets took a 4-0 lead against Jake Arrieta. Austin Jackson’s RBI double in the second got New York on the board, and the Mets scored three more runs in the fifth on Amed Rosario’s sacrifice fly and Conforto’s single to center.Arrieta was tagged for four runs and nine hits in five innings.PHILLIES’ FOILNew York has won 11 of 17 against the Phillies this season and is 44-20 in Philadelphia since 2012.“They’ve just flat-out beat us,” Phillies manager Gabe Kapler said. “They have beat us in good matchups. They have beat us in bad matchups. They have just handled us well.”WALK THIS WAYPhiladelphia’s Carlos Santana walked in the second inning to reach 100 for the season for the third time in his career. He has 101 walks after a sixth-inning free pass.TRAINER’S ROOMPhillies: 3B Maikel Franco (neck) missed his fifth straight game. Kapler said he expects Franco to return in two or three days. … Williams (shoulder) returned to the lineup after sitting out the last three games. . INF Asdrubal Cabrera left in the fifth inning with a left calf strain. He will be re-evaluated on Tuesday.UP NEXTMets LHP Steven Matz (5-11, 4.18 ERA) opposes RHP Aaron Nola (16-5, 2.42) in the middle game of the series.