Cubs vs. Blue Jays postponed due to rain, capping off a mixed bag homestand

No big surprise here given the Father's Day forecast in Chicagoland, but Sunday's series finale between the Chicago Cubs and Toronto Blue Jays has been postponed, leaving Cubs fans with Saturday's disastrous meltdown loss as the bitter taste in their mouths to an abruptly ended homestand.

The two teams will make up the game on Thursday, Aug. 6 at 1:20, taking advantage of a mutually scheduled off-day. The Cubs will be coming off a three-game set at Wrigley against the Dodgers and will head to New York to take on the Yankees afterward the make-up game.

The Cubs wind up going 3-2 on the homestand, including a series win over the Colorado Rockies and a split with the Blue Jays. Going 4-1 (and picking up ground in the division) would've been a far more palatable outcome, but Craig Counsell and his team now look to this week's road trip, which opens with a series against the Mets in Queens before a high-stakes NL Central showdown in Milwaukee next weekend.

Pete Crow-Armstrong's heroics highlighted this week's Cubs homestand

There was no bigger story this week than Pete Crow-Armstrong. Despite a glaring snub in the latest All-Star Game voting totals, the Cubs' superstar outfielder did it all, hitting for the cycle against the Rockies as part of a monster five-game run, in which he put up a 385 wRC+, homering four times and driving in seven.

That just continued his recent surge that has him as the most valuable position player in the National League in terms of WAR. After a slow start, PCA has showcased a much-improved approach at the plate and the results have buoyed his numbers on the year. Crow-Armstrong is up to a .286/.363/.521 slash line and the idea of a 30-homer, 30-steal, 30 OAA season is very much a possibility.

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