Pete Crow-Armstrong hit his first two home runs of the season, including a go-ahead solo shot in the seventh inning, Michael Busch homered against his former team again and the Chicago.

The Cubs do not have a way to immediately and seamlessly replace Steele, who underwent Tommy John surgery in 2017.

Ben Brown used a two-pitch mix to throw six scoreless innings, and the Chicago Cubs got 14 runs on 15 hits in the final three innings of a 16-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on .

The initial injury designation — left elbow tendinitis — was the same one that Steele experienced late last season.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto scattered two hits over six innings, Tommy Edman snapped a scoreless tie with a 3-run homer in the sixth and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cubs 3-0 on Friday nigh.

Some numbers take a while to stabilize, and others can be more than just noise, indicators of what a team can be in a long season.

The Cubs acquired left-handed reliever Tom Cosgrove from the San Diego Padres on Thursday for cash considerations and optioned him to Triple-A Iowa.

Temperatures have reached 40 degrees, so it must be baseball season in Chicago.