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For the first time in Mike Trout’s career, Los Angeles begins May in first place in the AL West.

Stroman shut out the first-place Brewers for seven innings and retired the final 14 batters he faced as the Cubs won 2-0 to avoid a weekend sweep.

MILWAUKEE — Patrick Wisdom’s fifth-inning solo home run off Corbin Burnes gave Marcus Stroman all the support he needed Sunday on his 31st birthday, and the Chicago Cubs starter dominated over seven scoreless innings in a 2-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers before 35,137 at American Family Field.

The quality of at-bats dropped, strikeouts mounted and the team’s fielding went from flawless to fumbling as a 6-4 start turned into 8-13.

Even when our baseball teams are losing, these head-to-head meetings hit the spot.

The Cubs have now lost nine of their last 11 games.

“I’m going to play until somebody takes the jersey off my back,” the journeyman first baseman said.

CHICAGO — No one knew Chicago like Mike Royko, and no one spread the gospel of the Cubs like the late Chicago Tribune columnist.

They also bring rainouts, which we saw a lot of this month. We also saw too many injuries. But we never see too many questions.

MILWAUKEE — After years of failing to develop starting pitching, the Chicago Cubs finished 2021 with three potential starters in Justin Steele, Keegan Thompson and Adbert Alzolay.

Six home runs left the yard, none of them hit by the visitors.