In episode No. 6 of The Daily Score, Mark Grote explains why he's baffled by the Cubs' 8-1 stretch ahead of the Aug. 1 MLB trade deadline (00:09), why he's done being skeptical about the team (00:58), a Cubs edition of "Grote Show and Tell" (02:01), and the game he considers to be the most important of the 8-2 campaign -- and it's probably not the that first comes to mind (06:00).

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