2015 Chicago Cubs season

2015 Chicago Cubs
National League Wild Card Winners
League	National League
Division	Central
Ballpark	Wrigley Field
City	Chicago, Illinois
Record	97–65 (.599)
Divisional place	3rd
Owners	Tom Ricketts
General managers	Jed Hoyer
Managers	Joe Maddon
Television	WGN-TV CSN Chicago CSN Chicago Plus WLS-TV WPWR-TV (Len Kasper, Jim Deshaies)
Radio	WBBM (AM) Chicago Cubs Radio Network (Pat Hughes, Ron Coomer, Mark Grote, Len Kasper)
Stats	ESPN.com BB-reference
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The 2015 Chicago Cubs season was the 144th season for the franchise, the 140th in the National League and the 100th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs were managed by Joe Maddon in his first year as Cubs manager and played their home games at Wrigley Field as members of the National League Central.

They began the season on April 5, 2015, in a first-ever night-game home-opener against the St. Louis Cardinals at partially renovated Wrigley Field, and finished the regular season on October 4, 2015, on the road against the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Cubs finished the season with the third-best record in baseball (97–65) which was also the third-best in their division, finishing one game behind the Pittsburgh Pirates (98–64) and three games behind the division winner, the rival St. Louis Cardinals (100–62). As a result, they qualified for the second wild card spot for the postseason, their first postseason appearance since 2008, and defeated the Pirates in the NLWC Game to advance to the NLDS against the Cardinals. The Cubs defeated St. Louis three games to one to advance to the NLCS against the New York Mets, the Cubs' first appearance in the NLCS since 2003. However, they were swept in four games.

In 2015, Forbes valued the Cubs at $1.8 billion, ranking them 17th out of all sports franchises in the world, and the fifth highest in all MLB.^[1] The Cubs attendance for the regular season was 2,959,812, up over 300,000 from the previous year.^[2]