WASHINGTON — “Have you ever seen ‘The Deer Hunter?’” Cubs manager Joe Maddon wondered during a pre-doubleheader riff on Saturday at Nationals Park. “Robert De Niro, up in the mountains, right after the wedding, they’re going deer hunting and he gets upset and he let the other boys know that, ‘This is this.’ One of my favorite lines of all-time.”



This is a 10-point snapshot of a Cubs team that will just have to deal with it after heavy storms washed away Sunday’s game in Washington, a decision announced 3 hours and 1 minute after the scheduled first pitch, or essentially when it stopped raining. This on top of Friday’s rainout, weather delays that lasted 3 hours and 39 minutes on Saturday and 19 games in the previous 19 days. The Cubs haven’t had a true day off since Aug. 20 and won’t get another one until Sept. 20. Oh, and Max Scherzer is now looming for Thursday’s rescheduled game at...