Schwarber expected to be Cubs DH in Game 1

CLEVELAND — Kyle Schwarber will be with the Cubs for the World Series and could be the designated hitter Tuesday for Game 1.

Schwarber, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in the third game of the year, played his second Arizona Fall League game Monday in Mesa, Ariz., and went 1-for-3 with a double, scoring a run. MLB Network’s Jon Paul Morosi reported Schwarber was expected to be added to the Cubs’ playoff roster. However, the team will not announce the roster until 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday.

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“To have another young guy here who has a track record of hitting home runs, who is a threat, who, when you see his name in the lineup, there’s some scariness to that — we can’t wait to have him back,” Chicago’s Addison Russell said. “I’m a big Kyle Schwarber fan. I love what he does; I can’t wait until he gets here.”

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Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein was in the visitor’s clubhouse at Progressive Field on Monday to watch Schwarber’s first two at-bats as well as a pregame workout via the team’s video feed from Mesa.

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“He ran the bases before the game really well, slid, dove back in, went first to third, second to home,” Epstein said Monday during the Cubs’ …

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