Cubs get first crack at Dodgers' Tarik Skubal, but will there be another one in October?

On one side of the Great Dodgers-Cubs Gap now stands Tarik Skubal, the best left-handed pitcher on the planet, maybe the finest hurler of ’em all. Skubal, the grand prize of baseball’s trade deadline, was on the mound Tuesday at Wrigley Field for the two-time-defending world champions, a colossus of an organization that takes whatever it wants, destroys everything in its path, spends insatiably on its roster and seemingly exists for the sole purpose of winning the final game of each and every…