Dodgers three-peat? Cubs showcasing they can mount championship challenge: ‘That’s how this team is wired’

The Death Star might seem fully operational after a trade-deadline blockbuster to add Tarik Skubal to the most talent-rich team in baseball. Is a Dodgers three-peat truly inevitable? The Cubs, owners of one of the best records in baseball but still trailing in their own division, aren’t expected to enter October as the sort of World Series favorites the Dodgers are. But in back-to-back nights at an electrified Wrigley Field, they showed they have the ability to mount a challenge to baseball’s…