Chicago Cubs Single-Game Tickets Go On Sale Friday

Chicago Cubs single-game tickets go on sale Friday morning.

Starting at 10 a.m., tickets to see the team play at Wrigley Field will be available online, over the phone, or on the MLB's new mobile app. 

To purchase tickets, visit www.cubs.com, download the MLB.com Ballpark app or call 800-THE-CUBS (800-843-2827).

In previous years, Cubs fans have been able to buy tickets through the team, receive them via email, and print them off at home. But with the release of the new MLB.com Ballpark app, those days are over. The Cubs have now joined a growing list of teams that will no longer be offering the option for fans to print off tickets at home for the upcoming season.

All tickets from now on will either be hard-copies, mailed by the team, or stored on MLB’s Ballpark mobile app.

It's a change that comes as the Cubs are looking to combat the sale and proliferation of counterfeit tickets, as print-at-home tickets were arguably the easiest to exploit.

The MLB Ballpark app is available for free download from both the Apple and Google Play app stores, and hard tickets can still be ordered through the mail if fans purchase tickets through the Cubs.

Tickets to see the Chicago Cubs play as defending champions is something that hasn't been able to be seen since 1908. That was the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series before Kris Bryant and company ended the drought last November, beating the Cleveland Indians in a Game 7 classic .

Now 1908 is the last time the franchise repeated as champions — and the goal beginning when the Cubs' pitchers and catchers reported to spring training.

"I think we have the right group here that guys will just be able to realize what we did and how special it was, but just to realize how much better it would be to sustain that success and do it again the next year," Bryant said. "I think we're hungrier than ever and we would love to be that team that goes back to back and I think we all have the right mindset."

No major league team has won consecutive championships since the New York Yankees from 1998-2000. But the Cubs return a loaded lineup, led by sluggers Bryant and Rizzo, and solid pitching staff, with Lester fronting one of the majors' best rotations. Kyle Schwarber and his compact lefty swing could put together a big year if he can stay healthy, and the refurbished bullpen includes Wade Davis and Koji Uehara after a pair of offseason moves.

Perhaps most important, no more questions about famous curses, and the Cubs begin this year with the experience of a championship run.

"I think you gain sort of an inner confidence," president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said, "a default belief that you and your teammates know how to win and through hard times you just have a faith in getting back to what got you there, knowing that you're good enough not only to compete, but to win, and to win the whole thing. That kind of confidence is hard to create."

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