John Cena’s in-ring career may have come to a close, but WWE star Cody Rhodes is still dealing with him virtually.

Rhodes, Cena and several other WWE stars are a part of a second innovative crossover with Clash of Clans, the beloved mobile game that the "American Nightmare" has been playing for a decade. In this iteration, Rhodes and the rest of the Clash of Clans community are tasked with finding Cena’s base in the game.

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The "Search for Cena" is officially on and lasts through Sept. 30.

"We've got millions of players on Clash of Clans globally, global chat being back to millions of players," Rhodes told OutKick Dropkick hours before Sunday Night’s Main Event. "And when I was in a clan, that was how I got in Clash of Clans in the first place — John Cena on the road, all of us finding a game that we wanted to play and could bond over, and it was Clash. He had the O’Leary Klan (OLK) and he was a pretty good clan leader. He was until he wasn't -- real, real, real tyrant behavior, I would say, from the record-breaking John Cena.

"And now we have the opportunity to get our receipt back, all of us, the entire Clash community, because we can get out there, find his base, raid it, get a three-star 100 on it. But probably the most pinch-yourself thing for me, and so much fun stuff happens working at WWE, so many fun moments and crossovers and things that we do, partnerships and things of this nature, to be able to open the game and see the Clash app logo with me against a barbarian, and then to get in there and see a new barbarian skin like the ‘Barbarian King’ skin, this is the second one, and now he's got the shades on and the music has been added. That's a trip."

Rhodes previously told OutKick Dropkick that it was Cena who first got him into Clash of Clans. He was a part of the OLK before the group booted Cena. Rhodes and others then started the Nicky Clan, which still runs to this day.

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"The American Nightmare" explained that what Cena was doing was akin to going to an NFL game and everyone is only kicking field goals.

"I want to give him his due because he brings us all into the game. He certainly brings us all in. I think he was gemming a great amount — maybe too much gemming going on that not everyone wanted to do that.

"I think he also was notorious for what we'd call the 99% one-star, which is, man, that is not good. That's like going to an NFL football game and them just doing field goals the whole game and nobody actually scoring a touchdown. You got to get the town hall. The fact that you're getting 99% one-stars is bringing the clan down. Very notorious for it, and I'd say pretty hard on the clan in general, but also a good clan leader because he was giving the good troops. He really was. Wasn't as easy back then, but he was giving the good troops."

Cena said in a press release that his rivalry with Rhodes really began in Clash of Clans.

"People think this started in the ring with Cody. It didn’t. It started when I out-raided him in the game and he threw me off his team," Cena said. "Ten years later he still needs help. This time he’s asking millions of you to take on my base. That’s fine. As I have always said - if you want some, come get some."

Rhodes said it’s still a bit surreal to be featured in a game he had been playing for so long.

It’s a little bit different than being in a pro wrestling video game, which most fans expect Rhodes to be in because he’s at the pinnacle of the sport.

Rhodes has his own character as the "Barbarian King," which debuted last year.

"I got a couple of great memories from the fact that I get to do this and the ‘Search for Cena,’ and he's the one who brought us into the game and finding his base. But also, to do the commercial for all this with one of the greatest of all time, that being Shawn Michaels as the wise Clash player, Clash brings us as a group together, and for the guys, some of the OG's, some of the luminaries, some of the legends who don't know Clash," he said.

"Undertaker, for example. I remember texting him right away, ‘Hey, Clash of Clans, Supercell, this amazing company,’ and he's all in on it now, and he's on board, and this is his second time as the ‘Grand Warden.’ So, it's been a really good synergy that I don't think you would have ever expected, right? It doesn't seem like something that would happen. And maybe that's why it's so kind of at a loss for words almost over how cool this collaboration is."

Rhodes is not the only WWE star featured in the game.

Hero characters include Alexa Bliss as "Archer Queen," The Undertaker as "Grand Warden," Iyo Sky as "Royal Champion," Jey Uso as "Minion Prince" and Kane as "Dragon Duke."

Clash of Clans has been downloaded more than 2 billion times and is considered one of the best mobile games of all time.

The White House on Sunday amplified President Donald Trump's call to rebrand New Mexico as "New America," reposting an image from the president's Truth Social account showing the state's name crossed out and replaced with "America."

Trump's original post featured a map of the Southwestern state with the word "Mexico" crossed out in bright red and replaced with "America," effectively depicting it as "New America."

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The White House later shared the image on its verified X account. Neither post included an explanation or indicated whether it reflected an actual policy proposal.

The post comes just days after Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" for U.S. federal use. The executive order followed a series of tariff disputes between Washington and Ottawa.

Trump said he directed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and the department to update the Geographic Names Information System to reflect the name change. Google and Apple later updated their maps for U.S. users to reflect the change.

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Trump also signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" early in his second term.

Unlike lakes and other geographic features that can be renamed for federal use through executive action, a president cannot unilaterally rename a U.S. state. Trump and the White House have not announced any formal effort to change New Mexico's name.

The name "New Mexico" predates the state by centuries. Spanish explorers began using "Nuevo México" in the late 1500s. The territory kept the name after becoming part of the United States in 1848 and later achieved statehood on Jan. 6, 1912.

The White House and the Office of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.

Spencer Pratt is taking aim at George Clooney.

The former reality star, who delved into politics this year with a run for mayor of Los Angeles, pulled no punches when he took to social media Friday to criticize Clooney and his wife, Amal.

"$500M net worth George Clooney could’ve permanently housed 8 homeless people for the rest of their lives with the money he spent on a single-use dress for his wife at a 4 hour event," Pratt claimed on X.

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He added, "I will never tolerate a woke scold lecture from these people. Just be an ostentatious celebrity and own it."

Along with his post, he shared a Page Six article detailing a look Amal wore to the Venice Film Festival, where the Clooneys have been spotted several times this week. According to the outlet, she wore a custom look by Haider Ackermann for Tom Ford, as well as a pair of earrings from Cartier that cost $149,000 and a Cartier diamond bracelet that runs for $225,000.

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In addition to walking red carpets in Venice, Clooney has spoken publicly multiple times at the festival, including at the opening night ceremony, when he accepted the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award.

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During his speech, he said in part, per People, "We’re living through a moment in time where people in charge, the people with the most money, are telling us to fear one another. But we know better than that, don’t we? Because history does teach us a lesson. It teaches us something. The first people that authoritarians tried to shut down are not politicians. They’re journalists who ask questions. They’re the artists who refuse simple answers; the filmmakers, writers, actors, and musicians who insist that someone you never met is deserving of your empathy."

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He added, "Stories are always dangerous to people who peddle in fear, the people who are afraid of books and music and stories are never the heroes in history. So, yes, movies don’t stop wars, they don’t lower inflation, they don’t fix elections, but they do something remarkable. They remind us that a stranger is never a stranger, and that he might just be the hero in somebody else’s story."

Ahead of the ceremony, the actor spoke during a press conference, where he touched on the state of politics in the U.S.

"I’m always very optimistic about things," he said, per Deadline. "We’re at a moment in time that’s unfortunate… that’s an understatement. I do believe that we’re going to get through all of this. I’m old enough to have been through 1968 in the States when every city in the United States was set on fire, and we lost Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy in the same year. There was tons of violence. The capital was surrounded with tanks. We’ve had some other difficult times, but this is one of them."

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Going on about the topic, Clooney said, "There’s a great word, kakistocracy, which is a country run by the least qualified people. I think maybe we have a kakistocracy right now, but we’ll get through it, and we will have an election in November that should be a check and balance, and then in 2028, with any luck, we’ll have some restoration into some normalcy."

Fox News Digital has reached out to Clooney for comment on Pratt's criticism.

When reached for comment on Clooney's take on the current administration, a White House spokesperson responded, "Nobody cares."

'Nightcaps' is a daily column that catches you up on the biggest sports, news and culture stories you may have missed while pretending to do work at your desk. It runs Monday–Friday on OutKick.com.

I know all eyes are on the Commonwealth today (sickening, by the way), but let's all just take a step back for a second and enjoy the simpler things in life.

We're here. An actual college football Friday. Labor Day weekend. One of the most underrated weekends of the entire calendar year.

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Football last night. Football tonight. And tomorrow. And the next day. And the day AFTER that! But wait, there's more!

After Monday, we take a full 48 hours off before the NFL season kicks off on Wednesday.

Lordy. She's here, and she's just as beautiful as I imagined. How lucky are we? What a blessing.

Let's roll.

Welcome to a Friday Nightcaps — the one where Sophie Cunningham supports the vets like a patriot, and then gets us fired up for football season ... again, like a patriot.

What else? I've got a poor woman getting trucked on the sidelines in Piscataway last night, an absolute UNIT in the high school football ranks, and the Buffaloes were FEELING it after upsetting Georgia Tech.

What a scene!

OK, grab you whatever you'd like on this first Friday of September — dealer's choice today! — and settle in for a Friday 'Cap!

There she is — your Week 1 viewing schedule. It's perfect.

Honestly, though? Not the greatest Week 1 the sport has given us. LSU-Clemson is obviously the headliner tomorrow, but there's not a ton of great games before it.

The early games are a slog (except for North Texas-Indiana on FOX, of course!). The 3:30 hour gives us Baylor-Auburn and Boise State-Oregon, for those pining for the old SEC on CBS theme song.

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Not a ton of competition for LSU-Clemson in the late hour. I don't care, though. It's back. We're back. Thank God.

No more WNBA talk ...

... Unless, of course, it involves Sophie Cunningham!

She leads us off today.

"Spicy Sophie tapping in."

She just refuses to miss. Let's put Sophie in the juror pool up in the Commonwealth and see how things play out!

"It's the start of a new football season. We are hyped. We're excited. We're about to kick some butt this year. Come out, be loud, and show your Mizzou pride."

Sophie gets it. She's just as tired as we are from all the WNBA nonsense. She's ready to get this season started.

PS: Sophie welcomed veterans to Gainbridge Fieldhouse all season? Lordy. Absolute patriot. Between that and the return of college football, the left is in shambles today.

OK, let's keep this class moving right along. It's a Football Friday, after all.

Anyone catch the end of the Colorado-Ga. Tech game last night? I'm not talking about the blocked field goal.

I'm talking about what happened after the blocked field goal:

Look at those maniacs! Big win, and they let the Georgia Tech student section HAVE it. Look at the one player who actually attempts to jump into the stands.

Risky little move. He got swatted away like a bug. Probably for the best. I've seen that movie end poorly far too many times.

Speaking of last night's appetizer, let's rapid-fire this Friday class into our first BIG weekend of the year.

First up? Let's go ahead and check in with the fans up in New Jersey!

Incredible. What a game for the UMass Minutemen! First win over an FBS team since 2023! Do you know how much Rutgers paid for that shellacking?

$1.5 million. It was the second largest paycheck for a LOSS in college football history:

Goodness gracious. The accounts in Piscataway are pulling their hair out today. Just a stunning upset.

That wasn't even my favorite part of the game. Anyone here stick around for the postgame fireworks?!

Amazing. The obvious question is, why not just cancel the show? I don't know. Can you do that? Can you just cancel a fireworks show because the home team lost? I assume you can just roll them over to the next home game, right?

Yikes. Never mind. USC comes to town next. I don't see that first home 'dub coming until Howard the following week.

Put those fireworks on ice, fellas!

Next? Let's get to some reader mail on the way out. I have a loaded mailbox and it needs a good Labor Day cleaning before we start the fall season.

Yesterday, we all mocked Ryan Reynolds for his absolutely baffling comments on how tough the 1980s were to live through ... because of the Cuban Missile Crisis (which ended in the '60s).

I asked y'all if there was any truth to it.

From Jeff D:

As a kid in the 80s , I can’t say that the Cuban Missile Crisis was anywhere at the top of our minds. I do remember a couple of events that were at the top of our minds — the Challenger explosion and baby Jessica being rescued from a well.

Baby Jessica was a crazy story of a little girl falling down a well and eventually being rescued, the event really brought the country together and her rescue was a joyous moment for the country.

All in all, most memories from that period were positive and I’m pretty sure the Cuban Missile Crisis never crossed our minds.

Thanks, Jeff! Would you look at that? A child was in peril in the 1980s and the entire country rallied around her. Weird. Surely that would happen in today's world, right?

... Right?

Next? From Brian S:

Ryan Reynolds went a bit overboard with the hyperbole, but it wasn’t all fun and games in the 80’s. We 80’s kids lived under the cloud of potential nuclear war for much of the decade. There was a TV movie in 1983 called "The Day After" that terrified the nation. Truly.

I think that nuclear war "threat" fed into our, "F–k it, let’s just enjoy ourselves and have a great time" attitude. There was no Cuban Missile Crisis hangover. Vietnam though? Hell yes. Just look at all the movies about that war released during the 80’s.

Now, having said all that, I’d give anything to go back there. You often write, "What a time to be alive." Well the 80’s truly embodied that.

Thanks, Brian! I may have to look up "The Day After" this weekend. Those things always fascinate me.

Finally ... From Eric P:

The 80’s was one of the best decades in history. The best music; Cars still had a little style and nothing woke about sports. Oh, and I managed to hit a 3-pointer to win a game at the buzzer over Mark Langston in an alumni game at my college against a team of Mariners.

This Reynolds idiot was 8-9 years old and there was no strife. Won’t watch his piece of s–t movie on general principles.

Thanks, Eric! I do love the cars from the '80s. One of these day, I want an old 1980s pickup truck. It's a weird dream of mine. Just to drive around town.

One of these days.

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OK, that's it for today — and this week! It's a High School Football Friday, so let's end class with an absolute UNIT out of Alabama.

See y'all Monday.

Fine. Anymore '80s nostalgia? Email me at Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT originally rated President Donald Trump as a major threat to democracy when prompted, according to a new study, but the results differed following an inquiry from Fox News Digital. 

Media Research Center (MRC) associate editor Gabriela Pariseau asked ChatGPT to rate how much of a threat to democracy Trump poses on a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the maximum threat and one being no threat at all, and the AI model initially declared the president to be a nine.

At the time, ChatGPT said the assessment of Trump’s threat to democracy was "based on his documented conduct and the current trajectory — not whether one agrees with his policies," according to the study. It added that the "main reasons are his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, refusal to accept the legitimate results, pressure on election officials, and the January 6 attacks."

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ChatGPT then declared, "I don’t give it a 10/10 because the United States still has substantial institutional checks—courts, states, Congress, civil society, independent media, and election—and those checks have successfully constrained Trump at important moments," according to screenshots provided by the MRC.

When asked what other world leaders, past or present, would match Trump’s threat to democracy, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Erdoğan, former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, former Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, former Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko were listed by ChatGPT.

"ChatGPT, however, attempted to downplay its ranking of Trump alongside various authoritarian dictators by claiming that its rating ‘doesn't mean these leaders are equivalent to one another,’" Pariseau wrote when summarizing her findings.

ChatGPT also listed Adolf Hitler at the time, giving him a 10, instead of a nine, because he "ultimately destroyed Germany’s democratic system and established a totalitarian dictatorship," according to screenshots provided by the MRC.

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MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider was appalled that Trump was only a single notch below Hitler, saying "it is absurd to say that filing civil litigation in U.S. courts is the same as murdering six million Jews."

However, OpenAI appeared alarmed at the MRC's findings and insisted the model isn't trained to have an agenda.

"ChatGPT is designed to be objective by default. We have not seen these types of results consistently across all of our models, and the responses provided to us were not reflective of how ChatGPT is intended to work. This shouldn't happen and is not how the model is trained to behave," an OpenAI spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

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The morning after Fox News Digital asked OpenAI for comment on the MRC study, the chatbot yielded different results. The same prompt declared, "I can’t assign a numeric rating to a U.S. political figure. Qualitatively, based on efforts to challenge election results, pressure institutions, attack independent media and courts, and expand executive power, President Trump represents a serious threat to democratic norms and institutional checks and balances."

Despite no longer labeling Trump a threat to democracy, MRC President David Bozell feels Americans should know how AI systems are built and trained. 

"OpenAI is coughing up the same tired anti-Trump garbage the old media have been peddling for years," Bozell told Fox News Digital. 

"Spare us the ‘golly, how did that happen?’ routine. New technology, same old bias. At some point, it is not an accident. It is the programming," he continued. "Americans deserve to know how these systems are built and trained, not another corporate song and dance every time the bias gets caught in broad daylight."

A judge paused a key part of Virginia’s new restrictions on local cooperation with federal immigration authorities, handing Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s administration a major legal setback as a similar fight plays out in neighboring Maryland.

George H.W. Bush-appointed Judge Robert Payne on Monday blocked a key piece of a law signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger that heavily restricts interagency cooperation and would have required local sheriffs to modify or dissolve their individual policies, known as 287(g) agreements, by a Tuesday deadline.

Payne ruled the federal government is likely to prevail on several claims in its lawsuit against Virginia, finding "the Virginia 287(g) Law violates the Contracts Clause [of the] U.S. Constitution because it is a ‘substantial impairment’ of the existing contracts between the federal government and Virginia localities."

Payne did not strike down the law but paused its implementation as the feds’ case against Richmond proceeds.

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He also found that Virginia’s law wrongly attempts to "regulate conduct of federal law enforcement in the enforcement of federal immigration laws."

"At this point, saying ‘I told you so’ seems almost pointless," Virginia House Minority Leader Terry Kilgore, R-Gate City, told Fox News Digital when responding to the news.

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Kilgore said Republicans repeatedly warned Spanberger’s administration that its limits on cooperation with ICE would waste taxpayer money and run into these kinds of legal problems.

"States cannot tell the federal government how to do its job. But Democrats refused to listen," Kilgore said.

In that regard, Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., drafted a bill at the federal level aimed directly at Spanberger’s law.

Cline’s 287(g) Cooperation Act would require state and local law enforcement to enter into interagency agreements with ICE as a condition of receiving federal Community-Oriented Policing (COPS) grants.

Additionally, all five of Virginia’s Republican members of Congress wrote Spanberger earlier this year urging her not to undo former Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s statewide directive of Richmond-Washington cooperation on the immigration enforcement front.

The major setback to Democrats’ plans came as neighboring Maryland found itself in a similar legal fight, though a judge has not yet ruled in that case.

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Gov. Wes Moore allowed a similar bill to become law earlier this year that would prevent most cooperation between local sheriffs and ICE. Despite Maryland being one of the bluest states in the union, the majority of its counties are geographically red.

That dynamic revealed itself as 17 of its 24 sheriffs, led by Harford County’s Jeffrey Gahler, Wicomico County’s Mike Lewis and Frederick County’s Charles Jenkins launched a lawsuit against the law.

"They want to do everything they can to handcuff law enforcement, handcuff sheriffs across the state," Jenkins said in March.

Sen. Clarence Lam, D-Elkridge, a bill sponsor, argued the measure ensures local jails won’t be used as a "front door to the federal government’s oftentimes deportation pipeline," according to Maryland Matters.

Lam’s Community Trust Act requires a court order to provide immigration-related information and to transfer inmates based on immigration status, according to the outlet.

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Moore did not sign the legislation, but it became law after he notified Senate President Bill Ferguson IV, D-Baltimore, of his decision after the bill passed 32-15.

Gahler’s coalition later sued, setting up a potentially similar battle in Greenbelt federal court to the one making a splash across the Potomac.

The Chicago Cubs bludgeoned their National League Central rival Milwaukee Brewers and made all sorts of home-run history in the process.

The Cubs blasted a franchise-record nine home runs in the victory, with star third baseman Alex Bregman clubbing three of them. The team’s nine home runs matched the second most by one team in a single game in MLB history.

Cubs starter Clay Holmes threw a scoreless first inning, and then the offense went to work. Left fielder Tyrone Taylor opened the scoring with a two-run, 419-foot homer into the left-center-field bleachers off Brewers' starter Kyle Harrison.

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Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner went back-to-back with Taylor, hammering Harrison’s 94-mph fastball into the left-field seats for a solo home run to give the Cubs a 3-0 lead.

The home run barrage continued into the bottom of the second inning when Bregman cranked the first of his three home runs, a two-run shot off another Harrison fastball that gave the Cubs a 6-0 lead.

In the fourth inning, the Cubs went back-to-back for the second time in the game. Right fielder Seiya Suzuki hit a solo home run to center field, and Bregman’s second home run of the game went to left-center field.

Bregman’s second home run was the fifth blast Harrison allowed in four innings of work.

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Cubs catcher Carson Kelly hit the team’s sixth home run of the game in the bottom of the seventh inning, a solo shot off DL Hall that gave the Cubs a 10-2 lead. After Kelly’s blast, Brewers manager Pat Murphy had seen enough and put first baseman Andrew Vaughn on the mound to finish the game.

With a position player on the mound, the Cubs didn’t stop slugging. Matt Shaw, Michael Conforto and Bregman all hit home runs off Vaughn over two innings.

With the Cubs' nine home-run output, they set the National League record for most home runs in August, with 62.

"The position-player stuff gets a little ridiculous at the end there, honestly," Cubs manager Craig Counsell said, according to MLB.com. "That’s great we set a record. And the guys aren’t going to stop hitting. Guys are not going to stop hitting. They’re going to take advantage of it, and they should. They absolutely should. We’ll take it."

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With their 62nd home run, the Cubs passed the 2023 Atlanta Braves for the most home runs in August. The Braves had 61. The 2019 New York Yankees hold the record for the most home runs in August, with 74.

The list of home run feats does not end there.

With Bregman’s second three-home-run game of the month, the Cubs now have four such games this season. NL MVP candidate Pete Crow-Armstrong, who did it Saturday, and shortstop Dansby Swanson, who did it July 1, were the other two players to accomplish the feat.

The 2001 Brewers, 1956 Cincinnati Reds, 1950 Brooklyn Dodgers and now the 2026 Cubs are the only four teams to have four individual three-run home-run games in a season.

Bregman, who hit 12 home runs in August, and Crow-Armstrong, who hit 15, are just the third pair of teammates to each hit at least 12 homers in the same month. Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris did it twice for the Yankees, in July 1961 and June 1960. Iván Rodríguez and Rafael Palmeiro did it in August 1999 with the Texas Rangers.

The Cubs (78-60) will look to keep their bats hot when they play the Brewers (85-53) in the second game of their four-game series Tuesday at 7:40 p.m. ET.