MILWAUKEE -- With a short turnaround after an extra-inning game, the Chicago Cubs needed major league ERA leader Kyle Hendricks to provide a strong start Monday afternoon.Hendricks delivered six strong innings and the Cubs broke away late to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-2.After like really awkward games, he has really picked us up, Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. Thats just who he is. He normally gets you deeply into the game.Thats who he is, man. You pretty much have an idea what youre going to get when he goes out there, he said.Pinch hitter Chris Coghlan came through with a go-ahead single in a two-run seventh. He stayed in the game and got a two-run single in a four-run eighth for the NL Central leaders.Hendricks (14-7) gave up one run -- on Chris Carters 33rd homer -- and five hits in six innings, and left with a 2.07 ERA. He is 5-0 with a 1.30 ERA over his last seven starts.The right-hander has allowed three or fewer earned runs in each of his last 19 starts, which is the longest streak by any pitcher in the majors this season.After that at-bat (Carter home run), I did a much better job kind of pitching inside, just to give myself some more room glove-side, Hendricks said.It was 1-all in the seventh when Zach Davies (10-7) retired the first two batters. Montero then doubled and scored on the single by Coghlan, who took second on the throw.Tommy La Stella followed with an infield single that second baseman Scooter Gennett misplayed into the outfield, allowing Coghlan to score.If we dont do it right out of the gate, then our belief is always that well do it before its over, Coghlan said. I dont think we ever lose that. And thats why were so confident. And thats why its tough to shut us out and to keep us down.Davies allowed two earned runs on six hits over 6 2/3 innings.Chicago tied the game in the sixth on a two-out, broken-bat single by Jorge Soler.Every run they scored, even the base hits he gave up, that was soft contact, Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. Some jam shots. If anything, they get rewarded for contact today. It wasnt hard contact, it was just contact and they got rewarded for that. He pitched great.Jason Heyward and Javier Baez drove in runs in the eighth off Ben Rowen before Coghlan capped the inning with his hit against Rob Scahill.Ryan Braun hit his 25th homer in the Milwaukee ninth.STREAK OVERKris Bryant went 0 for 5, ending his streak of consecutive games reaching base at a career-best 21. It was the second-longest run by a Cubs player this season. Anthony Rizzo reached in 26 straight games over parts of April and May.TRADE COMPLETEThe Brewers acquired minor league outfielder Ryan Cordell from Texas on Sunday as the player to be named in the trade that sent Jonathan Lucroy and Jeremy Jeffress to the Rangers on Aug. 1.TRAINERS ROOMCubs: RHP Hector Rondon is expected to be activated from the disabled list Tuesday, according to Maddon. Rondon has been out since Aug. 17 with a right triceps strain.Brewers: SS Jonathan Villar returned to the lineup Sunday after not starting Milwaukees past two games with a sore left knee.UP NEXTCubs: RHP Jason Hammel (14-7, 3.14 ERA) will start the second game of the series in Milwaukee. He is 10-1 with a 2.50 ERA in 14 career starts against the Brewers.Brewers: RHP Wily Peralta (5-9, 5.53) will make his 19th start of the season Tuesday. He is coming off his best outing of the year in which he allowed one run and struck out 10 on Aug. 30 against St. Louis. Cheap Air Max Wholesale . 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LeBrun: Over the last 48 hours, hes taken in the home-and-home between the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche with Jamie Benn and Matt Duchene being the obvious targets. If one moment defines Nico Rosbergs 2016 world championship season, it deserves to be lap 20 of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.Mercedes, whose drivers had both pitted, led comfortably but had failed to shake the chasing pack, with Lewis Hamilton not building much of a gap at the start and leaving Rosberg close to the clutches of Red Bull and Ferrari behind. At this point the top six were split by less than 10 seconds and the Red Bull of Max Verstappen, who had been flipped onto a one-stop strategy after his Turn 1 spin and was therefore yet to stop, sat between the Mercedes drivers.Verstappen was due a pit stop but Rosberg was in danger of slipping back into Kimi Raikkonen and Daniel Ricciardos battle. Ahead of lap 20, Mercedes told him it was now critical to get past the Red Bull driver -- Rosberg obliged. Catching the Red Bull down the backstraight, he dived down the inside of the second chicane, going wheel-to-wheel with the teenager. The pair were level coming out of the corner but Rosberg showed incredible poise and held firm, even as the Red Bull edged closer to his wheels.The media centre collectively inhaled a breath as the two cars seemed to go through the second part of the chicane in slow-motion. After a moment where it looked like contact was imminent, Rosberg undercut the Dutch teenager on the exit, before powering past at the Turn 10 kink to move back into second.Speaking afterwards, Rosberg hinted that it was one of the most stressful moments of his grand prix carer.That was a not a nice thing to do, he said of the overtake. Its critical to pass Verstappen -- thats not a nice thing to hear, that was really bad, a horrible feeling...The feeling that I had right after I passed him I have never had that in a race car before in my life. I dont want it to happen again.With his second pit-stop approaching, a series of fastest laps followed from Rosberg on laps 22, 23 and 24. As Rosberg made that second stop on lap 29 it looked like Mercedes was headed towards a routine one-two finish, and the German towards a maiden world championship. But Hamilton wasnt done there and soon his race tactic became clear -- back Rosberg up at every opportunity and hope the cars behind could spoil his teammates race and season.Rosberg and Mercedes seemed genuinely surprised Hamilton employed the tactic, but it was one predicted by Red Bull team principal Christian Horner ahead of the weekend. To become champion, Rosberg would have to withstand enormous pressure for ten laps knowing one mistake on the tight and twisty Yas Marina circuit -- renowned as one of the toughest on the calendar for overtaking -- could cost him his lifes ambition.While juggling the two cars getting closer and closer in his mirrors Rosberg admits he was also sceptical about how slow Hamilton would get....The last ten laps as I could see them coming with what Lewis was doing and I didnt know how far he was going to push it. He could just go completely extreme and then made a right mess. I didnt know what to expect so that was also very, very tough.Rosberg was faced with several options. Attack Hamilton and try and get clear of the danger, but at the risk of contact or a mistake, or let the faster Vettel through and take his chances against a Red Bull on the same tyre compound -- albeit a Red Bull driven by Verstappen, who had Rosbergs number on a couple of occasions this year. But after considering both, Rosberg decided his only option was to hold on for dear life.When asked if he considered going for the lead, he said: I couldnt, I was trying at times, but Lewis was driving really well. He pushed flatout from Tuurn 21 all the way through the first sector and halfway through the second sector and that is where you overtake so I was never getting close enough.dddddddddddd. He has the same car as me so in fast corners there was no way for me to get past and then he backed off in the next part where you cant overtake. There was no way for me.I had Sebastian Vettel behind so I wanted to try to hold on to second because once I drop one place to avoid a mess in front I knew Verstappen would be right behind so I didnt want that, with him right behind [me] either...Hamiltons tactic required Rosberg to make a mistake or crumble under the pressure from behind. The German did neither, turning in a faultless drive as good as any we saw this season -- exceptional given the circumstances and with everything to lose. In that regard it had shades of Jenson Buttons drive at the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, an assured, career-defining performance to silence the final doubters about his worthiness to win the world championship. There was no luck involved, just a demonstration of balls of steel from a man determined to seize his destiny and who has looked stronger and stronger since his win at the Belgian Grand Prix.On the topic of luck, lets address that too. As Nicos father Keke pointed out after the race, no world champion has ever won a title without a bit of fortune. For all of Hamiltons engines woes this season, it is fair to argue the failures have evened out over the three years theyve been in a dominant car -- Rosberg suffered a race-ending failure on the grid of the 2014 Singapore Grand Prix that helped Hamilton take the championship lead, while reliability issues on the No. 6 car in Italy and Russia the following year eased the Brit closer to a third championship. Felipe Massa might also have a thing or two to say about Hamilton and luck and 2008. Its all relative.Even if they hadnt been evened out over three years, its hard to know what Rosberg was supposed to do in those situations -- he can hardly be expected to pull over and allow the championship fight to reset itself. All he could do is maximise the job in front of him and so often this season he did. He had a mid-season lull and looked dead and buried at the summer break, but showed remarkable mental fortitude to come back and beat a man he himself rates as one of the all-time greats in Formula One.After Hamiltons decisive penalty in Belgium, Rosberg stepped up a gear -- his win at Spa was routine, but faultless. In Italy he beat the slow-starting Hamilton off the line to win, before his dominant display in Singapore. Those three victories came before Hamiltons engine failure but built the foundations for what followed Sepang -- another decisive display in Japan, taking Hamiltons destiny out of his own hands and allowing Rosberg the luxury of four second-place finishes to wrap up the title.If we are talking luck, fans of both drivers must consider the incredible unlikelihood and fortune in F1 -- just ask Fernando Alonso -- of having a dominant car for three years in a row, especially when Mercedes has spent that time period largely unchallenged out in front. All other arguments aside, Rosberg has proven a lot of people wrong this season and made many journalists -- including this writer -- eat their words about his ability to follow in his fathers footsteps. How he got there is now largely irrelevant -- he seized the moment in fine style and will now forever hold the title 2016 world drivers champion. ' ' '