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Pete Crow-Armstrong has hit 1 big league home run while playing 17 games. Ernie Banks hit 512 homers in his 2,528 games. But PCA and "Mr. Cub" are tied in another batting category: each made 1...

As a baseball fan, you certainly know that the longest hitting streak in the Major Leagues is 56 games, by Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees in 1941. As a Cubs fan, you may know that the longest hitting...

Since 1901, Cubs have played 25 games that ended in extra innings with both teams having scored at least 10 runs. They have won 13 and lost 12. The first was not until 1935, a 14-13 loss at home...

Think Tuesday’s game was high-scoring? This one was crazy.

Second of 2 posts .......... Here is a "nugget" you are unlikely to hear on a Marquee broadcast of a Cubs game -- at least, not when Ryan Dempster is in the booth. Dempster's 18 walks with the...

The Cubs lost by 1-0 Saturday night at Los Angeles on a 2-run, walk-off single. They had never lost that way before, at least not since 1914, first season for which baseball-reference.com has...

The New York Mets don't need that one dominant closer. They can win with a bullpen by committee.

After researching and writing about the all-time and Cubs records for most consecutive complete games by a pitcher, I was curious about other streaks by starters, good and bad. .......... ALL...

Going into their series at New York on Monday, the Cubs had 31 fewer wins than the Mets, with a record of 58-82 to New York's 89-52. Yet the Cubs swept the 3 games, by scores of 5-2, 4-1 and 6-3. ...

Cubs short starts, then scoreless relief By JohnW53 on May 3, 2021, 4:15am CDT + After Saturdays game at Cincinnati, the Cubs bullpen was roundly praised -- and deservedly so. Five relievers combined to shut out the Reds for 5 innings, during which the Cubs turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 victory. Davies has pitched no more than 4 innings in 5 of his 6 starts this year. Kyle Hendricks has done so 3 times; Jake Arrieta, Alec Mills and Trevor Williams once each, leaving the Cubs total...