Pete Crow-Armstrong tripled in the eighth inning on May 15 at Atlanta. Three innings earlier, in his previous trip to the plate, he had singled.
That is notable, but not exactly uncommon. Nico.
No doubt about it: Players' salaries today are astronomical.
But for many years, they were absurdly low. Ernie Banks never made more than $60,000 in a season; Hack Wilson, $33,000; or Gabby.
Second in a series of posts about uncommon suspended games involving the Cubs.
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After their first suspended game in 1934, described in the previous post, the Cubs did not have another.
Many baseball fans were stunned Saturday when they Clayton Kershaw, long-time star of the Dodgers, give up 6 runs in the first inning of the Division Series against the Diamondbacks.
The first 5.
A previous post, prompted by an untimely error by Ian Happ, examined fly balls dropped by Cubs in the outfield.
Prominent in that post was an account of the ball muffed by Brant Brown at Milwaukee.