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Beginning with a 14-8 win at home over National Association rival Hartford in 1871, the Cubs have played 219 games on Memorial Day in previous seasons. Their first on the road was a 5-1 win at...

You likely have heard that Shota Imanaga is scheduled on Monday to become the first Cubs pitcher to make his big league debut in the team's first home game of the season. Which Cub previously had...

Third in a series of posts about home runs hit by Cubs that are not to be found in baseball's official records. .......... From 1876 through 1909, Cubs hitters lost only 1 home run when a game...

J.D. Martinez hit two home runs for the Dodgers on Tuesday against the Rockies at Coors Field, giving him 300 career home runs. He’s the 156th player in major league history with 300 home runs.

Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman hit a grand slam against Cardinals left-hander Génesis Cabrera on Thursday at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, the 300th career home run for Freeman, just the 155th major league player to do so. Freeman is the fifth player to hit No. 300 while with the Dodgers.

It happened 25 years ago today.

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...

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. ...

A previous post examined how often the Cubs have won and lost games in which they took the lead in the bottom of the eighth inning. They have done so in 418 games since 1915, first season for...

On Friday, the Cubs allowed 4 unearned runs while losing at San Francisco -- and those were the only runs scored by the Giants. That was a long way from the most runs that the Cubs have...