Cubs who led NL in pitching categories, Part 1 By JohnW53 on May 11, 2021, 6:38am CDT +
431 times, an average of more than 3 per season.
They have led in at least 1 of the 36 categories shown at Baseball-Reference.com in
110 of the 120 seasons. Three of the 10 in which they had no leaders have come in the past 20 seasons: 2001, 2009 and 2014.
In 1992, a Cub led in
16 categories; in every one, the leader was Greg Maddux.
In 1938, they led in
18, with Bill Lee on top in 14.
And in 1918, they were first in
21, including 16 by Hippo Vaughn.
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The Cubs won the pennant in the latter 2 seasons. They led in 14, 13 and 12 categories in 3 other title years: 1945, 1932 and 1929.
Cubs short starts, then scoreless relief By JohnW53 on May 3, 2021, 4:15am CDT +
After Saturday s 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 at 11 such games.
They have had
25 per season.
434 of those games
14.2 percent, or 1 of every 7 Cubs relievers did not allow a run the rest of the way.
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During the 1910 season, the Chicago Tribune regularly published funny, sometimes hilarious, poems that it said were written by Frank Schulte, the Cubs' colorful, hard-hitting, lefty-swinging right.
Cubs longest streaks of scoring 0-2 runs By JohnW53 on Mar 4, 2021, 6:46am CST +
You probably remember the 5 consecutive games in 2018 in which they scored exactly 1 run.
In 2015, they scored 10 runs during
8 straight games while tallying
,
7 different 0-2 droughts that lasted
4 games.
19 total stretches of at
least
2 runs.
They have had
90 such stretches since 1901, the first year of the Modern Era, which is an average of 3 during every 4 seasons.
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Their longest run of futility came in May of 1988.
On Sunday, the 8th, the Cubs outslugged the visiting Giants, 13-7. It was the second time in just 6 games they had chalked up 13 runs.