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Willson Contreras already had homered and doubled against the Reds last Wednesday when he smacked a pitch to deep left center in the eighth inning with nobody on base. Contreras may have thought...

Back-to-back home runs are relatively rare. The Cubs have played 21,809 regular-season games since 1876, first year of the National League. They have hit back-to-back homers 363 times, including...

The play isn't exactly rare, but it occurs often in other levels of baseball than in the Major Leagues: Runners are on first and third. As the pitcher begins his motion, the runner on first breaks...

Less than 6 months from today -- Aug. 25, 2022 -- will be the 100th anniversary of the highest-scoring game in Major League history: Cubs 26, Phillies 23. The centennial will be on a Thursday. The...

In theory, a baseball team can make 6 hits in an inning without scoring a run. For example: 1. Leadoff batter singles and is picked off or caught stealing. 2. Second batter singles and is picked...

Yesterday's post described the Cubs' walk-off victories in which they were shut out until they scored all their runs in their final inning. Based on my search, the Cubs have had 61 such victories...

Third in a series of posts about the evolution of the Cubs' record for largest home crowd, from 1901 through 1929, when they attracted 51,000 for an early-season game against the Cardinals, a total...

Good news for the thousands who have struggled getting unemployment benefits in Virginia since the pandemic began: plans to fix the Virginia Employment...

The most exciting play in baseball is among the rarest: a bases-loaded triple. It is a play that often sends all 13 players on the field into action: the batter, the 3 runners and all 9 fielders. ...

In the History Watch, posted as a comment in each Game Preview, I have been documenting where the 2021 Cubs rank in team history in total hits to that point in the season. For a long stretch, they...