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Since joining the Cubs last season, Frank Schwindel has come to the plate twice in the ninth inning with the bases loaded and 2 outs. On April 24, at Atlanta, he struck out. On Tuesday, at San...

Through April 28, the Cubs have used 2,175 players during their 147 seasons in the National League. Nearly one quarter, 531, played no more than 10 games. There were 13 additions to that list...

Jorge Soler made history in this year's World Series. The Atlanta Braves outfielder became the first player to hit 3 go-ahead home runs in one Series. He hit a homer leading off a game and as a...

Few things in baseball are as dramatic as extra-inning games in the post season -- especially games that could end a series. The Cubs have played 121 post-season games: 60 in the World Series, 32...

On June 30, Jason Heyward was the second Cub due up in the top of the ninth inning at Milwaukee. But after the first batter flied out, Heyward did not come to the plate. Alec Mills pinch hit for...

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. ...

Rarity: Cubs with 4 and 3 hits, just 1 run scored By JohnW53 on May 13, 2021, 9:58am CDT + Willson Contreras had 4 hits for the Cubs and Joc Pederson had 3. That made it only the Cubs fourth game in the entire Modern Era, 1901-2021, in which one of their players had 4 or more hits, another had at least 3, yet the Cubs scored no more than 1 run. ......... MEMORABLE YEAR The first was way back on Aug. 22, 1908, when the Cubs lost at home to the Doves, todays Braves, 3-1, in 15 inn...

Billy Williams unique 4-hit game By JohnW53 on Feb 19, 2021, 4:40am CST + While batting .290/.361/.492, Williams made 2,510 hits. Thirty times, he had 4 in a game, including 8 in which he went 4 for 4. Twice, both in 1969, all 4 of his hits were for extra bases. On Wednesday, April 9, in the second game of the season, Williams smacked 2 doubles, walked, then smacked 2 more doubles, as the Cubs thumped the visiting Phillies, 11-3. It was a different story when he did it again, on Fr...

Cubs milestone wins on road By JohnW53 on Jan 9, 2021, 3:43am CST + 11,000 games in the National League. They ended the season with 11,016. 4,971 on the road. So, the Cubs need 29 more wins to reach 5,000 on the road. They have won at least 30 road games in every full season but one beginning in 2001, and from 2015-19 they averaged 43. They were 15-12 on the road in the shortened 2020 season. ... Two Major League teams already have won 5,000 times on the road: the Giants (5,105) ...