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Highly touted Pete Crow-Armstrong snapped a career-starting 20-plate appearance hitless streak Thursday afternoon by blasting a tie-breaking 2-run homer. The ball had barely landed in the...

Alexander Canario electrified Wrigley Field on Tuesday night when he hit a grand slam against the Pirates in the first start of his career. It was widely reported that no Cub had done that since...

The Cubs reliever did it all, helping put his team in a first-place tie.

Plus Brandon Hughes on his Cubs pitching path, Yonder Alonso on not feeling like Superman, Cardinals shirtseys, facts and stats galore, and more.

Here he is scoring a run as a Cub.

There are a lot of interesting things that flowed from this game.

Last Thursday, Seiya Suzuki hit a solo home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Cubs a 3-2 lead over the Reds. Cincinnati scored twice in the ninth and won the game, 4-3. I...

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...

During the Cubs' 146 seasons in the National League, they have hit 14,659 home runs. Only 2 teams have hit more, the Yankees (16,531) and Giants (15,004). The Cubs' homers were hit by 845 d...

145-year chain of Cubs pitchers and catchers By JohnW53 on Dec 21, 2020, 5:59am CST + Or fascinating. I lean toward fascinating: There is a nearly unbroken chain of pitchers and catchers from the Cubs first National League game in 1876 all the way to the last week of the 2020 schedule. ... This incredible chain consists not just of a pitcher and catcher who were ON the team in the same season. It consists of a pitcher and catcher who were on the field together in the LAST GAME eith...