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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...

Eddie Rosario of the Braves needed a double to complete a cycle when he came to bat in the ninth inning of Wednesday night's Game 4 of the National League Championship Series at Los Angeles. I...

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...

Second of 3 posts about notable season-ending games that the Cubs have played during their long history. .......... THWARTING THE CARDINALS Sept. 29, 1946 at St. Louis The Cardinals took a half...

Chicago Cubs vs. Philadelphia Phillies preview, Tuesday 7/6, 7:05 CT Share this story Todays roster move: Here Tuesday notes: THE LOSING IS THE HARDEST PART: The current 10-game losing streak is the Cubs’ longest since a 12-game skid, May 15-27, 2012. Before that, you have to go back to 1997, when the Cubs began the season 0-14, for a longer streak. THE NUMBERS ARE BAD: During the 10-game slide, Cubs hitters have batted .207 (67-for-323) with a .298 OBP and a .626 OPS. Cubs pitchers have post...

Spoiler Alert! The Cubs haven't often played the role of spoiler in a pennant race. I wrote recently about the 1946 season, in which the third-place Cubs won 2 of 3 games at St. Louis on the...

When Patrick Wisdom and Javier Baez each homered twice against the Padres on Monday, it was widely reported that they were the first Cubs third baseman and shortstop to hit multiple homers in the...

2021 is the 75th anniversary of 1946, a year in which the Cubs were defending National League champions and posted a winning percentage they would not surpass until 1967. In 1945, they had been 9...

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...

Cubs who led NL in offensive categories By JohnW53 on May 9, 2021, 5:52am CDT + 45 different offensive categories. A Cub has led or tied for the National League lead in at least 1 category in 101 of Hack Wilson led in 17 in 1930; Heinie Zimmerman (1912) and Rogers Hornsby (1929), in 16; Derrek Lee (2005), in 14; and Billy Williams (1972) in 13. At the other extreme, Walt "Moose" Moryn and Lee Walls led the NL only once each while with the Cubs -- tying for most times hit by pitch...