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Here's a trivia question that I doubt anyone can answer correctly. I know that I couldn't before looking it up! Which batter for the Cubs hit the most home runs in World Series games? I'll wait. ...

Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night at Houston was the 169th post-season game decided in extra innings. 3 more ended in ties. J.T. Realmuto's 1-out solo home run for the Phillies in the...

Here is a play that was not made.

Commentators on broadcasts of the current League Championship Series have made much of the fact that if either series goes the full 7 games, teams will square off on 5 straight days to complete it. ...

Second of 2 posts .......... Between Opening Day of 1915 and Closing Day of 2022, the Cubs hit for a cycle in an inning at least 89 times. "At least" is because baseball-reference.com does not...

On Saturday, with 2 out and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning, Oscar Gonzalez of the Guardians grounded a ball into left field that drove home 2 runs to beat the Yankees, 6-5. It...

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...

Second of 2 posts. .......... Charles Comiskey had come to Chicago in 1890 to manage the Pirates, the city's entry in the new Players League. When the league folded after 1 season, he returned...

Intentional walks have been part of baseball almost as long as there has been baseball. Cubs batters have been walked intentionally 4,657 times since the start of 1915, first season for which...

A triple is by far the rarest hit in Major League Baseball. This season, according to data at baseball-reference.com, there have been 0.13 triples per team per game. For comparison, there have...