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Second of 2 posts about post-season starts by pitchers. .......... Since 1903, when the first World Series was played, Major League pitchers have started 4,524 games in the post season. They...

You may have read or heard that the amazing catch, throw and relay by the Braves against the Phillies on Monday night was the first 8-5-3 double play ever to end a post-season game. Let's go a bit...

The first game of tomorrow's doubleheader at Cincinnati will be the 2,400th between the Cubs and Reds since 1890, when the Reds joined the National League following 8 seasons in the rival American...

There were a number of unusual plays during the Cubs' 8-6 win over the Cardinals at Wrigley Field on Saturday, July 22. Among them: a putout by Cubs catcher Yan Gomes that has happened only about...

Mark Leiter Jr. did something Wednesday afternoon against the Rays that no Cubs reliever ever had done before: give up a pair of 2-run homers that were the opposing team's only runs. The first...

6 months from today, Aug. 16, will be the 75th anniversary of Babe Ruth's death. The game's most celebrated player hit 729 home runs during his 22-year career, 714 in the regular season and 15 in...

A previous post described in detail the Cubs' team-record winning streak at home against any opponent: 19 in a row against the Braves. It began with a win on Sept. 23, 1921, and continued through...

A batter who has been hit by a pitch takes extra joy in later slugging a home run -- especially in his very next trip to the plate. How often have Cubs batters enjoyed such immediate revenge? ....

Some of these pitchers were actually good, but had one really bad year.

Cubs who led NL in pitching categories, Part 1 By JohnW53 on May 11, 2021, 6:38am CDT + 431 times, an average of more than 3 per season. They have led in at least 1 of the 36 categories shown at Baseball-Reference.com in 110 of the 120 seasons. Three of the 10 in which they had no leaders have come in the past 20 seasons: 2001, 2009 and 2014. In 1992, a Cub led in 16 categories; in every one, the leader was Greg Maddux. In 1938, they led in 18, with Bill Lee on top in 14. And in ...