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Pete Crow-Armstrong tripled in the eighth inning on May 15 at Atlanta. Three innings earlier, in his previous trip to the plate, he had singled. That is notable, but not exactly uncommon. Nico...

Since the Modern Era began in 1901, the highest batting average in any month by a Cub who had at least 50 plate appearances is .491, by Cliff Heathcote, in August of 1927. It's likely that some of...

Trey Mancini's line in the box score of the Cubs' 10-4 win over the Cardinals last Wednesday was: 1 AB, 3 R, 1 H, 0 RBI Mancini walked with 1 out in the second and was stranded at second. He...

On April 18, at Oakland, Michael Rucker issued a 1-out walk in the ninth inning. On the next pitch, Tony Kemp hit a ground ball to second baseman Nico Hoerner, who threw the ball to shortstop...

Second of 2 posts .......... The Cubs have played 16,887 regular-season games since the start of of 1915, the first season for which baseball-reference.com has play-by-play data. In exactly 253 g...

A series of previous posts documented unusual game-ending plays involving the Cubs, including by outfielders, pitchers and catchers. This final entry looks at rare plays by infielders. .......... ...

A previous post looked at games in which the Cubs gave up the most runs, all unearned (7, three times), and most unearned runs, period (12, once). Of course, the Cubs have been the beneficiaries...

From 1876 through last night, the Cubs have hit 14,747 home runs in regular-season games. That is the third-highest total in big league history, behind only the Yankees (16,681) and Giants...

As you may have heard, the Cubs snapped a 10-game losing streak Friday by beating the Braves, 1-0. That streak was the Cubs' third of double digits in the last calendar year, something they never...

Sammy Sosa, with 545 home runs, and Ernie Banks, with 512, head the list of 845 different players who hit at least 1 homer for the Cubs in National League regular-season games from 1876 through...