Odd winning formula: Make more runs than hits! By JohnW53 on Apr 29, 2021, 7:20am CDT + In 4 of their first 24 games this season, the Cubs have scored more runs than they made hits. They won 2 of the games, 4-3 vs. the Pirates and 16-4 vs. the Mets. They lost to the Pirates, 5-3, and to the Braves, 8-7. In the win over the Mets, they made 13 hits. In none of the others did they make more than 6. I wondered if that had been typical of the Cubs throughout the Modern Era. I suspected that they rarely won when their hit total was lower than their run total, especially when that total was in single digits.