The decline and fall of the complete game
The growing trend of "openers" instead of starting pitchers, together with the ever-greater use of relievers, has all but sounded the death knell for complete games in Major League Baseball. In...
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The growing trend of "openers" instead of starting pitchers, together with the ever-greater use of relievers, has all but sounded the death knell for complete games in Major League Baseball. In...
And there’s quite the story about how this game ended.
During the Cubs' 146 seasons in the National League, they have hit 14,659 home runs. Only 2 teams have hit more, the Yankees (16,531) and Giants (15,004). The Cubs' homers were hit by 845 d...
Second of 2 posts. .......... The Cubs have played 16,569 regular-season games since the start of 1916, the earliest year for which play-level data is available at baseball-reference.com In only...
Through Saturday, the Cubs have played 18,805 games since the Modern Era began in 1901. Only a handful of those games have been different from all that came before and after it. Among those...