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Cubs' only Opening Day grand slam

Cubs batters have hit 344 grand slams in regular-season games since 1876.
Only 1 of them came on Opening Day.
It happened in the 77th of their 147 season debuts, on Tuesday, April 15, 1952, in. ....

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Cubs' pinch runners, Part 1

How often does a pinch runner score?
For the Cubs, in the Modern Era, the answer is 29.3 percent of the time, according to my analysis of data and play-by-play at baseball-reference.com, plus. ....

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Cubs' wins, losses on last-play fly out and DP

Jigger Statz
Mandy Brooks
Earl Webb
Riggs Stephenson
Andre Dawson
Those are the only 5 Cubs outfielders since 1903 who caught a fly ball, then threw out a runner at home to end a game.
The. ....

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Cubs' losses on last-play hit plus out

A previous post documented games that the Cubs won when the final play was a hit by the opposing team, but the batter or a runner on the bases was retired.
The Cubs have recorded 16 such wins. ....

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Cubs with lowest percentage of extra-base hits

Patrick Wisdom recently became the 374th player to reach 500 plate appearances as a Cub.
He is the 343rd non-pitcher.
They average 1,894 PA. Ernie Banks had the most, 10,396, followed by Cap. ....

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