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GAMES PLAYED 69th game will be their 22,000th during the regular season in the National League. No. 69 on schedule is on Thursday, June 15, at home vs. Pirates. 145th game will be 19,000th of...
Second of 2 posts .......... 768 players have hit a home run as a Cub since 1901, first season of the Modern Era. On average, their first homer came in their 23rd game. It took position players...
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...
Third and last in a series of posts .......... On Sept. 19, 1950, Frank Hiller of the Cubs became the 33rd pitcher to face the minimum of 27 batters in a 9-inning complete game without pitching a...
We have enough clues to figure this one out, and there are a couple of interesting sidelights from this game.