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Over the course of a season, a baseball team will average a certain number of runs. But how many it scores in individual games can vary significantly, sometimes over just a few days. There was an...
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...
Since the National League began in 1876, the Cubs have played 21,931 regular-season games. In those games, they have hit 14,818 home runs -- about 2 homers every 3 games. They have hit 4 or more...
This delightful story, written by Edward Burns, appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Sept. 7, 1930. (Some paragraph breaks added for easier reading.) .......... Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 6. -- Every...
A triple is by far the rarest hit in Major League Baseball. This season, according to data at baseball-reference.com, there have been 0.13 triples per team per game. For comparison, there have...