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A previous post presented a list of Cubs position players who had played between 75 and 100 games for the team -- from roughly half a pre-expansion season through a nice, round number -- and asked...
How many games have the Cubs won in the Modern Era after not scoring before the ninth inning? After extensive research, the answer appears to be 164, equivalent to about 1 full season of the 121...
Second of 3 posts about notable season-ending games that the Cubs have played during their long history. .......... THWARTING THE CARDINALS Sept. 29, 1946 at St. Louis The Cardinals took a half...
Rarity: Cubs with 4 and 3 hits, just 1 run scored By JohnW53 on May 13, 2021, 9:58am CDT + Willson Contreras had 4 hits for the Cubs and Joc Pederson had 3. That made it only the Cubs' fourth game in the entire Modern Era, 1901-2021, in which one of their players had 4 or more hits, another had at least 3, yet the Cubs scored no more than 1 run. ......... MEMORABLE YEAR The first was way back on Aug. 22, 1908, when the Cubs lost at home to the Doves, today's Braves, 3-1, in 15 innings. The Cubs made 12 hits in that game, including 4 by Joe Tinker and 3 by Del Howard. Solly Hof...
Steals by Cubs first basemen and pitchers By JohnW53 on May 6, 2021, 7:20am CDT + A previous post documented the 10 steals of home by Cubs catchers since 1920. That post also noted that the Cubs have had exactly 500 steals of any base by their catchers during the entire Modern Era, which began in 1901. That got me thinking about 2 other positions not usually associated with stolen bases: first base and pitcher. .......... MISSING SPLITS Finding the number of steals at a specific fielding position for players during the Dead Ball Era proved challenging Baseball-reference.com does n...