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Eddie Rosario of the Braves needed a double to complete a cycle when he came to bat in the ninth inning of Wednesday night's Game 4 of the National League Championship Series at Los Angeles. I...
Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals preview, Saturday 7/10, 6:15 CT Share this story Saturday notes... YOU LOOK FAMILIAR: Including tonight’s game, the Cubs and Cardinals will meet six times between now and July 22. The Cubs lead the season series 6-1. GO, GO, NICO: Over his last four games, Nico Hoerner is hitting .400/.438/.400 (6-for-15) with a walk and no strikeouts. J-HEY!: In his last 18 games since June 17, Jason Heyward is hitting .346/.433/.462 (18-for-52) with three doubles, a home run and seven walks. WILLSON IS HOT: In his last 15 games since June 21, Willson Contreras is hitti...
"It’s a little jarring when ‘Boog’ does a Sox game and I do a Cubs game," Benetti said. "But it’s a testament to the professionalism of everybody here."
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...
Ron Vesely/Chicago White Sox Len Kasper might be the highest-profile person with a new job in the city, moving from the Cubs’ TV booth to the White Sox’ radio booth. So when we talked this week about how it’s going, the first question was obvious: How’s the commute? “I added 9 miles to my commute, but it’s all basically the Kennedy and the Ryan [expressways],” said Kasper, a Glencoe resident. “My trip to Wrigley was shorter, but once you get off on Irving Park or Addison, it can be tricky. So it’s been fine. I throw on an audio book or a podcast.”