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The Cubs go for their second straight over the Reds.

Back-to-back home runs are relatively rare. The Cubs have played 21,809 regular-season games since 1876, first year of the National League. They have hit back-to-back homers 363 times, including...

The 3 home runs hit by Josh Rojas of the Diamondbacks at Wrigley Field on Friday afternoon extended a peculiar streak. At least 1 player has homered 3 times in a game against the Cubs for 6 s...

6/8/2010: It is a well-known fact that the great black pitcher Satchel Paige played for the Bismarck semi-professional baseball team in 1933 and in 1935. What might not be known is that Paige's highest strike-out total for a single game in those two seasons was twenty, in a nine-inning game against the Beulah Miners ballclub on August 18, 1933. Bismarck won 8-0, and Paige gave up just three hits - two singles and a double - and did not allow a single base-on-balls.

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...