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Al Yellon wrote last week about the sixth anniversary of Kyle Hendrick's only relief appearance, on July 7, 2016. Hendricks entered a game at home against the Braves in the sixth inning with 2...
Based on my extensive research, the Cubs have hit 340 grand slams in their regular-season games since 1876, the first year of the National League. Those 340 slams were hit by 197 different...
Cubs who led NL in pitching categories, Part 1 By JohnW53 on May 11, 2021, 6:38am CDT + 431 times, an average of more than 3 per season. They have led in at least 1 of the 36 categories shown at Baseball-Reference.com in 110 of the 120 seasons. Three of the 10 in which they had no leaders have come in the past 20 seasons: 2001, 2009 and 2014. In 1992, a Cub led in 16 categories; in every one, the leader was Greg Maddux. In 1938, they led in 18, with Bill Lee on top in 14. And in 1918, they were first in 21, including 16 by Hippo Vaughn. ... The Cubs won the pennant in the latt...
No-hitters that went fewer than 9 innings Share 5:46 AM UTC Share share-square-407001 Per the Elias Sports Bureau, a no-hitter needs to be at least nine innings in order to be official. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t seen performances of fewer than nine innings where a pitcher completed a game -- due to weather, or games that were scheduled to be shorter -- that were hitless. There have been 26 such performances on record (since 1901), including Madison Bumgarner’s seven-inning outing against the Braves in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday. Here’s a look at all 26 of those...