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The most exciting play in baseball is among the rarest: a bases-loaded triple. It is a play that often sends all 13 players on the field into action: the batter, the 3 runners and all 9 fielders. ...
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...
Billy Williams' unique 4-hit game By JohnW53 on Feb 19, 2021, 4:40am CST + While batting .290/.361/.492, Williams made 2,510 hits. Thirty times, he had 4 in a game, including 8 in which he went 4 for 4. Twice, both in 1969, all 4 of his hits were for extra bases. On Wednesday, April 9, in the second game of the season, Williams smacked 2 doubles, walked, then smacked 2 more doubles, as the Cubs thumped the visiting Phillies, 11-3. It was a different story when he did it again, on Friday, Sept. 5, in the opener of a weekend series against the Pirates at Wrigley Field. .......... S...
Cubs' milestone wins on road By JohnW53 on Jan 9, 2021, 3:43am CST + 11,000 games in the National League. They ended the season with 11,016. 4,971 on the road. So, the Cubs need 29 more wins to reach 5,000 on the road. They have won at least 30 road games in every full season but one beginning in 2001, and from 2015-19 they averaged 43. They were 15-12 on the road in the shortened 2020 season. ... Two Major League teams already have won 5,000 times on the road: the Giants (5,105) and Dodgers (5,026). The Cardinals (4,989) also have more road wins than the Cubs. The Cubs' first ...