When Patrick Wisdom and Javier Baez each homered twice against the Padres on Monday, it was widely reported that they were the first Cubs third baseman and shortstop to hit multiple homers in the.
Cubs pitchers who homered twice in game By JohnW53 on Feb 6, 2021, 4:01am CST + .... According to my research, of the 14,449 home runs that the Cubs hit have hit since 1876, first year of the National League, exactly 317 were hit by pitchers. That number is 17 fewer than the team s 334 grand slams during the same 145 seasons. . 5 games in which a Cubs pitcher homered twice, the last of them in 1971. But by going through the website s individual Home Run Logs for every Cubs pitcher, I identified 3 more times that it happened, all before the Modern Era began in 1901. Following, in chronological order, is a look at each of the pitchers who hit 2 home runs in a game.
Home runs hit by Cubs pitchers By JohnW53 on Feb 5, 2021, 6:34am CST + With the National League adopting the designated hitter for 2020, Cubs pitchers hit no home runs. They had hit at least 1 in each of the previous 19 seasons, the second-longest such streak in team history, surpassed only by 25 straight seasons, 1918-42. . The first pitcher to hit a homer for the Cubs was Larry Corcoran, on June 20, 1882. The right hander was 22 years old, in his third season with the team then known as the White Stockings, when he hit an inside-the-park grand slam in the ninth inning of a 13-3 victory over the Worcester Ruby Legs.