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More Cubs vs. American League pitchers By JohnW53 on Jan 29, 2021, 6:38am CST + The previous posts in this series looked at the success -- or lack thereof -- against American League pitchers in All-Star Games of Cubs greats who never batted in the World Series, and only 1 of whom batted in a handful of interleague games. Five players were featured: Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, Ryne Sandberg and Andre Dawson. Each post detailed the player's performance through the lens of the pitchers' ranking among all AL hurlers in total Wins Above Replacement from the first through th...

Result ‘48 and They got ace-like performances, but one shone brilliantly. Roger Erickson pitched a complete game one-hitter, shutting out ‘48 2-0 to push ‘81 one game closer to a bracket escape. Erickson allowed just two baserunners in his Maddux, a Mickey Vernon single and Sherry Robertson walk the only blemishes through 99 pitches. On the opposing rubber, Walt Masterson nearly matched Erickson’s performance, allowing three hits over 6.2 innings. However, one of those hits left the Senators playing from behind, as Roy Smalley opened the bottom of the fourth by lining Masterson’s...