GM Interviews Happening, Managerial Extension, Adam's Great Outing, and Other Cubs Bullets bleachernation.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bleachernation.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Cubs have made dubious history this season with losing streaks of 11 and 12 games. Never before had they had 2 double-digit string of defeats in the same year. Since 1945, they have had 13.
Pitchers, catchers who homered in same game bleedcubbieblue.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bleedcubbieblue.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Former Cubs pitcher Dick Tidrow dies at 74 bleedcubbieblue.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bleedcubbieblue.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Games-played streaks, Part 1: Billy Williams By JohnW53 on Apr 25, 2021, 7:03am CDT + In some, the player rarely took an inning off, let alone missed a game. Early in Cal Ripken Jr. s record streak of 2,632 games, he played 8,264 straight innings. The second-longest such stretch in the Modern Era is just 4,620. Ernie Banks had the second-longest since 1940: 3,223, less than 40 percent of Ripken s total. Every long streak included games in which a player pinch hit, pinch ran or appeared only as a defensive replacement. Some players kept their streaks going with what can only be described as gimmicks. In the 1,427th of Lou Gehrig s 2,130 games, at Detroit in July 1934, he was listed as the Yankees shortstop and batted leadoff. He singled, then gave way to a pinch runner.
April 9, 2021 The mystery pitcher began appearing in my morning box scores during the second half of September 1980. Sometimes he was Valenzuela, others Valenzla, but every time I looked, he had zeroes next to his name. I couldn’t find him in my baseball card set, my Street & Smith’s Official Yearbook 1980, or my Complete Handbook of Baseball 1980. All I knew was that suddenly he was one of the Dodgers’ most reliable relievers, a rookie thrown into the fire of a three-way NL West race between the Dodgers, Astros, and Reds. What I didn’t know was that just over six months later, everybody who was anybody would know the name Fernando Valenzuela and the trail of zeroes he left in his wake. Fernandomania was coming.
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