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Unlikely Cubs with 8 RBI in a game, Part 4 By JohnW53 on Jun 9, 2021, 5:55am CDT +
This is the fourth and last in a series of posts about the 4 lesser known of the 8 Cubs who have driven in 8 runs in a single game.
The team record is 9, set by Heinie Zimmerman, in 1911, and tied by Sammy Sosa, in 2002.
The more familiar names with 8 RBI are Rogers Hornsby, in 1931; Babe Herman, in 1933; Ron Santo, in 1970; and Dave Kingman, in 1978.
Previous posts in this series described the big days of Lee Walls, in 1957; Ed Bailey, in 1965; and George Mitterwald, in 1974.
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During 10 seasons in the Major Leagues,
Cubs who drove in all of team s 5 or more runs By JohnW53 on May 31, 2021, 6:32am CDT +
On Sept. 16, he did it again.
No Cub has done it since.
Sosa drove in
6 runs as the Cubs won those games, and they were the only runs the Cubs scored.
No Cub ever has had 7 or more RBI in a game in which the Cubs scored exactly that number of runs.
Besides Sosa, only
6 of the Cubs runs. But they lost that game, 16-6, on April 29, 1960.
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5 runs, all driven in by a single player.
The first of those players was
Bill Nicholson, at Cincinnati on April 26, 1942.
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