When a baseball fan hears the term "cycle," he thinks first of a batter who makes at least 1 of each kind of hit single, double, triple and home run in the same.
It has been done 339 times.
According to data at baseball-reference.com, the Cubs have made 18,702 double plays in regular-season National League games through Sunday.
15,120 of them had come since Opening Day of 1915, first.
A series of previous posts documented unusual game-ending plays involving the Cubs, including by outfielders, pitchers and catchers.
This final entry looks at rare plays by infielders.
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A previous post documented games that the Cubs won when the final play was a hit by the opposing team, but the batter or a runner on the bases was retired.
The Cubs have recorded 16 such wins.
Last Friday, at Philadelphia, Nelson Velazquez became just the second Cub ever to hit 2 home runs in a game he did not start.
The first was Thad Bosley, at home against the Expos, on Aug. 12,.