Highly touted Pete Crow-Armstrong snapped a career-starting 20-plate appearance hitless streak Thursday afternoon by blasting a tie-breaking 2-run homer.
The ball had barely landed in the.
The Cubs are just 7 home runs away from becoming only the third Major League team hit 15,000.
The Yankees are only 12 away from 17,000, followed by the Giants, with 15,347.
5 teams behind the.
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During the 122 regular seasons of the Modern Era, the Cubs employed a pinch runner 3,074 times.
The first was Frank Chance, at Brooklyn, on June 6, 1902; the most.
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Here is an unlikely trio of pitchers:
Walter Johnson
Mark Buehrle
Frank Hiller
They share a distinction among all 7,022 pitchers who have started a.
A batter who has been hit by a pitch takes extra joy in later slugging a home run especially in his very next trip to the plate.
How often have Cubs batters enjoyed such immediate revenge?
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