The Cubs have played exactly 8,400 regular-season games at Wrigley Field since it became their home in 1916.
In 639 of them, about 1 of every 13, they have hit 3 or more home runs.
They have done.
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.
Previous posts documented the Cubs' wins and losses in games that ended with:
1. A strikeout/throwout doubleplay
2. A runner attempting a straight steal
3. A pickoff
Today's topic: wins that.
"What followed was something I don’t think I’ve seen before," Al Yellon wrote in his recap of the Cubs' 6-3 win on Monday.
"If that’s happened before, it’s got to be pretty rare a.