Every once in a while, tempers flare, dugouts and bullpens empty, and players push and shove for a minute or two.
Such altercations are nothing compared to what happened in the Dead Ball Era, when.
Cubs short starts, then scoreless relief By JohnW53 on May 3, 2021, 4:15am CDT +
After Saturday s game at Cincinnati, the Cubs bullpen was roundly praised and deservedly so.
Five relievers combined to shut out the Reds for 5 innings, during which the Cubs turned a 2-0 deficit into a 3-2 victory.
Davies has pitched no more than 4 innings in 5 of his 6 starts this year. Kyle Hendricks has done so 3 times; Jake Arrieta, Alec Mills and Trevor Williams once each, leaving the Cubs total at 11 such games.
They have had
25 per season.
434 of those games
14.2 percent, or 1 of every 7 Cubs relievers did not allow a run the rest of the way.