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Tommy Pham, long a thorn in the side of the Cubs, made 4 hits for the Diamondbacks in Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday.
He was due up again in the ninth inning, but asked Manager Torey.
A previous post looked at the fewest and most hits the Cubs have made while scoring 0, 1, 2 and 3 runs.
Today: the most and fewest runs the Cubs have scored while making at least 15 hits.
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How often does a pinch runner score?
For the Cubs, in the Modern Era, the answer is 29.3 percent of the time, according to my analysis of data and play-by-play at baseball-reference.com, plus.
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The Cubs have played 16,887 regular-season games since the start of of 1915, the first season for which baseball-reference.com has play-by-play data.
In exactly 253 g.