A previous post revealed that the Cubs' loss at Philadelphia on Sunday was only their second by 1-2 in which the opposing team's runs came on a 2-run homer by a pinch hitter.
The only earlier such.
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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.
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.
On Saturday, May 13, 2017, the Cubs and Cardinals met in the middle game of a weekend series at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.
A leadoff home run in the fourth inning gave the Cards a 2-1 lead.
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