When the Cubs won at Miami, 2-1, on Tuesday, David Bote delivered both runs, with a seventh-inning solo homer and an eighth-inning sacrifice fly.
Since 1901, only one previous Cub had homered and.
A triple is by far the rarest hit in Major League Baseball.
This season, according to data at baseball-reference.com, there have been 0.13 triples per team per game.
For comparison, there have.
Jigger Statz
Mandy Brooks
Earl Webb
Riggs Stephenson
Andre Dawson
Those are the only 5 Cubs outfielders since 1903 who caught a fly ball, then threw out a runner at home to end a game.
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Through Friday, 201 different batters have hit multiple homers for the Cubs during the Modern Era.
They have done so a total of 790 times.
Only 31 of them did it while playing catcher, a total of.
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.