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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.
145-year chain of Cubs pitchers and catchers By JohnW53 on Dec 21, 2020, 5:59am CST +
Or fascinating.
I lean toward fascinating:
There is a nearly unbroken chain of pitchers and catchers from the Cubs first National League game in 1876 all the way to the last week of the 2020 schedule.
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This incredible chain consists not just of a pitcher and catcher who were ON the team in the same season.
It consists of a pitcher and catcher who were on the field together in the
LAST GAME either the pitcher or catcher played for the Cubs, under their team s various names, through 145 seasons!
Cubs historical sleuthing: Early 2000s edition
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Recently, I put a call out for readers to send in photos they’d like me to sleuth, and I’ve received some good ones.
This photo, sent by Joseph Boyle, was pretty easy to sleuth, given the clear shot of the scoreboard, with matchups easily readable.
It was taken pre-bleacher expansion, so that dates it to before 2006. Also, “SAN FRANCISCO” is clearly visible on the board. For a time in the 1980s and 1990s, the team inexplicably abbreviated that as “SAN FRAN” rather than make the letters thinner and fit the entire city name. That ended after 1996.