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Rarity: Cubs with 4 and 3 hits, just 1 run scored By JohnW53 on May 13, 2021, 9:58am CDT +
Willson Contreras had 4 hits for the Cubs and Joc Pederson had 3.
That made it only the Cubs
fourth game in the entire Modern Era, 1901-2021, in which one of their players had
4 or more hits, another had at least
3, yet the Cubs scored no more than
1 run.
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MEMORABLE YEAR
The first was way back on Aug. 22, 1908, when the Cubs lost at home to the Doves, today s Braves, 3-1, in 15 innings.
The Cubs made 12 hits in that game, including 4 by Joe Tinker and 3 by Del Howard. Solly Hofman added 2.
Cubs who led NL in offensive categories By JohnW53 on May 9, 2021, 5:52am CDT +
45 different offensive categories.
A Cub has led or tied for the National League lead in at least 1 category in
101 of
Hack Wilson led in
17 in 1930; Heinie Zimmerman (1912) and Rogers Hornsby (1929), in 16; Derrek Lee (2005), in 14; and Billy Williams (1972) in 13.
At the other extreme, Walt Moose Moryn and Lee Walls led the NL only once each while with the Cubs tying for most times hit by pitches in 1958, with 8.
Ernie Banks led in WAR (10.2) and defensive WAR (3.5) in 1959, when he was voted Most Valuable Player for the second straight season. But he was only third in offensive WAR (7.8), trailing Hank Aaron (9.1) and Eddie Mathews (8.4).
Hitters streaks of homering in consecutive games By JohnW53 on May 8, 2021, 4:48am CDT +
Only the Yankees (16,350) and Giants (14,804) have hit more.
The Cubs have hit at least 1 homer in as many as
17 consecutive games. They have homered in at least
10 straight games
5 games in a row.
Intriguingly, neither have the Braves, who had hit the fourth most total homers, 14,047.
Nor have the Dodgers, Phillies or Reds. That makes 5 of the 8 National League teams that existed before 1962. The record for all 5 teams is 5.
.
On the other hand, the Padres had a streak of 6 by Graig Nettles in 1984.
Morgan Ensberg homered in 6 straight games for the Astros in 2006, when they still were in the NL.
Previous anniversaries of Cubs first league game By JohnW53 on May 7, 2021, 4:43am CDT +
The Cubs are scheduled to host the Pirates today, May 7 the
150th anniversary of their first league game, also played at home: their National Association debut, a victory over the Cleveland Forest Citys.
After 3 innings at the Union Grounds, the White Stockings, as they were known then, led, 14-1. But they barely hung on to win, 14-12.
I described that game in detail in a previous post.
Then I wondered how the Cubs had fared on other significant anniversaries of that historic win.
Here is what I found: