Over the course of a season, a baseball team will average a certain number of runs.
But how many it scores in individual games can vary significantly, sometimes over just a few days.
There was an.
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.
Since the National League began in 1876, the Cubs have played 21,931 regular-season games.
In those games, they have hit 14,818 home runs about 2 homers every 3 games.
They have hit 4 or more.
This delightful story, written by Edward Burns, appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Sept. 7, 1930.
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Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 6. Every.
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.