Justin Steele left last Wednesday’s game against the Rays after 3 innings due to forearm tightness.
He became only the second Cubs starter ever to retire 9 batters, then depart. Jose Guzman had.
90 years ago today, on Aug. 31, 1932, the Cubs staged the greatest extra-inning comeback in team history.
And they did it despite batting out of order during their game-winning rally.
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The series that begins tonight at Toronto will be only the Cubs' fourth visit to Toronto to take on the Blue Jays.
The previous ones, also of 3 games, were in 2003, 2008 and 2017.
But the Cubs.
A previous post presented a list of Cubs position players who had played between 75 and 100 games for the team from roughly half a pre-expansion season through a nice, round number and asked.
David Bote's ninth-inning, base-loaded home run that beat the Nationals, 4-3, on Aug. 12, 2018, is unique among Cubs homers.
In fact, there has been only 1 other such "Ultimate Slam" in the entire.