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Here is a "nugget" you are unlikely to hear on a Marquee broadcast of a Cubs game at least, not when Ryan Dempster is in the booth.
Dempster's 18 walks with the.
The Cubs lost by 1-0 Saturday night at Los Angeles on a 2-run, walk-off single.
They had never lost that way before, at least not since 1914, first season for which baseball-reference.com has.
After researching and writing about the all-time and Cubs records for most consecutive complete games by a pitcher, I was curious about other streaks by starters, good and bad.
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Going into their series at New York on Monday, the Cubs had 31 fewer wins than the Mets, with a record of 58-82 to New York's 89-52.
Yet the Cubs swept the 3 games, by scores of 5-2, 4-1 and 6-3.
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