Elly De La Cruz, the Reds' rookie sensation, dazzled the baseball world on Saturday.
In the eighth inning, at Milwaukee, he lined a single on an 0-2 pitch to give his team a 6-5 lead.
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During the 122 regular seasons of the Modern Era, the Cubs employed a pinch runner 3,074 times.
The first was Frank Chance, at Brooklyn, on June 6, 1902; the most.
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.