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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. ... 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 inside-the-park home runs, 1901-15 By JohnW53 on Apr 23, 2021, 7:29am CDT + Last year, I published a 4-part series of posts about the Cubs inside-the-park home runs. The numbers cited in those posts were obtained using baseball-reference.com s Team Batting Event Finder. But the database that it searches goes back only to 1916. Now, by examining the individual home run logs of every player who homered at least once for the Cubs from 1901-15, I have documented all of the team s inside-the-park homers the Cubs hit in the first decade and a half of the Modern Era. .... During those years, the Cubs hit ....
Copy Link By the time Casey Stengel became manager of the Oakland Oaks for the 1946 season, the franchise already had nearly a half-century of backstory. Sometimes it stood tall and strong among Pacific Coast League competitors, but often seeming overshadowed by the San Francisco Seals, whose city was about five times By the time Casey Stengel became manager of the Oakland Oaks for the 1946 season, the franchise already had nearly a half-century of backstory. Sometimes it stood tall and strong among Pacific Coast League competitors, but often seeming overshadowed by the San Francisco Seals, whose city was about five times the size of the Oaks town of 67,000 when the rivalry began. The Seals story (with their five PCL titles, multiple DiMaggios and Lefty O Doul and hit-crazed Smead Jolley) may be more commonly told, but the Oaks are every bit as much a part of baseball history. ....