Cubs batters have hit 344 grand slams in regular-season games since 1876.
Only 1 of them came on Opening Day.
It happened in the 77th of their 147 season debuts, on Tuesday, April 15, 1952, in.
The Cubs have used exactly 2,200 different players in their 147 seasons in the National League.
Only 8 of them were born on St. Patrick's Day.
Yet the 4 hitters combined to play in 2,154 games as.
On May 15 of this year, in the Cubs' 3-2 win at Arizona, 5 of their 8 hits were for extra bases.
None of the 5 was a triple.
Exactly 25 years earlier, on May 15, 1997, while beating the Padres at.
When a baseball fan hears the term "cycle," he thinks first of a batter who makes at least 1 of each kind of hit single, double, triple and home run in the same.
It has been done 339 times.
During a game of last week's Mets-Padres Wild Card Series, a broadcaster noted that Josh Bell of San Diego had an 18-game hitting streak against New York.
I'd never given any thought about hitting.