On April 18, at Oakland, Michael Rucker issued a 1-out walk in the ninth inning.
On the next pitch, Tony Kemp hit a ground ball to second baseman Nico Hoerner, who threw the ball to shortstop.
A previous post reported that the Cubs have lost 19 games that ended with a runner being thrown out on a straight steal attempts, and 6 that concluded with a tag on a pickoff.
That's a total of 25.
Cubs historical sleuthing: Late 1930s edition
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The poster, Rachel LaBant, said she found it in a family album.
Well, of course you know that set me to sleuthing, especially since this was a photo I’d never seen before.
What do we know about this photo? First, it was taken not long after the iconic bleachers and scoreboard were built. We know this because there’s no clock on the board; that was installed in June 1941. Here’s a post I did sleuthing a photo from May 1941, only about a month before the clock was installed, one of the only color photos of the board painted brown. It also can’t be from the first year, 1938, because photos and video from that year’s World Series show the ivy still barely grown in: