Pete Crow-Armstrong has hit 1 big league home run while playing 17 games.
Ernie Banks hit 512 homers in his 2,528 games.
But PCA and "Mr. Cub" are tied in another batting category: each made 1.
Ian Happ was hit by a pitch thrown by Bryan Abreu of the Astros in the seventh inning Wednesday afternoon. It was the 5th time a Cub was plunked at home this season and the 2,000th in the team's.
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
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It is also how the careers of the Cubs' best players have ended.
I decided to look at the last.
Cody Bellinger batted .307 in 2023.
That was the highest average among the 8 Cubs who had at least 324 plate appearances, 2 per game.
Bellinger led all Cubs in runs batted in, with 97.
He tied.