As a baseball fan, you certainly know that the longest hitting streak in the Major Leagues is 56 games, by Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees in 1941.
As a Cubs fan, you may know that the longest hitting.
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768 players have hit a home run as a Cub since 1901, first season of the Modern Era.
On average, their first homer came in their 23rd game.
It took position players.
As you may have heard, the Cubs snapped a 10-game losing streak Friday by beating the Braves, 1-0.
That streak was the Cubs' third of double digits in the last calendar year, something they never.
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The Cubs will start tonight's game against the Brewers needing to score only 8 more runs to become the first team to reach 100,000 since the start of the National League in 1876.
Their 99,992 are 1.