When Trey Mancini's single scored Seiya Suzuki from third base in the seventh inning Wednesday afternoon, the Cubs were 6 outs away from doing something that had done only once before, nearly 100.
The Cubs have played 19,054 games since the start of the Modern Era in 1901.
1,831 of them have gone into extra innings, a little less than 10 percent.
The Cubs tied 352 of those 1,831 games in.
Have you ever wondered what the average batting numbers were among all Cubs during their years with team?
Maybe not.
OK, probably not!
But I have. So I decided to figure it out.
Read on to find.