Last Friday, Sept. 2, was the 50th anniversary of Milt Pappas' no-hitter against the Padres a no-hitter that has been called "The Perfect Game That Wasn't."
Pappas retired 26 batters in a row.
After perusing my recent post about games that the Cubs won a strikeout/throwout doubleplay, constant reader Ernaga commented, in part, "how many Cubs losses have ended either by a pick-off at.
There is a new wrestling champion in the Northern Buckeye Conference. Lake squeezed by Elmwood, 133-132, to win the Northern Buckeye Conference wrestling championship at Elmwood High School.
Starting in 1901, the first year of the Modern Era, the Cubs have played 18,855 regular-season games.
They have won 9,467 of them.
In more than one third of those wins, 3,367, they scored between.