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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.
Sunday win was Cubs first of kind since 1905! By JohnW53 on May 24, 2021, 8:31am CDT +
1 extra-inning game in the entire Modern Era in which they made no more than
3 hits!
The lone previous such game was on
Sept. 3, 1905, when the Cubs beat the Pirates, 1-0, in 11 innings, in Game 1 of a doubleheader at the West Side Grounds in Chicago.
Doc Casey, the Cubs 35-year-old third baseman, smacked a triple with 1 out in the 11th. The Pirates played the infield in and Solly Hofman grounded to the first baseman, but his throw home was off line and Casey scored.
The Cubs had played
Rarity: Cubs with 4 and 3 hits, just 1 run scored By JohnW53 on May 13, 2021, 9:58am CDT +
Willson Contreras had 4 hits for the Cubs and Joc Pederson had 3.
That made it only the Cubs
fourth game in the entire Modern Era, 1901-2021, in which one of their players had
4 or more hits, another had at least
3, yet the Cubs scored no more than
1 run.
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MEMORABLE YEAR
The first was way back on Aug. 22, 1908, when the Cubs lost at home to the Doves, today s Braves, 3-1, in 15 innings.
The Cubs made 12 hits in that game, including 4 by Joe Tinker and 3 by Del Howard. Solly Hofman added 2.
Previous anniversaries of Cubs first league game By JohnW53 on May 7, 2021, 4:43am CDT +
The Cubs are scheduled to host the Pirates today, May 7 the
150th anniversary of their first league game, also played at home: their National Association debut, a victory over the Cleveland Forest Citys.
After 3 innings at the Union Grounds, the White Stockings, as they were known then, led, 14-1. But they barely hung on to win, 14-12.
I described that game in detail in a previous post.
Then I wondered how the Cubs had fared on other significant anniversaries of that historic win.
Here is what I found: