Cubs who led NL in pitching categories, Part 1 By JohnW53 on May 11, 2021, 6:38am CDT +
431 times, an average of more than 3 per season.
They have led in at least 1 of the 36 categories shown at Baseball-Reference.com in
110 of the 120 seasons. Three of the 10 in which they had no leaders have come in the past 20 seasons: 2001, 2009 and 2014.
In 1992, a Cub led in
16 categories; in every one, the leader was Greg Maddux.
In 1938, they led in
18, with Bill Lee on top in 14.
And in 1918, they were first in
21, including 16 by Hippo Vaughn.
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The Cubs won the pennant in the latter 2 seasons. They led in 14, 13 and 12 categories in 3 other title years: 1945, 1932 and 1929.
No-hitters that went fewer than 9 innings
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Per the Elias Sports Bureau, a no-hitter needs to be at least nine innings in order to be official. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t seen performances of fewer than nine innings where a pitcher completed a game due to weather, or games that were scheduled to be shorter that were hitless.
There have been 26 such performances on record (since 1901), including Madison Bumgarner’s seven-inning outing against the Braves in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday.
Here’s a look at all 26 of those games.