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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:
Longest saves by Cubs pitchers By JohnW53 on Apr 18, 2021, 7:04am CDT +
On April 8, Craig Kimbrel recorded his 350th career save his first that required 5 outs.
Since then, when the Cubs have had a lead after 6 innings, several fans have half-jokingly suggested Kimbrel be brought in for a 3-inning save.
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2,901 saves.
(Saves became an official statistic only in 1969, but the rules for awarding a save were applied retroactively to earlier seasons.)
354 different pitchers are credited with those saves, from Lee Smith, with 180, to 108 with exactly 1, most recently Andrew Chafin last season.
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In just
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Only
6 of the 327 came in the last decade. There were 8 such games in 2000-09, after 22 in 1990-99.
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Joe Musgrove authored the first no-hitter in the San Diego Padres 53-season history on Friday after blanking the Texas Rangers 3-0 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
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Joe Musgrove does it! The kid from San Diego has thrown the first no-hitter in @Padres history! How can you not be romantic about baseball?! pic.twitter.com/PTmV2Ix0Wr
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.@ItsbuccnJoe59 tosses the first no-hitter of 2021! pic.twitter.com/wSSRbtUxHh
Musgrove struck out 10 batters over his nine shutout frames. He threw 112 pitches and allowed just one base-runner after hitting outfielder Joey Gallo with a pitch in the bottom of the fourth inning.
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