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Through Saturday, the Cubs have played 18,805 games since the Modern Era began in 1901. Only a handful of those games have been different from all that came before and after it. Among those. ....
May 7, 2021 Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning you’ll get a fresh, topical column to start your day from one of SI.com ’s MLB writers. Albert Pujols’s days as a feared slugger are long gone, just like the home runs he used to blast with regularity. With the 41-year-old posting career-worst offensive marks across the board this year and owning a slash line of .240/.289/.405 since 2017, it was time for the Angels to shut down The Machine and let him restart his Hall of Fame career elsewhere. The move was overdue given Pujols s reported insistence on being a regular fixture in the starting lineup. He hadn t been able to cut it against righties since Barack Obama was president, which feels like a lifetime ago. ....
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Billy Williams unique 4-hit game By JohnW53 on Feb 19, 2021, 4:40am CST + While batting .290/.361/.492, Williams made 2,510 hits. Thirty times, he had 4 in a game, including 8 in which he went 4 for 4. Twice, both in 1969, all 4 of his hits were for extra bases. On Wednesday, April 9, in the second game of the season, Williams smacked 2 doubles, walked, then smacked 2 more doubles, as the Cubs thumped the visiting Phillies, 11-3. It was a different story when he did it again, on Friday, Sept. 5, in the opener of a weekend series against the Pirates at Wrigley Field. .... STRANDED TWICE, CIRCLED TWICE After Steve Blass retired the first 2 Cubs, Williams doubled to center field. Ernie Banks then popped up to end the inning. ....
When no Cubs batter struck out in game By JohnW53 on Feb 4, 2021, 2:48am CST + Do you remember where you were on July 3, 2013? The Cubs were in Oakland, where they faced the Athletics in the middle game of a 3-game series. The Cubs had lost the opener the previous night, 8-7, on a 3-run homer in the bottom of the eighth. They went into the Wednesday evening rematch with a record of 36-45, mired in fourth place in the Central Division, 15.5 games behind the first-place Pirates and 11.5 in back of the third-place Reds. They led the last-place Brewers by 2.5 games. The A s (49-35) held a half-game lead over the Rangers in the AL West. ....