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Dave23

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Cubs History
« Reply #1215 on: August 12, 2020, 07:43:53 pm »
I will never, ever get tired of watching that Bote slam. Can you imagine how he was feeling as he circled the bases?
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Bennett

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« Reply #1216 on: August 13, 2020, 01:17:37 am »
I will never, ever get tired of watching that Bote slam. Can you imagine how he was feeling as he circled the bases?

I'd forgotten that the slam followed an infield hit and two HBPs.

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« Reply #1217 on: August 13, 2020, 09:49:50 am »
I'd forgotten that the slam followed an infield hit and two HBPs.

Back in 1995, the Cubs had a very similar finish against the Phillies.  It had been looking like a routine win until the Phillies got three runs in the top of the ninth.  Then, down to their last out, someone reached on an error, then someone was hit by a pitch, then Shawon Dunston came up and hit a walk-off three-run homer to win the game.  It was crazy.

I remember Chuck McElroy pitching in the game but can't remember which team he pitched on.  (Philadelphia announcer Harry Kalas loved to say his name.)

It was an amazing finish but doesn't seem to be famous these days.  In 1995 it seemed like the Cubs were always walking off with home runs; Sosa, but also even Terry Shumpert did it.

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« Reply #1218 on: August 13, 2020, 11:52:19 am »
I remember the Shumpert walkoff...

Tuffy

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« Reply #1219 on: August 15, 2020, 11:40:50 pm »
The Shumpert game was actually in 1996, a month after Sammy hit two walkoff homers in three days:



But in '95 there were some epic games.  Late in the year, the Cubs beat Houston and made something like six comebacks in the same game, winning 11-10 or 12-11 or something like that, and came all the way back to clinch a winning record for the season after being well below .500 for a while.

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« Reply #1220 on: August 16, 2020, 10:34:45 am »
I as at that game, and it was the only time in my life I got to sit in one of the luxury boxes behind third base.  Being in purchasing, I got a lot of free tickets to games, but that was the only time someone gave me one of those.  It was kind of like sitting in the upper deck grandstand, but with outstanding food.

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« Reply #1221 on: August 16, 2020, 04:38:59 pm »
Reminder

MLB Network's interesting series "The Sounds Of Baseball" with Bob Costas and Tom Verducci finally features Harry Caray - Sunday, August 16, 7:00 P.M.

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« Reply #1222 on: September 03, 2020, 11:08:56 am »
I love Fergie Jenkins, and he had a great season in '71, but that season should have been Seaver's 4th Cy Young...

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« Reply #1223 on: September 13, 2020, 01:14:10 am »
Cubs Quiz:

Who was this former Cubs position player?

He played one-half of a season with the Cubs from April thru June and appeared only as a pinch-hitter, with 26 PAs and NEVER played in the field that season.

Playing with another club, the most famous AB of his career was a strikeout in the World Series.

Playing with yet another club, he got a World Series ring in a season when he did not get a hit that season.

Extra Credit:  he was in 27 games with the Cubs but had 26 PAs and, of course, never played in the field.  What happened in game 27?

JeffH

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« Reply #1224 on: September 13, 2020, 11:52:39 am »
Harry Bright.

Struck out by Koufax to break the WS game K record.

1960 Pirates.

He entered the game as a pinch runner.

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« Reply #1225 on: September 13, 2020, 12:14:27 pm »
Very good, Jeff.

On last question, Bright was announced as a pinch-hitter but, after a pitching change, was pinch hit for by George Altman.

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1226 on: September 13, 2020, 01:50:01 pm »
Good one!

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« Reply #1227 on: September 13, 2020, 02:24:51 pm »
Growing up my favorite Sacramento Solons were Al Heist and Harry Bright.  CF and 3b, batting 3 and 4.  Both very popular, so much so that Bright was brought back to manage.  I remember that Heist made it to the Cubs, I forgot that Bright did so.

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1228 on: September 13, 2020, 06:54:25 pm »
I once had this Harry Bright 1965 Topps baseball card, and it looks like for the Cubs, at least, he didn't play any of the three positions Topps thought he would be playing:


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« Reply #1229 on: September 13, 2020, 07:33:10 pm »
Bright caught 11 games in his career.

Schwarber has more of a claim to a “C” on his cards than Bright.