Cubs-D'Backs series by the numbers
Here's a look at some interesting numbers from the Cubs-Diamondbacks series:
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Consecutive months that Cubs relief pitcher Carlos Marmol has surrendered 2 runs during that month: covering 16½ innings in August, 14½ innings in September, and 1 inning in October (seventh inning of Game 1).
Times Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly issued more than 1 walk per inning in his 34 regular-season appearances. Lilly walked four in 3½ innings Thursday night.
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Times Ted Lilly gave up 6 earned runs in a game during his 34 starts in 2007, both in 5 innings. He surrendered 6 earned runs in 3½ innings Thursday.
1
Times in 34 regular-season starts that Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano threw fewer than the 85 pitches he tossed in Game 1. In a July 18 rout of San Francisco, he threw 80 pitches in 5 innings. His average was 109 pitches per start.
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Cumulative innings that the Cubs have led through the first two games. The Cubs took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second Thursday, and held it until two outs in the bottom of the second.
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Of the 13 other Cubs who played in Augie Ojeda's first game as a major-leaguer in 2000, the number who are still in the big leagues: Sammy Sosa and Jon Lieber. But, like Ojeda, both were out of the big leagues for extended time -- Lieber in 2003 and Sosa in 2006. Ojeda did not play a major-league game in 2005 or '06.
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Home runs by the Chicago Cubs during the 1932 World Series. That figure includes a 3-run shot by Frank Demaree, the last rookie to hit a postseason homer for the Cubs before Geovany Soto's 2-run blast Thursday.
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Record for Game 3 Cubs starting pitcher Rich Hill in his first 3 and last 3 decisions of 2007. He went 5-8 in between, for an overall mark of 11-8.
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Percentage of runs in Game 2 that stemmed from walks: 4 of the Diamondbacks' 8 runs, and 2 of the Cubs' 4 runs.
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Days between 3-run home runs for the Diamondbacks' Chris Young against the Cubs. Before his Game 2 home run, Young blasted a 3-run shot off Jason Marquis on Aug. 26. Of his 32 regular-season homers, only 1 other came with two men on base.
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Doubles for Daryle Ward during the regular season, despite having only 110 at bats, easily the highest ratio (one in every 8½ at bats) on the Cubs. Ward collected a 2-run pinch double in the sixth inning of Game 2.
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Percentage increase in the number of pitches in Game 2, compared to Game 1 (335, or 98 more than the 237 in Game 1).
Sources: Retrosheet.org, ESPN.com