The Chicago Cubs’ comeback win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday wasn’t just thrilling for fans, as it also put the team in some very unique company.
The Cubs trailed 10-3 heading into the seventh inning of the game, but thanks to some incredible heroics, they scored 11 unanswered runs to capture a 14-10 victory and a series sweep over the Pirates in Pittsburgh.
Christian Bethancourt went 3-for-5 with a double, a home run and seven RBI’s, while Pete Crow-Armstrong went 4-for-4 with four runs scored in the winning effort.
The numbers behind the comeback were perhaps just as impressive as the run-scoring barrage itself.
According to MLB.com’s Jay Cuda, teams were 1,192-0 in the last seven years in games they’d led by seven or more runs heading into the seventh inning, with the Pirates snapping that streak.
According to ESPN’s Sarah Langs, the Cubs’ 73 runs in their last seven games in their most in a seven-game span in the last 63 years, and is just the fourth time they’ve achieved that feat since 1900.
According to ESPN’s Jesse Rogers, the Cubs became the first team in the last five seasons to win a game they had been trailing by seven or more runs and to lose a game they’d been winning by seven or more runs in a single season.
The Cubs, now 5-1 on their road trip, will prepare for a series against the Washington Nationals to wrap things up. That series will get underway on Friday.