Tuesday’s game at Wrigley Field featured the Cubs scoring 20 runs. That makes 2023 the second consecutive year the Cubs have had a 20-run game, after the 21-0 shutout of the Pirates in April 2022.
In 1963, the Cubs and Giants wound up hitting baseballs all over Wrigley Field — but primarily in the eighth inning.
The Giants led 6-5 going into the eighth. Lindy McDaniel — who had singlehandedly defeated the Giants at Wrigley two months earlier — entered in relief.
On this August day he wasn’t as good. Three singles in the first four hitters McDaniel faced scored a run to make it 7-5, and McDaniel was removed for Tom Baker, who was making his MLB debut.