Last fall, I wrote this series about the highest-scoring games in Cubs history.
The game you’re going to read about here didn’t make it into that list — because while the Cubs scored 20 runs, their opponent, the Dodgers, managed just one.
Since 1900, the Cubs have scored 20 or more runs in a game just 15 times. Here’s the entire list:
And so you are reading about this because today is the 20th anniversary of the last time the Cubs scored 20 runs in a game, May 5, 2001 at Wrigley Field against the Dodgers.