This came after Greenwald called Giants first baseman Will Clark's pennant clinching hit off of Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Mitch Williams in the bottom of the eighth inning:

Smith finished second in MVP balloting to Andre Dawson, who had played on the last-place Chicago Cubs, largely because Smith and teammate Jack Clark split the first-place vote.

They had a young star in the likes of Jack Clark, along with veteran first baseman Willie McCovey, second baseman Bill Madlock ( whom the Giants had acquired from the Chicago Cubs ,) shortstops Johnnie LeMaster and Roger Metzger, and third baseman Darrell Evans.

Richard Clark Ellsworth ( born March 22, 1940 in Lusk, Wyoming ) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Chicago Cubs ( 1958, 1960 – 66 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1967 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1968 – 69 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1969 – 70 ) and Milwaukee Brewers ( 1970 – 71 ).

Clark made his major league debut on September 3, 2000, as a pinch hitter against the Montreal Expos and he recorded his first big league hit on September 13 against Felix Heredia of the Chicago Cubs.

It is located at Addison and Clark Streets across from Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs.

The Chicago Cubs retired numbers are commemorated on pinstriped flags flying from the foul poles at Wrigley Field, with the exception of Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodgers player whose number 42 was retired for all clubs.

As a result, the Giants played more day games than any Major League Baseball team except the Chicago Cubs, whose ballpark, Wrigley Field, did not have lights installed until 1988.

Wrigley also owned the Chicago Cubs, whose home ( Wrigley Field ) is also named after him.

At the time, he owned Santa Catalina Island, and the Cubs were holding their spring training in that island's city of Avalon ( whose ballfield was located on Avalon Canyon Road and also informally known as " Wrigley Field ").

These players include Andy Pafko ( who, coincidentally, played in the 1945 World Series as a Cub ), Gene Baker, Smoky Burgess, Don Hoak, Dale Long, Lou Brock ( whose first title was in after a mid-season trade to the St. Louis Cardinals ), Lou Johnson, Jim Brewer, Moe Drabowsky, Don Cardwell, Ken Holtzman, Billy North, Fred Norman, Bill Madlock, Manny Trillo, Greg Gross, Rick Monday, Burt Hooton, Bruce Sutter, Willie Hernández, Joe Niekro, Dennis Eckersley, Joe Carter, Greg Maddux, Joe Girardi ( as both a player and a manager ), José Vizcaíno, Glenallen Hill ( after his second stint with the Cubs ; his title came in after a mid-season trade ), Luis Gonzalez, Mike Morgan, Mark Grace, Mark Bellhorn, Bill Mueller, Scott Eyre ( whose title came in after he been traded from the Cubs during the season ), Tom Gordon, Matt Stairs, Jamie Moyer, in, Mark DeRosa and Mike Fontenot — the former of whom had been traded the offseason before, the latter having been traded that midseason, and in, Ryan Theriot who was traded the previous season.

After five seasons of sharing the Twin Cities with another Western League club in Minneapolis, Comiskey and his colleagues arranged to share Chicago with the National League, whose club ( the Chicago Cubs today ) played on the West Side.

While with the Cubs, Durocher encountered a difficult dilemma in regards to the Cubs aging superstar, Ernie Banks, whose injured knees made him a liability but whose legendary status made benching him impossible.

It was first the home of the Chicago entry of the Players League of 1890 ( whose roster included Charles Comiskey ), and then was the home of the National League team now called the Chicago Cubs during parts of 1891 – 1893.

The Cubs won the 2007 National League Central division, thanks in large part to Ramírez, whose 101 RBIs led the team.

Thus, his name is often invoked when discussing similar players, such as Brian Esposito, whose appearance came with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2007, or a fellow University of North Carolina graduate Adam Greenberg, whose lone MLB appearance with the Chicago Cubs in 2005 ended with him being hit by a pitch.

By the early 1910s the wooden ballpark was showing its age, in large part due to neglect by Charles Murphy, the unpopular owner of the Cubs ( one of whose alternate, media-driven nicknames was the unflattering " Murphy's Spuds ").

The 1916 Cubs were one of the few teams in history, and the most recent until 1999, to have three players whose last names begin with " Z ": Zeider, Zwilling, and Heinie Zimmerman.

The Cubs were managed by Leo Durocher, whose Giants had done likewise to the Dodgers in 1951, while the Mets were managed by old Dodgers favorite Gil Hodges.

Lonnie ( Lon ) Warneke ( March 28, 1909 – June 23, 1976 ) ( pronounced WARN-a-key ), nicknamed the " The Arkansas Hummingbird ," was a Major League Baseball player, Major League umpire, county judge, U. S. military serviceman, and businessman from Montgomery County, Arkansas, whose career won-loss record as a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs ( 1930 – 36, 1942 – 43, 1945 ) and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1937 – 1942 ) was 192 – 121.

" That same day first baseman Charlie Grimm took over as the Cubs ' manager, replacing player-manager Rogers Hornsby, whose record was 53 – 46 ; the Cubs were in second place, five games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

After taking the first two games at home against the Cubs, in the National League Division Series, they took the series to Wrigley Field, where they completed their sweep, earning their first berth in the National League Championship Series since 2001.

The most recent player credited with a " straight " steal of home was Pete Kozma of the St. Louis Cardinals who stole home against the Chicago Cubs on September 21, 2012.

For Hurricane Ike in 2008, Selig mandated that the Astros play two home games against the Chicago Cubs in his hometown of Milwaukee despite proximity to the visiting Cubs.

After losing a dismal 103 games in 1966, the Cubs brought home consecutive winning records in ' 67 and ' 68, marking the first time a Cub team had accomplished that feat in over two decades.

In early August the Cubs swept the Mets in a 4-game home series that further distanced them from the pack.

It was the second game of a double header and the Cubs had won the first game in part due to a three run home run by Moreland.

The confusion may stem from the fact that Major League Baseball did decide that, should the Cubs make it to the World Series, the American League winner would have home field advantage unless the Cubs hosted home games at an alternate site since the Cubs home field of Wrigley Field did not yet have lights.

Rumor was the Cubs could hold home games across town at Comiskey Park, home of the American League's Chicago White Sox.

Rather than hold any games in the cross town rival Sox Park, the Cubs made arrangements with the August A. Busch, owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, to use Busch Stadium in St. Louis as the Cubs " home field " for the World Series.

After being beaten in Game 3 7 – 1, the Cubs lost Game 4 when Smith, with the game tied 5 – 5, allowed a game-winning home run to Garvey in the bottom of the ninth inning.

After splitting the first two games at home, the Cubs headed to the Bay Area, where despite holding a lead at some point in each of the next three games, bullpen meltdowns and managerial blunders ultimately led to three straight losses.

Chicago halted St. Louis ' run to the playoffs by taking 4 of 5 games from the Cardinals at Wrigley Field in early September, after which the hapless Cubs finally won their first division title in 14 years.

Greenberg hit the only two homers by the Tigers — one in Game Two, where he batted in three runs in a 4 – 1 win ; the other — a two-run job — tied the game in the eighth inning of Game Six, making the score 8 – 8, but the Cubs won that game with a run in the bottom of the 12th.

Sammy Sosa had three 60 + home run seasons with the Cubs (' 98, ' 99, & ' 01 )

At the same time, the Chicago Cubs awarded Sosa's # 21 to new pitcher Jason Marquis, despite the fact that it was formerly worn by Sosa, who coincidentally later hit his 600th home run against Marquis.

This caused some concern, due to Sosa's accomplishments with the Cubs, including his status as the Cubs'all-time home run leader.

On June 20, 2007, Sosa hit a home run off of Jason Marquis during an inter-league game against the Chicago Cubs.

The home run was the first one that Sosa had recorded against the Cubs, and as a result he has hit a home run against every active MLB team.

Tim Lincecum held the Chicago Cubs to two hits through eight innings on August 21, but the team scored only one run, losing to the Cubs by a score of 5 – 1.

On June 20, Sammy Sosa hit his 600th career home run against the Chicago Cubs at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

Dillinger had always been a fan of the Chicago Cubs, and instead of lying low like many criminals on the run, he continued to attend Cubs games at Wrigley Field during the months of June and July 1934.

On June 14 in Cincinnati, Rose singled in the first inning off Cubs pitcher Dave Roberts ; Rose would proceed to get a hit in every game he played until August 1, making a run at Joe DiMaggio ’ s record 56-game hitting streak, which had stood virtually unchallenged for 37 years.

In the " double no-hitter " between Fred Toney of the Reds and Hippo Vaughn of the Chicago Cubs, Thorpe drove in the winning run in the 10th inning.

On September 25, 2006, Griffey hit his 27th home run of the season against Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Scott Eyre to tie Reggie Jackson for tenth on the all time home run list.

* On September 18, 1971, Rick Wise, pitching for the Phillies against the Cubs, gave up a home run to the leadoff batter in the second inning, Frank Fernandez.

Then a future Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, first baseman Ernie Banks, singled to bring home Williams and Popovich and bring the Cubs within a run.

That set it up for Cubs right fielder Jim Hickman, who hit a two-run walk-off home run to win the game, 7 – 6.

During his 14-season run with the Cubs, Santo hit 337 home runs, then the eighth most by a National League right-handed hitter ; his 1, 071 career walks with the Cubs remain the team record for a right-handed hitter.