Talk about a crazy year: With Anthony Rizzo's heroic eighth-inning homer on Thursday night, it marked the fifth time this season that a Cub position player posted a WPA above .700. By comparison, it had only happened six times for the Cubs in the past 11 years. Not only that, but there have only been eight times since WPA has been tracked in which a team had five above-.700 WPA games in a single season, and there have been only two teams to pull off the feat twice: the Rockies in 2000 and 2014; and the Cubs, who also had five above-.
Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 101
