While watching the Diamondbacks eviscerate the Cubs 9-0 Wednesday evening, I was reminded of a game from a long-ago Cubs playoff season, 1984.
The ‘84 Cubs were on a great run of 15 wins in 19 games when Dwight Gooden one-hit them at Shea Stadium, the only hit an infield single by about the last person you’d expect to have an infield single, Keith Moreland. To complete the comparison, the Cubs’ starter that night, the same as their starter Wednesday in Phoenix, was a former Phillie (Dick Ruthven).
The good news, perhaps, for this year’s Cubs, likely also headed to the postseason (and to a better result than 1984, let’s hope), is that the 1984 Cubs won five of their next seven after that one-hitter.