Even though we had the Cubs’ schedule several hours ahead of the official reveal on MLB Network, some of our suppositions about start times were proven wrong. Perhaps the most jarring of those is that each of their six Friday home games will be played at night for the first time in franchise history. For more context, that is triple the number of regular-season Friday night home games that have been played in club history.
Day games were a necessity until late in the 1988 season, what with the whole absence of lights at Wrigley Field and all.