Chicago Cubs 1978

The three rarest things in 1978

Rarity	What	Who	Date	Rate	Game
78	Scored in Eight Innings	Chicago Cubs	1978-09-01	1 in 3,732 games	box score ↗
68	Eight-RBI Game	Dave Kingman	1978-05-14	1 in 1,372 games	box score ↗
53	Three-Homer Game	Dave Kingman	1978-05-14	1 in 321 games	box score ↗

Batting (39)

Player	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
IJIvan De Jesus	160	712	619	104	172	24	7	3	35	74	78	41	11	.278	.356	.354	.710
MTManny Trillo	152	615	552	53	144	17	5	4	55	50	67	0	7	.261	.320	.332	.652
Bobby Murcer	146	585	499	66	140	22	6	9	64	80	57	14	5	.281	.376	.403	.779
Bill Buckner	117	470	446	47	144	26	1	5	74	18	17	7	5	.323	.345	.419	.765
Dave Kingman	119	448	395	65	105	17	4	28	79	39	111	3	4	.266	.336	.542	.878
GGGreg Gross	124	390	347	34	92	12	7	1	39	33	19	3	1	.265	.323	.349	.672
LBLarry Biittner	120	374	343	32	88	15	1	4	50	23	37	0	1	.257	.300	.341	.641
DRDave Rader	116	348	305	29	62	13	3	3	36	34	26	1	1	.203	.281	.295	.576
SOSteve Ontiveros	82	316	276	34	67	14	4	1	22	34	33	0	2	.243	.321	.333	.654
RSRodney Scott	78	280	227	41	64	5	1	0	15	43	41	27	10	.282	.403	.313	.716
GCGene Clines	109	254	229	31	59	10	2	0	17	21	28	4	3	.258	.321	.319	.640
MVMike Vail	74	185	180	15	60	6	2	4	33	3	24	0	1	.333	.341	.456	.796
JWJerry White	59	162	136	22	37	6	0	1	10	23	16	4	3	.272	.373	.338	.711
LCLarry Cox	59	133	121	10	34	5	0	2	18	12	16	0	0	.281	.346	.372	.718
TBTim Blackwell	49	132	103	8	23	3	0	0	7	23	17	0	0	.223	.367	.252	.620
MKMick Kelleher	68	106	95	8	24	1	0	0	6	7	11	4	1	.253	.304	.263	.567
Rick Reuschel	35	89	73	5	10	2	0	0	4	4	23	1	0	.137	.190	.164	.354
HCHector Cruz	30	80	76	8	18	5	0	2	9	3	6	0	0	.237	.266	.382	.647
DLDennis Lamp	37	76	73	1	15	2	0	0	3	0	17	0	0	.205	.205	.233	.438
RBRay Burris	41	70	61	3	7	1	2	0	2	2	13	0	0	.115	.143	.197	.340
JWJoe Wallis	28	60	55	7	17	2	1	1	6	5	13	0	2	.309	.367	.436	.803
DRDave Roberts	37	57	52	4	17	3	0	2	7	2	7	0	0	.327	.352	.500	.852
Davey Johnson	24	56	49	5	15	1	1	2	6	5	9	0	0	.306	.393	.490	.883
Mike Krukow	27	51	45	4	11	5	0	0	3	2	13	0	0	.244	.271	.356	.626
STScot Thompson	19	39	36	7	15	3	0	0	2	2	4	0	0	.417	.447	.500	.947
RMRudy Meoli	47	35	29	10	3	0	1	0	2	6	4	1	0	.103	.257	.172	.430
EPEd Putman	17	29	25	2	5	0	0	0	3	4	6	0	0	.200	.310	.200	.510
WFWoodie Fryman	13	20	16	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	.062	.059	.125	.184
Bruce Sutter	64	19	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	8	0	0	.077	.200	.077	.277
Donnie Moore	71	18	15	2	4	1	0	0	4	2	6	0	0	.267	.353	.333	.686
LMLynn McGlothen	49	14	13	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.231	.286	.308	.593
Ken Holtzman	23	12	10	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	.200	.273	.300	.573
MGMike Gordon	4	9	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	.200	.556	.200	.756
PRPaul Reuschel	16	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
MSMike Sember	9	4	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.333	.500	.333	.833
DGDave Geisel	18	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
KPKarl Pagel	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
GHGuillermo Hernandez	55	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
MSManny Seoane	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–

Pitching (14)

Player	G	W–L	GS	CG	SV	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP
Rick Reuschel	35	14–15	35	9	0	235	98	92	54	115	16	242.2	3.41	1.19
DLDennis Lamp	37	7–15	36	6	0	221	96	82	56	73	16	223.2	3.30	1.24
RBRay Burris	40	7–13	32	4	1	210	112	105	79	94	15	199.0	4.75	1.45
DRDave Roberts	35	6–8	20	2	1	159	87	83	56	54	17	142.1	5.25	1.51
Mike Krukow	27	9–3	20	3	0	125	62	60	53	81	11	138.1	3.90	1.29
Donnie Moore	71	9–7	1	0	4	117	55	47	31	50	7	102.2	4.12	1.44
Bruce Sutter	64	8–10	0	0	27	82	44	35	34	106	10	98.2	3.19	1.18
LMLynn McGlothen	49	5–3	1	0	0	77	33	27	39	60	7	80.0	3.04	1.45
GHGuillermo Hernandez	54	8–2	0	0	3	57	26	25	35	38	6	59.2	3.77	1.54
WFWoodie Fryman	13	2–4	9	0	0	64	37	32	37	28	6	55.2	5.17	1.81
Ken Holtzman	23	0–3	6	0	2	61	40	36	35	36	10	53.0	6.11	1.81
PRPaul Reuschel	16	2–0	0	0	0	29	16	16	13	13	4	28.0	5.14	1.50
DGDave Geisel	18	1–0	1	0	0	27	12	11	11	15	0	23.1	4.24	1.63
MSManny Seoane	7	1–0	1	0	0	11	6	5	6	5	0	8.1	5.40	2.04