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Originally Posted by DumpJerry
...and with a 3-0 loss tonight, the Cubs and Astros will play a rare game tomorrow:
Two one hundred loss teams facing each other. Someone told me this would be the first time in MLB history. Does anyone know if this is true?
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It's not, but it's also not a common occurrence. It's actually been 50 years this week, as the last game before tomorrow's with a pair of 100-game losers was September 30, 1962 when the Mets (40-120... expansion teams) played the, you guessed it, Cubs (59-103) in front of a robust crowd of 4,000 people at Wrigley Field.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...96209300.shtml
I would like to point out that that 103-loss Cubs team now had 3 future Hall of Fame players in the middle of their lineup. Unbelievable.