33
Total innings of baseball played Tuesday. Quite impressive, huh? But it’s not a city record. On June 21, 1961, both the Cubs and White Sox played doubleheaders at home for 36 total innings.
95,223
Total attendance for the three games–23,943 at the Sox game and 31,990 at Wrigley for Game 1 and 39,290 at Game 2.
607
Minutes of baseball played. The 15-inning game went 4:47 (287 minutes), Game 2 went 2:39 (159) and the Sox played in 2:41 (161).
72
Different players who saw action. The Cubs and Cardinals used 42 players in Game 1, an additional four played in Game 2 and the Sox and Red Sox used 26 players.
217
Total at-bats by those 72 players–98 for the Cubs-Cards in Game 1, 61 in Game 2, and 58 at U.S. Cellular Field.
1,023
Pitches thrown by the four teams in the three games. The Cubs opener featured 477 pitches, Game 2 had 275 and the Sox-Red Sox had 271 combined. Of those 1,023 pitches, 618 were strikes (60.4 percent).
58
Speaking of strikes, the 19 pitchers to see action on Wednesday struck out 58 batters. They combined to walk 21 batters.
12
Combined at-bats by the league’s top hitters entering play Wednesday: NL leader Albert Pujols had nine and AL leader Bill Mueller had three. Both went hitless with Pujols’ average falling from .366 to .361 while Mueller’s fell from .323 to .321.
