Moises Ballesteros
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Yeah, no, the two out hits was a real thing.
I think another thing that in 2016 was a very real thing was the add-on runs, which turned into a year of dominant, dominant run differential.
The Cubs had, in baseball, from the beginning, the best run differential.
The difference is the Cubs were blowing teams out back then.
They didn't need the late heroics.
As a matter of fact, the Cubs that year had a 252-run differential.
808 runs allowed.
That's disturbing.
It was massive.
So I'm a little careful not to do the exact comp to that.
And the Cubs have had some nice add-on run moments, but the stretch that they are existing in right now is pretty unique.
I thought about, because it came up last night, that the 14th straight win at Wrigley Field, they've matched what they did in the year 2008 under Lou Piniella, Lou Piniella's second trip to the playoffs.
where you had DeRosa and Dee Lee and Alfonso Soriano, my guy Ramos Ramirez, Giovanni Soto was on that team, Kosuke Fukudome, your guy Ryan Terrio.
Yeah, Lil' Fontenot was on that team as well, and they were pretty relentless with a nice mix of contact and power on that team.
So I probably lean a little bit more towards the 2008 Cubs, which was an