MLB teams began installing lights for night games in the 1930s and 1940s and Cubs owner P.K. Now, here’s a bit of history explaining how and why the Cubs got to this point regarding night games at Wrigley Field. Thus over that time period, not a small sample size, the Cubs are 21 percentage points better at night than during the day. In their 1,869 regular season day games at Wrigley since 1988, they are 973-896, which is a. The Cubs have played 810 regular season night games at Wrigley since the first in 1988 and have gone 437-373 in those games, a. (Many thanks to BCBer JohnW53 for sending over these numbers!) Here are some numbers to back up that claim. This, I believe, puts the Cubs at a significant competitive disadvantage and has done so for years. The second was a makeup of a rained-out game in July and, though I never heard this stated publicly, I assume the council also granted approval.ģ6 games is two-thirds of the MLB average for home night games. The first Friday night game was requested by the Cubs due to a scheduled road night game in New York the previous day and the City Council granted the request.
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The Saturday and Sunday dates were at the request of national TV networks.
the Cardinals) and three Sundays (April 18 vs. the Cardinals), two Saturdays (June 12 and July 10, both vs. the Marlins and September 24, night half of a doubleheader vs. The Cubs wound up playing 36 night games at Wrigley in 2021, including two Fridays (June 18 vs. The most 2021 home night games for any ballpark was 63, in Atlanta’s Truist Park the fewest outside Wrigley was 40, in Comerica Park in Detroit. That’s pretty much been the average for several decades. In 2021 the average number of home night games per team was 54 (regardless of whether the Cubs’ count is included or not). If they want more concerts - and in 2019 there were 10 - they have to give up one night game for each concert date.
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The Cubs are currently limited to 35 regular season night games per year by city ordinance, plus up to eight night games added by the request of national TV networks, plus four concert dates, for a maximum of 47 night events per year. There have been many postseason night games at Wrigley and the team hosted the 1990 All-Star Game, the latter awarded only after lights were approved. That means you’d have to be at least in your early 40s to have any clear memory of Wrigley without lights.Īs you surely know, the first scheduled Wrigley night game Augwas rained out after three and a half innings and so the first official night game took place the next night against the Mets, the Cubs winning 6-4. “Although he had not appeared in the majors since 2019, Jackson was still looking for another opportunity.Night baseball has been played at Wrigley Field since 1988, 34 seasons’ worth.
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