Cubs achieve rare feat with third walk-off home run in last five games
Willson Contreras was Saturday's hero
By
Dayn Perry
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The Cubs on Saturday outlasted the Brewers in 15 innings (CHC 2, MIL 1) and in doing so moved back into first place in the NL Central by a single game. The hero in this one was catcher Willson Contreras, who put one onto Waveland Avenue to snap Milwaukee's seven game win streak:
Our third walk-off home run in five games!#EverybodyIn pic.twitter.com/A8v8WIjwU8
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) May 11, 2019
Like the caption says, it's the team's third walk-off homer in their last five contests. On Wednesday, it was Jason Heyward sinking the Marlins with an 11th-inning bomb, and on Tuesday Kris Bryant's three-run shot in the ninth also sank Miami. As it turns out, all of that puts the Cubs in rarified air:
This is the 12th time in MLB history a team has had three walkoff home runs in a five-game span, and the first time ever for the Cubs.
— Stats By STATS (@StatsBySTATS) May 11, 2019
The last team to do it was the Blue Jays in July 2017. https://t.co/HxugarGUrZ
Suffice it to say, that's lethal levels of fun for the hometown rooters.
Remember the Cubs' 1-6 start to the season? They've gone 22-8 since then, and for the moment their plus-51 run differential is tops in the NL.
