The red-hot Chicago Cubs are ending August on a historic tear.
, the Cubs have won 10 of their last 13 games. They've moved three games over .500 and have risen to second place in the NL Central, 10 games back of the
Besides that, the Cubs have scored at least six runs in seven of their last eight games, reaching double-digits four times. Prior to that, they'd topped 10 runs only four timesThe 80 runs are the club's most in an eight-game stretch since 1935, when Chicago crossed home plate 84 times from Sept. 11 to Sept. 18. The only other seasons where the Cubs had at least 80 runs during an eight-game period came in 1929 and 1930, when MLB's run-scoring levels were historically high.
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