#60 Done

#60 Done: See a game at Wrigley Field.

Didn’t think this one was going to happen, but after supporting my Giants for the last five years, I owed it to Sonia to help celebrate her team. Lucky for us, we picked a good one. And historic for the following reasons.

• This was the 1,453rd game in postseason history. It was the first in which a team — any team — hit six home runs in one game.

• Before this game, no team had ever even had five different players hit a home run in the same postseason game. The Cubs had six.

• Even more incredibly, it was their 1-2-3-4-5-6 hitters who hit those home runs. According to ESPN Stats and Info, there have only been two REGULAR-SEASON season games in the entire live-ball era in which any team’s 1-2-3-4-5-6 hitters homered. The 1954 New York Giants did it. And the Mets’ 1-through-7 hitters all homered in a game in Philadelphia two months ago. That’s it.

• Three of those home runs came from players aged 23 years old and younger — Kris Bryant, Jorge Soler and Schwarber. It was the first time in postseason history that three hitters that young homered in the same game.

• Four of those home runs came from players aged 25 and younger — those three, plus 25-year-old Starlin Castro. It was also the first time in postseason history that four players that young homered in the same game. Anthony Rizzo would have made it five, if he hadn’t turned 26 a mere nine weeks ago. Then again, it was also the first time five players aged 26 and under homered in a postseason game. So there’s that.

• The Cardinals hadn’t allowed five home runs in a postseason game since Game 4 of the 1928 World Series, when Babe Ruth hit three, Lou Gehrig hit one and Cedric Durst hit the fifth. On this night, even Ruth and Gehrig got drummed out of the record books.

• The Cardinals also scored six runs — in a game started by Arrieta — and lost. They were working on a 54-game winning streak, counting regular season and postseason, in games in which they scored six runs or more. So much for that.

• In one more non-home-run tidbit, 23-year-old Cubs outfielder Soler came to bat five times and reached base five times — meaning he has now reached base in the first nine postseason plate appearances of his life. He’s nearly doubled the old record of five, held by Johnny Damon. But of course, “he still could,” said Coghlan. “He still hasn’t made an out, so it’s still going.”