You know by now that the Chicago Cubs have twice won ten games in a row this season, and have now also lost ten games in a row. It’s the kind of absurd thing that doesn’t happen too often in a baseball season, and you know that without even having to plumb the depths of the historical record.
According to Elias, it has in fact happened only one other time in baseball history (and the Cubs have pulled it off before the end of May!). The 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers had a ten-game winning streak in June of that year, and another in July (that one actually reached eleven). That same club lost eleven games in a row early in September, and did so as part of a stretch where they lost 16 of 17. Yowsa.
The thing about that 2017 Dodgers club, though, is that they also had another nine-game winning streak, and THREE six-game winning streaks. By the time that losing streak rolled around, they’d built such a gargantuan lead in the AL West that, at the conclusion of losing 16 of 17, the Dodgers’ lead in the division had shrunk all the way … to single digits. Yeah. They were still 9.0 games up.
In other words, the 2017 Dodgers were a monster of a team. They would go on to win 104 games, dominate in the NLDS, dominate in the NLCS, and then take the trash-can-banging Astros to seven games in the World Series.
I would, uh, take all that for the 2026 Chicago Cubs. History can repeat for these two clubs, the only ones to have two ten-game winning streaks and a ten-game losing streak in the same season, and I’d be a happy camper.
I should point out that if we zoom out a bit and away from the streaks, specifically, then there have been three other instances of teams having both a 20-3 stretch and a 2-14 stretch in the same season, per Mike Gianella. One of those was that same 2017 Dodgers club that we’d love the Cubs to emulate. The other two were the 1987 Brewers, who finished 91-71 (missing the postseason in the pre-Wild Card days), and the 1930 Cardinals, who finished 92-62 (losing in the World Series). So in all cases, the team won 90+ games, and 2 of 3 reached the World Series. Encouraging? Maybe?
Mostly I’m just having fun here, because the things that some 1930s Cardinals team did – or even a much more recent Dodgers club – don’t actually have any direct bearing on the 2026 Chicago Cubs. They are just factoids. Interesting little bits of trivia at a time when we’re desperate to feel anything but PAIN.
But let me offer you the one small bit of real bearing that does apply: even very good teams can lose 10+ games in a row, or even 14 of 16.
Am I saying the 2026 Chicago Cubs are a “very good team”? I am not. Not yet, anyway. I’m saying only that, in the history of this sport, some teams have done what this year’s Cubs have done and nevertheless wound up having a successful season. There’s nothing in the rulebook against it.
Now, then. I suppose if the Cubs go out and losing a bunch more games in a row, then they probably are on a statistical island from where there won’t be too many fun historical factoids to which to point. Probably better win tonight, just to be safe.
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