{"id":17305,"date":"2021-06-13T01:01:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T07:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17305"},"modified":"2021-05-09T10:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T16:09:47","slug":"by-the-numbers-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/by-the-numbers-51\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 51"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 1929, uniform numbers appeared on the back of baseball jerseys for the first time, thanks to the Indians and the Yankees.\u00a0 By 1937, numbers finally appeared across all uniforms, both home and away, across both major leagues.\u00a0 Since that time, 81 distinct numbers have been worn by members of the White Sox, while the Cubs boast 76.<\/p>\n

Today, we continue our look at those players, picking our favorite, if not the best, player to wear each uniform number for both Chicago teams with #51.\u00a0 44 different players have donned #51 while playing in Chicago, 20 for the White Sox and 24 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Juan Cruz, wearing #51, made his big league debut for the Cubs on August 21,\u00a02001, against the\u00a0Brewers.\u00a0 He went 3\u20131 with a 3.22 ERA in his first 8 starts, and recorded his first two major league hits on October 2.\u00a0 Cruz went 3\u201311 with a 3.98 ERA in 45 games in\u00a02002, picking up his first career\u00a0save.\u00a0 He got off to a good start in 2003, striking out 6\u00a0consecutive Mets on Opening Day, becoming only the second Cubs reliever to achieve the feat.\u00a0 Things went a bit downhill from there, finishing the year 2\u20137 with a 6.05 ERA while making 6 starts, despite being sent back down to\u00a0Iowa\u00a0in June.\u00a0 He threw one scoreless inning during the NLDS against the Braves.\u00a0 That would end up being his final Cub appearance, as he was traded to those same Braves the following March.<\/p>\n

Dane Dunning was acquired by the White Sox as part of the return for Adam Eaton in 2016.\u00a0 He made his major league debut in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, going 2-0 in 7 starts with a 3.97 ERA.\u00a0 He started Game 3 of the Wild Card series against the A’s, getting pulled after 2\/3rds of an inning as the White Sox were eliminated.\u00a0 That was his final White Sox appearance, as he was traded to the Rangers in exchange for Lance Lynn this past December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1929, uniform numbers appeared on the back of baseball jerseys for the first time, thanks to the Indians and the Yankees.\u00a0 By 1937, numbers finally appeared across all uniforms, both home and away, across both major leagues.\u00a0 Since that time, 81 distinct numbers have been worn by members of the White Sox, while the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[123,2473,125,121,120,7033,115,8964,9100,261,1646,111,49,5569,51],"class_list":["post-17305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-adam-eaton","tag-braves","tag-brewers","tag-cubs","tag-dane-dunning","tag-indians","tag-juan-cruz","tag-lance-lynn","tag-mets","tag-nlds","tag-rangers","tag-white-sox","tag-wild-card","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17384,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17305\/revisions\/17384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}