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Javier Baez Could Set New MLB Record in Game 4

Chicago Cubs infielder Javier Baez is in the team’s starting lineup for Game 4 of the NLCS on Wednesday night, and if he doesn’t manage to get a base hit, he has a chance to break a record he wants no part of.

So far this postseason, Baez is a staggering 0-for-20, having failed to register a single base hit against either the Washington Nationals or Los Angeles Dodgers. That stretch continued thanks to a seventh inning pop-out in Game 3, and it put him into exclusive territory.

According to NBC Sports Chicago’s Christopher Kamka, Baez is now poised to become just the sixth player ever, and the first in almost 50 years, to go 0-for-20, or worse, in a playoff run.

The last player to achieve that feat was Dal Maxvill, who went 0-for-22 as a member of the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals.

That currently stands as the MLB record for worst postseason batting performance of all time, eclipsing the 0-for-21 that four other players, including 1906 Cubs player Jimmy Sheckard, have put up in a postseason.

If Baez goes hitless in three or more at-bats on Wednesday, he would set a new big league record for futility, and it would definitely mean that the Cubs’ chances of winning and keeping their season alive would take a serious plunge. 

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