{"id":785728,"date":"2026-07-07T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785728\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:15:34","slug":"the-short-porch-is-looking-at-dansby-swansons-hot-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/785728\/","title":{"rendered":"The Short Porch is looking at Dansby Swanson\u2019s hot streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a wild run of Cubs baseball over the last few days. The Cubs put an exclamation point on a 16-10 June with a 23-run barrage against the Padres before promptly giving up 17 runs against the St. Louis Cardinals, because baseball. The bats have been hot generally, but one player in particular is in the midst of a historic hot streak: Dansby Swanson. I mean, just check out the three home runs he clubbed on July 1 against the Padres [VIDEO]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a remarkable turnaround, and you really don\u2019t have to look further than Dansby\u2019s splits before the hot streak and during it to see how big of an impact he\u2019s had during the last three weeks for the Cubs. Baseball is such a random game of hot and cold streaks that I don\u2019t generally recommend pulling cherry picked streaks in this way, however, what Dansby is doing right now is so noteworthy I think it\u2019s helpful. Below you can see Dansby\u2019s numbers on the season through June 16 compared to the absolute heater he\u2019s been on since June 17:<\/p>\n

I mean, the home run and RBI totals alone are mind-blowing stats. Dansby has had more long balls and runs batted in during this 65 plate appearance stretch than he\u2019s had during the first two and a half months of the season. It\u2019s been an unbelievable span of production. In fact, in the 150-year history of the Chicago Cubs only two other players have put up more RBI in a 16-game span than Dansby Swanson: Sammy Sosa and Hack Wilson.<\/p>\n

Sammy Sosa had one 16-game span where he had 32 RBI and 15 home runs. I\u2019m sure you remember it well, it was the summer of 1998 starting May 25 and ending June 15, part of his historic June that ultimately saw him club a record 20 home runs. Hack Wilson had an unbelievable run through late July and the end of August in 1930 en route to setting the all time single season RBI record of 191, that season included multiple 16-game spans that saw him post 30+ RBI. Next up on the list is Dansby Swanson.<\/p>\n

Kiki Cuyler also had a span of exactly 29 RBI in a 16 game span, tying Swanson\u2019s mark. Intriguingly, Cuyler\u2019s mark maps almost perfectly calendar-wise on Dansby\u2019s current streak. Cuyler built his run from June 19, 1930 to July 4, 1930.<\/p>\n

One fun fact about all of the numbers above, because spans start and stop on different days, Dansby should have a handful of shots between now and the All Star Break to pad those numbers and potentially pass Sosa and\/or Wilson. He\u2019ll lose two RBI next game as the Cubs contest with the Orioles replaces a June 17 game against the Rockies where he went 1 for 4 against the Rockies with a home run and two RBI, he\u2019ll lose another RBI the day after that as he replaces the June 19 game against Toronto that saw him go 1 for 6 with an RBI. Given the hot streak he\u2019s been on, it wouldn\u2019t be terribly surprising to see him put together a performance worth more than an RBI or three over the next two games.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s hoping Dansby stays hot so the Cubs can keep their winning ways going as they head into the All Star break. He won\u2019t really start to lose the core of his current streak until the doubleheader from June 24 against the Mets falls out of the span. That day he notched 11 RBI across two games, going a combined 5 for 9 over two games with two home runs and a triple. Let\u2019s check out the seven-RBI affair that started it all one more time [VIDEO]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a wild run of Cubs baseball over the last few days. The Cubs put an exclamation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,271721,462,82],"class_list":["post-785728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-cubs-analysis","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}