Youngest Cubs Opening Day Lineup since 1977

[Laura]

According to the Yahoo Sports game recap.

 

Here's the boxscore for the 1977 Opening Day Lineup (Cubs lose 5-3 to the Mets).

 

Other bits of trivia:

 

The Reds hadn't given so many opening-day runs since '77 -- 1877, that is, in a 24-6 loss to Louisville. .... The Reds hadn't given up five runs in the first inning of an opener since that loss to Louisville in 1877, eight years after they became baseball's first professional team.

 

The Cubs scored 15 runs in the 2003 opener, tying what was then the club record, and topped it with a 16-6 victory in Arizona last year that set the new standard -- now tied.

 

It's the first time since 1950-55 that they've won four consecutive openers. They've piled up 54 runs in those four games.

[CubinNY]

2005 opening day

2006 opening day

 

Wholy deja vu, batman. Let us all hope the rest of the season doesn't follow suit.

[Derwood]

2005 opening day

2006 opening day

 

Wholy deja vu, batman. Let us all hope the rest of the season doesn't follow suit.

 

Yes, eerily similar, right down to Z going 4 2/3 innings. Here's hoping someone doesn't tear a groin in a few weeks.

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

2005 opening day

2006 opening day

 

Wholy deja vu, batman. Let us all hope the rest of the season doesn't follow suit.

 

Yes, eerily similar, right down to Z going 4 2/3 innings. Here's hoping someone doesn't tear a groin in a few weeks.

 

maybe we'll get semi lucky and it'll be Jones.

[badger1679666666]

The Chicago Cubs will find out soon if the kids can play.

 

On Monday, the Cubs trotted out their youngest Opening Day starting lineup since 1977, with an average age of 28.08 years.

 

"This is the youngest team I've had, which is what I've been yearning for really for years now," Cubs manager Dusty Baker said prior to Monday's season opener against the Cincinnati Reds. "The younger the team, sometimes the more mistakes, but the more open and willing they are to be taught how to play. It seems like the older players are set in their ways."

 

:shock: :arrow: :lol:

 

His nose must be 15 inches long now.

[YearofDaCubs]

The Chicago Cubs will find out soon if the kids can play.

 

On Monday, the Cubs trotted out their youngest Opening Day starting lineup since 1977, with an average age of 28.08 years.

 

"This is the youngest team I've had, which is what I've been yearning for really for years now," Cubs manager Dusty Baker said prior to Monday's season opener against the Cincinnati Reds. "The younger the team, sometimes the more mistakes, but the more open and willing they are to be taught how to play. It seems like the older players are set in their ways."

 

:shock: :arrow: :lol:

 

His nose must be 15 inches long now.

:lol: :lol:

[anemic offense]

It's amazing some of those late 80s teams didn't make it. Ryno was just shy of 30 ( think), and the teams had Grace, Dunston, Rafy, Maddog, Moyer, Bilecki (I think), Berryhill, Smith, Walton, all young guys.

[Omar]

What's the average age now?

[jjgman21]

2005 opening day

2006 opening day

 

Wholy deja vu, batman. Let us all hope the rest of the season doesn't follow suit.

 

Yes, eerily similar, right down to Z going 4 2/3 innings. Here's hoping someone doesn't tear a groin in a few weeks.

 

that's the way things were setting up, but Z changed the Kharma by not bitching at the ump for his ridiculous strikezone and getting booted on his way off the field (not that Z could hit the side of a bard either openning day).

 

thus, even on what will be one of his three or four worst outtings of the year, Z saved us.

[LoneStarCubFan]

Wow, that 1977 line-up is a blast from the past. I knew every name but the back-up catcher.

[ThePenguin11]

Our roster looks like an old-timers reunion team when compared to the high school team being fielded in Miami. It's too bad they can't fast forward 2-3 years to when that team could dominate. Of course that's usually about the time when those guys would be sent off to the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, etc.