Javier Assad pitched six shutout innings, after having pitched 6.1 without giving up a run in his relief appearance Sunday.
There have been 115 instances since 1901 of a Cub pitching at least two straight games with six innings and no runs.
Assad is just the ninth to do in with a start and in relief — and the first since Monk Dubiel on June 27 and July 2, 1950. Dubiel pitched the final 7.1 innings of a 3-2 loss at home vs. the Cardinals, then threw a complete game in a 16-0 romp at Cincinnati.
The previous eight, in chronological order: Carl Lundgren (1907), Guy Bush (1927), Charlie Root (1929), Lon Warneke (1934), Larry French (1936), Emil Kush and Paul Erickson (both 1946). They pitched between 14.1 (Erickson) and 17.1 innings (Root). Larry French pitched 12.1 innings, the same as Assad, in two relief outings in 1941.
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