Dansby Swanson kept a remarkable run going on Wednesday, and the Chicago Cubs got another burst from a hitter who has been driving in runs at a pace not seen in 86 years. Swanson hit three home runs, including a grand slam, and by the end of the night he had become the first player in 86 years to post 26 RBI in a 10-game span.
That is the kind of number that turns a good week into a line of historical company. The comparison reaches back to Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio and Mel Ott, and even Babe Ruth never reached that 26-RBI mark in that window. Jesse Rogers was cited for the historical framing, and the scale of the streak matters because it puts Swanson in territory usually reserved for the game’s most extreme offensive peaks.
The reason people are still talking about Wednesday, though, is not only the total. Swanson hit his grand slam after the Cubs were already ahead by double-digits, which stripped some of the drama from the moment even as it added to the box score. The game had been decided by then, but Swanson still kept swinging with the same force that had already produced two home runs a day earlier and three more on Wednesday.
That is what makes the stretch so striking: it is not a one-night surge, but a run that has kept building from game to game until it has forced a comparison to names that define power hitting. Billy Heyen, a freelance writer with The Sporting News, documented the feat, and the next question is not whether the streak was real, but how long the Cubs can keep getting this version of Swanson in the middle of the order.
