This Day in Baseball: Mad Dog Goes 6-for-6

By Precious Sanders @pdsanders99

On July 26, 1975, Bill Madlock went 6-for-6 at Wrigley Field as the Cubs lost to the New York Mets, 9-8, in ten innings. Madlock’s hits consisted of five singles and a triple, and that year, he would go on to win his first (of four) batting title with a .354 average.

Bill Madlock at bat, 1986 (public domain/Wikimedia Commons)