Feedzy Read More The Cubs sit at 34-34 so far in 2026, but the way they’ve gotten to that .500 record is anything but average. While it seems hard to believe here in June, yes, it was 2026 when the Cubs were putting together multiple 10 game winning streaks, not to mention a 15-game home winning streak that had fans giddy and looking up records from decades ago.Oh, what a difference a month makes:That’s right, y’all. It was this season when the Cubs were 15-games over .500 and looked like they might just be the team to beat in a tough NL Central. Here on June 11 they are eight games back of the division leading Brewers having just dropped back-to-back games (and therefor the series) against the 26-42 Colorado Rockies. Their offensive woes are so entrenched they’ve managed to score just five runs in two games at Coors Field.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementTo be clear, baseball isn’t played in a 30-game season for a reason. There are winning streaks and losing streaks. The 2016 World Series Champion Cubs were 1-9 heading into the All Star break. But looking at that 7-22 mark, which is good for merely a .241 winning percentage over a 29-game stretch, had me wondering which Cubs teams had 30-game stretches of sub-.300 winning percentage baseball and how they wound up faring that season.Luckily, Baseball Reference has precisely the right tool for this query in their span-finder. Unluckily, none of the Cubs teams who have ever gone 8-22 at some stretch during the season since 1920 (the Live Ball Era) have ever made the playoffs. You can peruse this very sad and hapless list below:YearWorst 30-game win %W/LFired Manager?Playoffs?1981.1434-24YesNo1973.1675-25NoNo2006.2006-24NoNo2000.2006-24NoNo1999.2006-24NoNo2021.2337-23NoNo2012.2337-23NoNo1980.2337-23YesNo1966.2337-23NoNo1954.2337-23NoNo1953.2337-23NoNo1951.2337-23YesNo1921.2337-23YesNo1960.2417-22ResignedNo1956.2417-22NoNo2013.2678-22NoNo2010.2678-22ResignedNo1997.2678-22NoNo1982.2678-22NoNo1979.2678-22ResignedNo1955.2678-22NoNo1947.2678-22NoNoA few notes on this list. First, spans don’t happen in neat 30-game intervals and the way Baseball Reference deals with that is to identify multiple spans. I sorted this query by lowest winning percentage and scanned a little over 250 individual spans to identify each year where there was a 30-game span with an 8-22 record or worse. I think I got every season, but I may have missed one or two. Additionally, a lot of the teams who had a 5-25 stretch also had a 6-24 stretch or a 7-23 stretch, you get the gist. They are represented by the worst 30-game stretch they had that season.The years that don’t have 30 decisions in the list are stretches that had some tie games in pre-lights Wrigley Field.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAll of the above notes aside, that table isn’t so much a warning bell as the Titanic hitting an iceberg. The glass isn’t half empty, it somehow evaporated after being overflowing.No Cubs team that has ever posted a 30-game winn