As noted here and everywhere else yesterday, Lou Piniella has decided to give Carlos Zambrano the Opening Day assignment at Houston. It will be the fifth time Zambrano has had the honor; the Cubs have gone 2-2 in Z's previous Opening Day outings.
Fergie Jenkins started seven openers for the Cubs, while Rick Sutcliffe started five, and Rick Reuschel, four. The real fun in looking over this list at Baseball-Reference.com is noting which Cub pitchers got to go in Game #1 once, but never again. Here are the last ten such Cub pitchers:
Year
Pitcher
Opponent
Final Score
1999
Steve Trachsel
Houston
4-2 (L)
1998
Kevin Tapani
Florida
11-6 (L)
1997
Terry Mulholland
Florida
4-2 (L)
1996
Jamie Navarro
San Diego
5-4 (W)
1995
Jim Bullinger
Cin...
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