1985 Chicago Cubs season

The 1985 Chicago Cubs season was the 114th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 110th in the National League and the 70th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs finished fourth in the National League East with a record of 77–84. The season had opened with high hopes as the Cubs had won the NL East title the year before. However, injuries were a major factor as four of the Cubs' starting pitchers were on the disabled list at the same time.

Offseason November 28, 1984: Dennis Eckersley was signed as a free agent by the Chicago Cubs.Dennis Eckersley at Baseball Reference December 4, 1984: Ron Hassey, Porfi Altamirano, Rich Bordi, and Henry Cotto were traded by the Chicago Cubs to the New York Yankees for Ray Fontenot and Brian Dayett.Ron Hassey at Baseball Reference December 7, 1984: Steve Trout was signed as a free agent by the Cubs.Steve Trout at Baseball Reference January 3, 1985: Guy Hoffman was signed as a free agent by the Cubs.Guy Hoffman at Baseball Reference

Regular season Ryne Sandberg became the first Cub since 1969–1970 to score 100 runs in two consecutive seasons.

On June 11, the Cubs had a record of 35-19, and held a four game lead over the New York Mets for the division. However, Rick Sutcliffe, Steve Trout, Scott Sanderson and Dennis Eckersley all were injured, and the Cubs went on a 13-game losing streak that effectively eliminated them from contention. The Cubs ultimately finished seven games below .500 after having been 16 games above .500. Shawon Dunston made his Major League debut. He struggled early on, so the Cubs sent him back to Iowa in early May. However, once he returned, it spelled the end for Larry Bowa, who was released in August and picked up by the New York Mets.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions April 9, 1985: Jacob Brumfield was released by the Cubs.Jacob Brumfield at Baseball Reference May 12, 1985: Dave Hostetler was purchased by the Chicago Cubs from the Montreal Expos.

Draft picks The Cubs drafted pitcher Dave Masters with the twenty-fourth overall pick in the 1985 Draft.Sports Illustrated, August 2, 2010, Where are they Now?, p.84, Published by Time Inc. June 3, 1985: Doug Dascenzo was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 12th round of the 1985 amateur draft. Player signed June 12, 1985. June 3, 1985: Mark Grace was drafted by the Cubs in the 24th round of the 1985 amateur draft. Player signed August 29, 1985.Mark Grace at Baseball Reference

Roster 1985 Chicago Cubs Roster Pitchers Catchers

Infielders Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Game log

|- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |1||April 9|| Pirates||2 – 1 ||Sutcliffe (1-0)||Rhoden (0-1)||Smith (1)|| 34,551 ||1-0|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |2||April 11|| Pirates||4 – 1 ||Trout (1-0)||DeLeón (0-1)|||| 10,049 ||2-0|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |3||April 12|| Expos||5 – 1 ||Smith (1-0)||Eckersley (0-1)|||| 14,337 ||2-1|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |4||April 13|| Expos||8 – 3 ||Sanderson (1-0)||Rogers (0-2)|||| 32,212 ||3-1|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |5||April 14|| Expos||4 – 2 ||Sutcliffe (2-0)||Palmer (0-1)|||| 31,512 ||4-1|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |6||April 15|| Phillies||2 – 1 ||Trout (2-0)||K. Gross (0-1)||Smith (2)|| 8,347 ||5-1|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |7||April 16|| Phillies||1 – 0 (10)||Eckersley (1-1)||Holland (0-1)|||| 11,937 ||6-1|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |8||April 17|| Phillies||5 – 4 ||Frazier (1-0)||K. Gross (0-2)||Smith (3)|| 15,752 ||7-1|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |9||April 19||@ Expos||5 – 3 ||Smith (2-0)||Sutcliffe (2-1)||Reardon (2)|| 30,930 ||7-2|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |10||April 20||@ Expos||4 – 0 ||Gullickson (2-1)||Trout (2-1)||Reardon (3)|| 12,775 ||7-3|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |11||April 21||@ Expos||4 – 0 ||Eckersley (2-1)||Palmer (0-2)|||| 13,506 ||8-3|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |12||April 22||@ Pirates||5 – 3 ||McWilliams (1-1)||Ruthven (0-1)||Candelaria (3)|| 6,329 ||8-4|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |13||April 23||@ Pirates||5 – 0 ||Sutcliffe (3-1)||Bielecki (1-1)|||| 9,387 ||9-4|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |14||April 24||@ Pirates||5 – 2 ||Trout (3-1)||Rhoden (0-3)||Smith (4)|| 3,981 ||10-4|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |15||April 26||@ Phillies||7 – 3 ||Eckersley (3-1)||Koosman (0-1)|||| 27,187 ||11-4|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |16||April 27||@ Phillies||6 – 1 ||Rawley (3-0)||Sanderson (1-1)|||| 25,220 ||11-5|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |17||April 28||@ Phillies||3 – 2 ||K. Gross (2-2)||Sutcliffe (3-2)||Andersen (2)|| 31,890 ||11-6|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |18||April 30|| Giants||3 – 1 ||Trout (4-1)||Laskey (0-3)||Smith (5)|| 12,647 ||12-6||

|- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |19||May 1|| Giants||4 – 3 ||Eckersley (4-1)||Garrelts (0-1)|||| 14,490 ||13-6|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |20||May 3|| Padres||6 – 5 ||Hawkins (5-0)||Sutcliffe (3-3)||Gossage (7)|| 27,236 ||13-7|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |21||May 4|| Padres||12 – 8 ||Sorensen (1-0)||Booker (0-1)||Smith (6)|| 36,033 ||14-7|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |22||May 5|| Padres||6 – 3 ||Frazier (2-0)||DeLeón (0-2)|||| 36,388 ||15-7|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |23||May 6|| Dodgers||5 – 4 (10)||Howell (2-1)||Fontenot (0-1)|||| 20,796 ||15-8|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |24||May 7|| Dodgers||4 – 2 ||Ruthven (1-1)||Brennan (1-2)||Smith (7)|| 23,331 ||16-8|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |25||May 8||@ Giants||1 – 0 ||Sutcliffe (4-3)||Krukow (2-2)|||| 16,134 ||17-8|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |26||May 9||@ Giants||1 – 0 (12)||Garrelts (1-1)||Brusstar (0-1)|||| 11,825 ||17-9|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |27||May 10||@ Padres||6 – 2 ||Trout (5-1)||Hoyt (2-3)||Smith (8)|| 39,638 ||18-9|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |28||May 11||@ Padres||3 – 1 ||Show (4-2)||Eckersley (4-2)||Gossage (8)|| 54,395 ||18-10|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |29||May 12||@ Padres||5 – 3 ||Dravecky (2-2)||Ruthven (1-2)||Gossage (9)|| 50,226 ||18-11|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |30||May 14||@ Dodgers||8 – 3 ||Sutcliffe (5-3)||Valenzuela (3-4)|||| 48,187 ||19-11|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |31||May 15||@ Dodgers||3 – 2 ||Sanderson (2-1)||Honeycutt (2-3)||Smith (9)|| 46,213 ||20-11|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |32||May 17||@ Braves||7 – 5 ||Smith (1-0)||Sutter (2-1)|||| 20,901 ||21-11|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |33||May 18||@ Braves||4 – 3 ||Mahler (8-2)||Eckersley (4-3)||Sutter (7)|| 39,136 ||21-12|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |34||May 19||@ Braves||3 – 0 ||Bedrosian (1-2)||Sutcliffe (5-4)||Sutter (8)|| 30,389 ||21-13|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |35||May 20|| Reds||6 – 1 ||Sanderson (3-1)||Tibbs (3-6)|||| 21,231 ||22-13|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |36||May 21|| Reds||5 – 2 ||Hume (1-2)||Frazier (2-1)||Power (8)|| 32,007 ||22-14|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |37||May 22|| Reds||7 – 4 ||Eckersley (5-3)||Browning (4-3)||Smith (10)|| 27,863 ||23-14|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |38||May 24|| Astros||6 – 2 ||Ryan (4-2)||Ruthven (1-3)|||| 35,743 ||23-15|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |39||May 25|| Astros||5 – 4 ||Smith (2-0)||Ross (0-1)|||| 36,278 ||24-15|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |40||May 26|| Astros||10 – 8 ||Frazier (3-1)||Ross (0-2)||Smith (11)|| 37,044 ||25-15|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |41||May 27||@ Reds||4 – 3 ||Eckersley (6-3)||Browning (4-4)||Smith (12)|| 20,046 ||26-15|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |42||May 28||@ Reds||13 – 11 ||Franco (2-1)||Sorensen (1-1)|||| 15,121 ||26-16|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |43||May 29||@ Reds||1 – 0 ||Soto (7-3)||Ruthven (1-4)|||| 18,402 ||26-17|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |44||May 31||@ Astros||6 – 2 (10)||Smith (3-0)||Smith (4-2)|||| 33,440 ||27-17||

|- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |45||June 1||@ Astros||4 – 1 ||Eckersley (7-3)||Knepper (5-1)|||| 38,879 ||28-17|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |46||June 2||@ Astros||4 – 3 ||Scott (3-2)||Gura (0-1)||Smith (8)|| 21,129 ||28-18|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |47||June 4|| Braves||5 – 3 ||Ruthven (2-4)||Mahler (8-5)||Smith (13)|| 23,502 ||29-18|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |48||June 5|| Braves||4 – 2 (11)||Dedmon (3-0)||Smith (3-1)|||| 25,557 ||29-19|| According to the Cubs game footage shown in the 1986 movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, he took his day off on this day. |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |49||June 6|| Pirates||3 – 2 (12)||Brusstar (1-1)||Holland (1-3)|||| 22,368 ||30-19|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |50||June 7|| Pirates||1 – 0 ||Sutcliffe (6-4)||DeLeón (1-8)|||| 37,414 ||31-19|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |51||June 8|| Pirates||7 – 3 ||Trout (6-1)||McWilliams (3-4)|||| 35,232 ||32-19|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |52||June 9|| Pirates||5 – 1 ||Ruthven (3-4)||Winn (1-1)||Brusstar (1)|| 36,475 ||33-19|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |53||June 10||@ Expos||5 – 4 ||Fontenot (1-1)||Reardon (2-2)||Smith (14)|| 42,218 ||34-19|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |54||June 11||@ Expos||5 – 3 ||Frazier (4-1)||St. Claire (1-1)||Smith (15)|| 28,303 ||35-19|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |55||June 12||@ Expos||2 – 0 ||Palmer (5-5)||Sutcliffe (6-5)||Reardon (18)|| 10,378 ||35-20|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |56||June 13||@ Expos||9 – 7 ||Smith (7-2)||Trout (6-2)||Reardon (19)|| 14,210 ||35-21|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |57||June 14|| Cardinals||11 – 10 ||Andújar (12-1)||Ruthven (3-5)||Forsch (1)|| 36,745 ||35-22|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |58||June 15|| Cardinals||2 – 0 ||Cox (8-2)||Fontenot (1-2)|||| 34,716 ||35-23|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |59||June 16|| Cardinals||5 – 2 ||Kepshire (3-5)||Eckersley (7-4)||Campbell (3)|| 36,262 ||35-24|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |60||June 17||@ Mets||2 – 0 ||Darling (6-1)||Sutcliffe (6-6)|||| 41,986 ||35-25|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |61||June 18||@ Mets||5 – 1 ||Lynch (4-3)||Trout (6-3)|||| 41,125 ||35-26|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |62||June 19||@ Mets||1 – 0 ||Gooden (10-3)||Sanderson (3-2)|||| 51,778 ||35-27|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |63||June 20||@ Mets||5 – 3 ||Fernandez (2-4)||Fontenot (1-3)||McDowell (4)|| 37,203 ||35-28|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |64||June 21||@ Cardinals||7 – 5 ||Kepshire (4-5)||Eckersley (7-5)||Lahti (5)|| 46,005 ||35-29|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |65||June 22||@ Cardinals||2 – 1 (10)||Dayley (1-0)||Smith (3-2)|||| 49,231 ||35-30|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |66||June 23||@ Cardinals||7 – 0 ||Tudor (6-7)||Ruthven (3-6)|||| 45,881 ||35-31|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;" |67||June 25|| Mets||3 – 2 ||Gooden (11-3)||Sanderson (3-3)|||| 36,730 ||35-32|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |68||June 26|| Mets||7 – 3 ||Fontenot (2-3)||McDowell (5-3)||Smith (16)|| 35,876 ||36-32|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |69||June 27|| Mets||4 – 2 ||Sutcliffe (7-6)||Darling (6-2)|||| 35,857 ||37-32|| |- style="text-align:center; background:#bfb;" |70||June 28||@ Pirates||5 – 0 ||Trout (7-3)||DeLeón (2-10)|||| 16,432 ||38-32||