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Chicago Cubs

A dated season record, captured results and the API calls behind them.

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2026 standings / Captured Oct 4, 2026 / Not live

Chicago Cubs crest

2026 season snapshot

Standings updated Oct 4, 2026. This is the API's dated 2026 row, not a live score or a claim about earlier seasons.

Wins
89
Losses
73
Games played
162
Runs for
850
Runs against
703
Run difference
+147
Runs / game
5.2
Allowed / game
4.3
Win percentage
54.9%
curl 'https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/standings?sport=baseball&league=MLB&season=2026' -H "x-api-key: $BBS_API_KEY"

Recent captured results

The 2026 team match query returned 179 finished matches held for this team. These are the five latest in that response, not live results or complete history.

Scores show this team first. Opponent links appear only for captured team pages.

curl 'https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/teams/a78273e0-42b3-4d9a-ae90-5bab14a66cef/matches?sport=baseball&season=2026&limit=200' -H "x-api-key: $BBS_API_KEY"

Player catalogue boundary

The team-filtered player catalogue is not season-scoped. It can include past players and other personnel, so this page does not present it as a 2026 roster. Use pagination.total and offset to retrieve the catalogue, then verify each person's season before calling them a current player.

curl 'https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/players?sport=baseball&teamId=a78273e0-42b3-4d9a-ae90-5bab14a66cef&limit=200' -H "x-api-key: $BBS_API_KEY"

Build with Chicago Cubs data

Use this canonical ID in the team-detail request below. It identifies this team in Big Balls Sports Data, not in another provider's API.

a78273e0-42b3-4d9a-ae90-5bab14a66cef

Find the team by name

Set BBS_API_KEY to your own API key. Name search can match aliases; confirm the returned identity before using an ID. For a broader catalogue, follow limit and offset and read pagination.total rather than treating one page as the full list.

curl 'https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/teams?sport=baseball&league=mlb&name=Chicago+Cubs&limit=2' -H "x-api-key: $BBS_API_KEY"

Fetch this team

curl 'https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/teams/a78273e0-42b3-4d9a-ae90-5bab14a66cef?sport=baseball' -H "x-api-key: $BBS_API_KEY"

Captured on . This is a selected-field excerpt of a real response, not live data or the complete response. Match totals cover all finished matches held for this team; they are not a current-season record or a claim of complete historical coverage.

{
  "data": {
    "id": "a78273e0-42b3-4d9a-ae90-5bab14a66cef",
    "name": "Chicago Cubs",
    "short_name": "CHC",
    "sport": "baseball",
    "league": "MLB",
    "stats": {
      "matches_played": 5842,
      "matches_with_scores": 5841,
      "wins": 2899,
      "draws": 3,
      "losses": 2939
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "stats_scope": "all finished matches held for this team"
  }
}