Cubs, White Sox Rosters Sport Names With a Home Field Advantage

Major League Baseball is a sports league that loves its statistical minutiae.

The league keeps track of everything, no matter how trivial. Like the fact that Fernando Tatis is the only player to hit two grand slams in the same inning of a game off the same pitcher when he did it in 1991.

Or that Don Mattingly set a single-season record for grand slams in 1987 with six, and those were the only grand slams of his 13-year career.

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This past week, the Cubs and White Sox can toss an inconsequential log on to MLB's obscure facts fire, something user yaybuttons pointed out on a recent Reddit post.

GRAPHIC: (User yaybuttons | Reddit)

After the Southsiders made a trade with the San Diego Padres on June 4, both of Chicago's major league teams now include players who share the names of streets their respective stadiums are located on.

• Cubs: Infielder and top prospect Addison Russell shares a name with Wrigley Field's address, 1060 W. Addison St.
• White Sox: The middle name of pitcher James Shields isn't West 35th Street. But Shields Avenue and West 35th, which contains stadium parking for U.S. Cellular Field, was the address of the original Comiskey Park.

And one of the players involved in the White Sox-Padres trade that created this bit of name synchronicity? Fernando Tatis Jr., son of the aforementioned grand slam-hitting Tatis.

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