Overview
- Vargas went 0-for-4 at Wrigley Field on Saturday as the Cubs beat the Diamondbacks 2-0, with outs against starter Shota Imanaga and reliever Ben Brown ending the run at 27 games.
- The streak spanned three games late in 2025 and hits in each of his first 24 games this year, the second-longest season-opening run since Ron LeFlore’s 30 in 1976.
- The 27 games set the MLB record for a Venezuelan-born player, surpassing Wilson Ramos’ 26, and matched the longest streak in the league since Trea Turner’s 2021–22 27-gamer.
- In club history, only Luis Gonzalez’s 30-game stretch in 1999 is longer, and Vargas also set a Diamondbacks mark with a hit in 20 straight road games.
- Even after the hitless day, the 34-year-old holds a .388/.412/.673 line with six home runs, signaling a genuine surge for a journeyman in his third stint with Arizona.