Cubs Are Accomplishing Feats They Haven't Accomplished In Decades Upon Decades

(CBS) What's a good way for a team to break a 107-year World Series drought?

There's no easy answer, but accomplishing feats in the regular season that haven't been accomplished in decades upon decades is a good way to start.

After hanging on for an 8-5 road win against the Giants on Tuesday night, the Cubs have now won 21 of their past 25 games. It's the first time Chicago has accomplished that since 1938, according to ESPN Stats & Info. It's the best run in all of baseball since the Dodgers did it in 2013, per Elias Sports Bureau.

This comes on the heels of a four-game sweep of the Braves last weekend, which was the Cubs' fourth four-game sweep of the season -- their most since 1945, according to Comcast SportsNet stats guru Christopher Kamka. 1945 was the last time the Cubs went to the World Series.

There are plenty of individuals standing out as well. With a three-run homer Tuesday, rookie Kyle Schwarber is the first Cubs player in the modern era -- since 1900 -- to hit 12 homers in the first 42 games of his career, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

On Monday, Kris Bryant became the first Cub to ever hit multiple walk-off homers in his rookie season, according to ESPN Stats & Info, when his opposite-field ninth-inning blast pushed Chicago past Cleveland, 2-1.

The Cubs are now 18-1 in their last 19 games against National League teams. And remember: They're doing all this with four rookies (Schwarber, Bryant, Jorge Soler and Addison Russell) in their everyday lineup (when they're all healthy). No team since the institution of the playoff system in 1969 (two divisional winners meeting in the League Championship Series instead of just one pennant winner from each league meeting in the World Series), no team in MLB history has made the postseason with four rookies regularly playing four different positions, according to Baseball Prospectus writer and stats extraordinaire Scott Lindholm.

At 73-51 and 7.5 games clear of the Giants for the second NL wild-card berth, the Cubs are on track to become the first team to do so.