Jon Lester’s 2019 home run might become the answer to a trivia question.

While the two sides continue to negotiate a return-to-play agreement, it’s been reported that the National League will adopt the designated hitter for both 2020 and 2021. After the 2021 season, the league and the MLB Players Association will be discussing a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and it’s expected the DH will be here to stay as part of that agreement, as well.

So we could be looking at the end of #PitchersWhoRake.

We’ve already examined how the 2020 Cubs would be impacted by the arrival of an extra bat in the lineup, but now that the reports of a 2021 DH adoption have been founded, let’s take a look at some of the accomplishments of Cubs pitchers at the dish:

• Jon Lester’s home run vs. Pirates last season (July 13) may be the final homer hit by a Cubs pitcher at Wrigley Field. Lester’s longball was one of 23 hit last season by MLB pitchers.

• The last Cubs pitcher to get a hit at Wrigley Field was Cole Hamels in a 2-0 loss to the Brewers (Aug. 31). Hamels doubled to left in the 5th inning.

• The last Cubs pitcher to reach base at Wrigley Field was Lester with a 3rd inning walk in a 17-8 win over the Pirates on Sept. 13.

• Hamels is the last Cubs pitcher to get a hit anywhere. He reached base on an infield single to the pitcher in the 4th inning of an 8-6 road win over the Cardinals (Sept. 28). It was the second hit of the game for Hamels, who singled to left in the top of the 2nd inning.

• Carlos Zambrano has 24 career home runs (tied for 7th all-time by pitchers).

• Fergie Jenkins (1971) and Zambrano (2006) have each hit 6 home runs in a single season.

• Former Cubs pitchers Travis Wood (11) and Jake Arrieta (6) are other notable Cubs with multiple career home runs. Both went deep in the 2016 National League Division Series against the Giants.

• In Game 2 of that NLDS, 3 of the 5 runs the Cubs scored were knocked in by pitchers (2 on a single by Kyle Hendricks and then another on Wood’s solo shot later in the contest). The next game, Arrieta hit a 3-run homer off Madison Bumgarner. Arrieta finished tied with Kris Bryant for the Cubs lead in RBI (3) in the entire series as pitchers drove in 6 of the 17 runs the team scored in 4 games.

• Kerry Wood hit a 2-run shot in Game 7 of the 2003 NLCS. We all know how that game ended, but at the time, Wood tied the score at 3-3 and sent the crowd of 39,574 into a state of euphoria.

• In four separate instances, Zambrano tallied multiple homers in a calendar month. He hit 2 in June 2006, 2 more in July 2006, another pair in September of that season and then went yard twice in August 2008.

• Zambrano also homered off the same pitcher, Kyle Lohse, twice in his career. “Big Z” took Lohse deep on Sept. 23, 2006 and then again three years later (July 12, 2009). Zambrano’s other victims include Mark Buehrle, Johnny Cueto, Tom Glavine and Roy Oswalt.

• Lester has a career .500 batting average as a pinch-hitter (2-for-4) and also has knocked in a pair of runs via squeeze bunts. He picked up the game-winning RBI with a perfectly executed bunt to score Jason Heyward and walk off the Mariners on July 31, 2016. Lester did so again in Milwaukee on April 7, 2018 when he gave the Cubs some insurance by squeezing home Ben Zobrist in the top of the 9th inning of a 5-2 victory.

• Arrieta hit a 440-foot homer off Shelby Miller in Arizona on April 10, 2016 — the longest regular season blast by a pitcher in Statcast history at the time. However, it’s not even the longest homer he’s ever connected on. In spring training 2017, Arrieta smashed a 465-foot shot off the Diamondbacks again (Zack Greinke was the pitcher this time).

• Travis Wood was a force at the plate in a 2-year span from 2013-14 for the Cubs. He hit .227 with a .403 slugging percentage and .667 OPS while smacking 6 homers, 3 doubles and driving in 18 runs in 133 plate appearances. Extrapolated out over a full season’s worth of plate appearances, Wood would’ve had 27 homers and 81 RBI. He also had an 82 OPS+ in that span, which means he was only 18% below the MLB league average for hitters those seasons — WHILE SERVING AS A PITCHER.