Game 4 was postponed for a day, and when the Cubs lost to force Game 5, the teams had to play without benefit of a travel day. It showed; the play was ragged, but in the end the Cubs held on and took the series three games to two.
And here you thought Game 7 of the 2016 World Series was the craziest Cubs game ever.
Thursday night in Washington in a baseball game that at times redefined what we know as “baseball,” Wade Davis got Bryce Harper to swing and miss at a cutter for strike three and the Cubs outlasted the Nationals 9-8 to win their division series and move on to a date with the Dodgers in a rematch of last year’s National League Championship Series, beginning Saturday in Los Angeles.