I’ve got a personal story about this game, so let me lead this article with it.
I missed this game. I had a business meeting out of town that weekend. The meeting had wrapped up early that afternoon and so I was sitting in the airport waiting for my flight back to Chicago and following the game online on my laptop. There was no MLB.TV then (it didn’t start until 2002), so I just had the play-by-play.
I had to stop following in the bottom of the sixth inning because my flight was boarding. The Cubs were leading 4-1 on a pair of two-run homers by Sammy Sosa and Todd Hundley in the fourth.