Twitter reacts to Cubs winning the NLDS

Maddon: 'Expectations is a good word'For three hours, the Cubs trailed the San Francisco Giants.

For three hours, it looked as if the NLDS would come down to a winner-take-all Game 5 back at Wrigley Field Thursday night.

For three hours, a long-suffering Cubs fanbase tried to find some way to deal with the pain again.

Then, everything changed. In a span of about 10 minutes, the Cubs went from Game 4 losers to advancing to the National League Championship Series for the second straight season.

The Cubs had a 2 percent chance of winning that game entering the ninth inning trailing 5-2:

The Cubs' FanGraphs win expectancy before the ninth inning was 2%. pic.twitter.com/2UX4CpnUbg

— Joey Kaufman…