LOS ANGELES—The most dangerous team in baseball just got more dangerous.
The Chicago Cubs were already the heaviest postseason favorite since the 1998 Yankees. What their historic NLDS Game 4 comeback Tuesday in San Francisco did was to fortify their ability to play under duress.
Channeling the 1986 Mets, one of the greatest comeback teams of all time, Chicago came from three runs down in the ninth to clinch a series win. Only those Mets, against Houston in the NLCS, and these Cubs ever mounted such a comeback so big and so late to wrap up a series.