Remember When the Cubs Had a 6-Run Comeback Against the Cardinals?

I just love moments like these, especially when it's against one of your top division rivals: the Cardinals. I'll take you through a play-by-play of what happened and then you can watch the video at the bottom.

It's the top of the 9th inning and the Cubs are down 6-1 to the Cardinals at Busch Stadium. This is July 20th, 2021, and the core group has yet to be traded. It's just another game that the Cubs are going to lose, most Cubs fans are thinking, and a comeback isn't really on many minds.

Luis Garcia was pitching for the Cardinals and Patrick Wisdom was leading off in the inning. He led off by a strikeout (I mean, it is Wisdom), but the ball got away from Molina, making it a wild pitch. Wisdom reached first and now the Cubs have one on base and no outs.

Nico Hoerner was up next, and hit a groundball to shortstop Paul DeJong, but he threw it away and Hoerner reached first, and Wisdom took third. Now the Cubs have first and third and no outs.

Now Garcia walked Jake Marsinick on four pitches and the Cubs have bases loaded and no outs. Cardinals' manager Shildt pulled Garcia in favor of Alex Reyes to face Sergio Alcantara. Reyes walked Alcantara to force in a run and now the score is 6-2 with no outs.

Willson Contreras was up next and struck out to make the first out of the game. Now Rizzo (remember the good old days when he was on the Cubs?), was up, and Reyes walked him to make the game 6-3. The Cubs are now down by only 3 and the bases are still loaded with only 1 out.

Baez, "El Mago" was up, and the count was now 3-1, so most assumed there would be another walk. However, he instead hit a single to center field and scored 2 runs. The score is now 5-6 and the Cubs have runners on first and second and one out.

Ian Happ is now up at bat, and what does he do but hit a game changing double down the line, scoring both Rizzo and Baez and making the score 7-6 in the Cubs favor. With a runner at second and only one out, there was still chances to score runs, but Heyward grounded out and Wisdom struck out to end the inning with the Cubs up by one.

Ross put closer Craig Kimbrel in, and he took care of business by getting the final three outs in a row and giving the Cubs the win.

An interesting thing to note is that this was the first time any Cubs team had accomplished that feat — winning a game they had been behind five runs after eight innings — since April 29th, 1979.

Now you can go ahead and watch the video of when this happened:

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