Cubs-Giants, Sept. 28, 1998 (one-game playoff for NL wild card)
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- Three big moments from the Cubs' 5-3 victory over the Giants in the one-game playoff in 1998 to determine the National League wild card: Gary Gaetti's two-run homer in the fifth, Matt Mieske's pinch-hit, two-run single in the sixth and the last out of the game, Joe Carter's pop-out to Mark Grace. Here's the box score from Baseball Reference: bit.ly/1AE3L2x
This is one of those Cubs moments I feel that gets often forgotten.
Alex Patt That's. Jon. Miller. Voice of. The. Giants. Still to this day is.
Yup
This was the first time the Cubs went to the playoffs in my lifetime. It's a bigger deal now in hindsight.
Jcherry316 it was only their third trip to the playoffs since 1945 in a historic home run race season, so yeah it was kind of a big deal.
It DEFINITELY takes Brant Brown off the hook...
Rod Beck was the hero of this '98 team. He pitched exhausted and hurt plenty of times down the stretch. Sosa gets all the press for his 66 home run season, but Beck willed this scrappy Cubs team into the postseason.
~RIP Rod Beck~
Mark Grace and Orlando Merced has huge September’s, too, including walk-off homers on back-to-back days during the final two weeks of the season.
I miss Rod Beck. He got the job done when it needed to get done. Best closer in baseball at that time. May he Rest in Peace.
@@bigeric1030 Grace catching that final out (the pop up) and smiling was one of the greatest moments ever. I miss 1998 a lot. I miss 2003 more though.
I had forgotten that Shawon Dunston was on the Giants during that game after all those years with the Cubs.
I believe the '98 Cubs are the only team in MLB history to make the postseason sandwiched in between seasons with 94+ losses. They lost 94, 95 and 97 games respectively in '97, '99 and '00 with this season somehow sneaking in between all that awfulness.
The 2013 Red Sox are probably the closest to duplicating that
98 was a wonderful year. I was a little kid and have a great memory of it all surprisingly. Life was a lot better back then. I miss it.
2016 and 1998 are my favorite years to be Cubs fan. I was in Wrigleyville both times, and both times to broke to be inside. The energy outside of Wrigley was amazing! Cubs fan since I could walk. For all the terrible, forgettable years, 95+ loses, this was such a life changing moment.
For me it was 98 and 2003.. 2003 is my favorite team ever I loved that team
ANY time the Cubs have a WINNING season is MY FAVORITE CUBS season...
@@TheSands83 Me too!! I love 2003. Greatest Year Ever in my opinion. Life was so good back then. We didnt have the garbage that we have today. Things were fun. People were happy. I miss the 2000s, especially 2003. 1998 was fun too, but 2003 was just so darn magical.
I was at the Opener and at this game in 1998.
Rip shooter
In Rod We Trust
I had forgotten that Matt Meiske played for the Cubs. He had some nice seasons in Milwaukee.
This was Joe Carter's final at-bat of his career.
I suppose it's all fitting. He started his career as a Cub and then he ended his career playing against the Cubs...
And he saw something that he couldn't do as a Cub. He watched a Cubs Team clinch a spot in the Postseason.
Thanks for the memories of Cubs advancing to the next round of the post season for the first time. Gary Gaetti a great waiver wire pickup & Mulhalland came in to face Bonds 9th, bases loaded & jammed him enough to get a fly ball instead of home run.
Final out, Mark Grace looks like he just finished a marathon
Jason Richards I was lucky to be there that night. Just making the playoffs took so much out of that team, they had no chance against the Braves (even though they almost won Game 2 of the NLDS). Thanks for writing. I'm glad you like it.
Must have been a crazy night, Cubs advancing after a do or die game.
I remember checking flights for game 2 in Atlanta @ midnight, after Cubs won, since Turner Field wasn't close to sold out
Jason Richards Great night. I was in first base boxes. Fun and crazy.
+Jeff Agrest Where were you sitting?
Baseball was so much more to us back then
Beck clinches the NL West for the Giants in 97. Eliminates the Giants in 98.
I didn't realize he played for San Francisco the year before. Interesting.
RIP Shooter, God Bless Rod Beck.
+Noel Castillo FlipNVegas (FlipNVegas) 🙂👍
Harry Caray and Jack Brickhouse both died that year... 😥😞😧😩
Don't think Trachsel gets enough credit for this game- No one seems to remember or mention that he didn't allow a hit through the first six innings.
Jeff Agrest thanks for sharing I totally forgotten that the Cubs had Gary Gaetti and I'm a 54 year old lifelong die hard Cub fan
Dat flapless helmet of Gary Gaetti, tho...... he wasn't the last player to use to wear such a helmet while batting (upon his retirement in 2000), that was Tim Raines during his brief comeback in 2001/02 that was the last flapless helmet user.
Time for a 20th Anniversary repeat, boys!
I always remember this game and joe carters last at bat vs rod beck.
Legendary commentary. Holy shit. This is the year I became a fan of the team. Was just getting into baseball. Great time.
One of the best games ive ever been to
I was there....a really fun and boisterous night. Great time.
RD S me too. I was at the Milwuakee tiebreaker last year
2018. Not the same outcome 20 years later. :(
jovan vasic ah fuck. Day ruined.
You're giving me some great memories here too. I was there that night. Thanks for sharing this.
I wish they'd shown the overhead shot just afterwards, with the fans streaming out of Wrigley Field, racing in a mob to the ticket office just down the street to get their tickets for the next playoff series. That was awesome. Rod Beck was one of 2 or 3 pitchers in MLB who could have pulled that off. He had _nothing_ left in the tank . . . but he was one of those unusual pitchers whose ability to get the last out in the inning was independent of whether his fastball was working.
Remember the year before, the Brian Johnson game? Worn out, overused, starting the tenth inning of a must-win game against the Dodgers, Shooter gave up three straight singles to load 'em with no out ... and Dusty Baker actually left him in. (He didn't have anyone else remotely capable of getting out of that alive.) And Beck -- fueled by fury at the boos from the stands (it was at Candlestick!)-- well, he fucking. Got. Out. Of. It. Struck out Todd Zeile on a fourth pitch, an easy-listening slowball straight down the middle -- and then Kent turned the DP, and the whole place fucking exploded. And Beck strode off the mound, slamming his fist into the glove, ignoring the other Giants, screaming obscenities at his own team's fans.
And then, just to make the point, Shooter set 'em down, in order, in the 11th. And the 12th. And then Brian Johnson walked off to win it. With the possible exception of Braden Looper's out-of-nowhere walk-on in game 4 of the 2003 World Series, that was the single greatest thing I've ever seen a relief pitcher do, bar none. And Shooter could do that kind of thing over and over again.
I remember watching a few Cubs games late in the '98 season. Over and over again, as the Cubs struggled to make it to the end, I'd watched in amazement as the Cubs just could not get that last out to escape the inning . . . and every time, Rod Beck -- who we never should've traded -- had to trudge out from the bullpen, on no rest, to clean up Terry Mulholland's mess and close it out. Nobody was ever better, ever, at winning ugly.
When Joe Carter came up in that last inning ... I found myself rooting against my own team. I wanted Shooter to get that last out so bad. As I watched them dogpile him at the end (you can't even see him), I realized I was having a much bigger emotional reaction than I would've had if the Giants had won . . . and when they cut to that overhead shot, all the fans running down the street, I had to turn away.
Just for one day, a whole city knew how stupid we were to let him go. RIP big guy.
Great post!
98 was a very memorable year for cubs fans no doubt about it
It was a cinderella season for the Cubs.
Cubs Vs Giants 1998 NL Tiebreaker On ESPN
I was at this game. W
Thanks for uploading this jeff
As a Life long Minnesota Twins fan Gari Gaetti was fantastic.He always seemed to come through in the clutch and you witnessed it right here.Great third baseman that should be in the hall of fame.
I was there. what a night!
This was a great game, a great ending to a damn good and frankly unforgettable season.
"The winner would go to Atlanta."
Wrong. If the giants won, they'd play,Houston.
Elijah Admire wrong. Until four or five seasons ago, there was a rule stating that the Wild Card team could not play against an opponent from their own division in the NLDS, no matter their records.
5:25 Mark Grace running in to grab the rosin bag *just in case* his hand sweat makes him throw a ball away looking for the last out
Sadly, Dusty got his revenge for this game
Thank you for posting!
cubs on to the postseason...and there we lose again. As a lifelong
Cubs fan, ive been through that too many times. til 2016
Carter missed a meatball pitch @ 4:25
Hey guys Matt Mieske is my dad’s cousin 😊🤚🏻
...and the final out had to be the former Cub farmhand and the former World Series hero.
What’s with the infield?
Wish you had more post game coverage. Great video though
Joe Carter's last game.
Who are they taking on wild card spot
"The Cubs will go ... get their ass handed to them by the Braves!"
At least they made it that far!
Braves were in their prime regarding their dynasty days before it went downhill which those were the good ole days as well despite of finally seeing my team in the NLCS where I was two years old when they made it back in 2001 before last year's appearance.
We just may have to go to a NL Tiebreaker against the Mets in early October with how bad our luck is in 2021.
The Cubs DO get their revenge on the Braves five years later...
I forgot about cubbies in 1998
Joe Morgan tried to take Gary’s thunder by blaming it solely on the pitcher. Joe was awful!
Orlando Merced made a catch in this game similar to one that Moises Alou couldn't make for the Cubs about 5 years later. Also, how awesome is it to see Dusty Baker fail in the playoffs? Go Cubs Go!
Mike Praznowski You’re on your own on that one. He will forever be a Cub as well. Love dusty for that painful, but magical 03 season.
0:06 On an 0-2 count dude hits a seed lol why was that pitch even close to the plate!? Also the most boring football game in recent time was going on simultaneously… Lions and Buccaneers halftime score 6-3 (Charlie Batch 94 yards passing 🤣🤣)
I hated when Joe Morgan announced Cub games.
True, toward the end of his tenure. But, watching this clip, from 1998, and comparing it to the crew The Worldwide Leader has calling games on a Sunday Night, now? I'd take Morgan and Miller.