This is one of those Cubs moments I feel that gets often forgotten.

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.

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.

I had forgotten that Shawon Dunston was on the Giants during that game after all those years with the Cubs.

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.

I was at the Opener and at this game in 1998.

Baseball was so much more to us back then

Rip shooter

I always remember this game and joe carters last at bat vs rod beck.

I had forgotten that Matt Meiske played for the Cubs. He had some nice seasons in Milwaukee.

Cubs Vs Giants 1998 NL Tiebreaker On ESPN

98 was a very memorable year for cubs fans no doubt about it

One of the best games ive ever been to

Beck clinches the NL West for the Giants in 97. Eliminates the Giants in 98.

Thanks for uploading this jeff

Time for a 20th Anniversary repeat, boys!

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

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.

Thank you for posting!

Harry Caray and Jack Brickhouse both died that year... 😥😞😧😩

This was Joe Carter's final at-bat of his career.

Legendary commentary. Holy shit. This is the year I became a fan of the team. Was just getting into baseball. Great time.

You're giving me some great memories here too. I was there that night. Thanks for sharing this.

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

This was a great game, a great ending to a damn good and frankly unforgettable season.

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.

I was at this game. W

I was there....a really fun and boisterous night. Great time.

"The winner would go to Atlanta." Wrong. If the giants won, they'd play,Houston.

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.

I was there. what a night!

Joe Carter's last game.

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.

Hey guys Matt Mieske is my dad’s cousin 😊🤚🏻

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

Carter missed a meatball pitch @ 4:25

...and the final out had to be the former Cub farmhand and the former World Series hero.

Wish you had more post game coverage. Great video though

What’s with the infield?

cubs on to the postseason...and there we lose again. As a lifelong Cubs fan, ive been through that too many times. til 2016

"The Cubs will go ... get their ass handed to them by the Braves!"

Who are they taking on wild card spot

I forgot about cubbies in 1998

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 🤣🤣)

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!

I hated when Joe Morgan announced Cub games.