You know what? In 2018 early August, the Cubs had the best record in the big leagues by 3 games and had the championship pedigree in their lineup who had you expecting 95 wins a season.
This season the Cubs, are exceeding expectations with young talent and some other players that have stepped up after the league gave up on them. We’re fighting for a playoff spot and we were in danger Wednesday night of losing our third straight game and getting swept at home to a bitter rival Chicago White Sox. We have no beef at all with the Nationals, a team that has been very bad historically even when they were in Montreal.
The Grand Slam to win by 1 was crazy, but is that supposed to be a better walkoff just because one more runner was on base?
IMO Morel’s walkoff was better
– 1. A huge morale / momentum boost especially after the news earlier that day of Stroman being out indefinitely
– 2. Bragging rights / pride not being Swept by the pathetic White Sox
– 3. A big Win in the standings to avoid losing 3 straight and throwing us in the Wild Card picture going into an “easy” part of the schedule and it’s mid-August but we NEEDED that win.
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Honestly depends on how the season ends right?
Most memorable moment of the 2018 Cubs unfortunately is losing game 163
This team makes the playoffs? Especially if it’s by a game? This HR might end up being more memorable….
For me though-moment of the season so far is the Tauchman catch
I like this one better cuz i was there
Naw dawg
Grand slam down 3 on a team with actual real playoff hopes vs a 3 run hr on a team that is hot but no chance of winning it all
Bote’s came after Scherzer had just shut the Cubs down.
My favorite aspect about the Bote slam is that he was just some guy when it happened. He was an 18th round draft pick who made his debut that year to fill in and stepped up to the challenge, resulting in one of the best Cubs moments post 2016.
We saw Morel the year before and he was tearing up AAA this year, so the “just some guy” factor wasn’t there for him.
I think this is recency bias. There has been a lot of great cubs walk off homers but there’s a reason everyone compares them to Bote’s in particular.. it was absolutely incredible. Bote was an untested player too which no one was sure of what to expect at the time. His ultimate grand slam is of the same pedigree of memorable cubs moments as Wood’s 20 K game. Not dissing Morel or his accomplishment at all.. but Bote’s was unforgettable.
Honestly, no way. Losing this game to the White Sox would have stung more than losing that one to the Nationals, but that’s really the only factor working against the Bote slam. There was an additional runner on, which does matter because grand slams are cool, plus Bote’s came with two outs, so that particular AB held more weight, and it was a national broadcast, and the hit itself was more majestic. Every decent team has at least one moment that’s comparable to Morel’s walkoff every year. Bote’s walkoff slam is the best regular season walkoff of this millenium.