Chicago Cubs: Ranking the best moments of the 2016 season

Buckle your seatbelt, Cubs fans

Leading the National League Division series two games-to-one, the Chicago Cubs entered Game 4 with high hopes. Giants left-hander Matt Moore had other plans.

The southpaw rolled through the Chicago Cubs’ lineup all night long, but after hitting 120 pitches after the eighth, manager Bruce Bochy opted to make a move for a reliever. Chicago trailed at that point 5-2.

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Matt Vasgersian and John Smoltz had already begun talking about Jon Lester preparing for a win-or-go-home Game 5 start back at Wrigley Field when the magic began.

Kris Bryant led off the inning with a knock and a slumping Anthony Rizzo drew a walk to put two men on with nobody out.

Ben Zobrist, future World Series MVP, followed that with a two-bagger into the right-field corner, making it a 5-3 game.

Maddon then outmaneuvered Bochy in a pinch-hitter fiasco. After announcing Chris Coghlan, Maddon prompted the Giants to make a move to the lefty, Will Smith.

The Cubs’ skipper then tapped Willson Contreras to replace Coghlan. The Cubs’ rookie delivered, tying the game and silencing the AT&T Park crowd that had been raucous just moments earlier.

Jason Heyward laid down a sacrifice bunt to move the runner over, but instead bunted the ball right back at the pitcher. Contreras was forced out at second while Heyward beat out an errant throw to first before advancing to second.

Javier Baez followed with a grounder up the middle that scored Heyward and turned the tide in favor of the Chicago Cubs. A perfect bottom of the ninth by Aroldis Chapman closed things out and sent Chicago to their second-straight National League Championship Series appearance.

The only way to summarize the team’s comeback win is simple.

“We never quit.”