Friday's Cubs win might go down as the best game ever played at Wrigley Field

There aren't many instances where you blow a 7-1 lead in the eighth inning and win. But that's exactly what happened on a balmy Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field. After the Arizona Diamondbacks tallied 10 runs in the top of the eighth, the Chicago Cubs answered back with six of their own, coming on the heels of a five-run seventh - totaling 21 runs between the two teams in just two innings.

Not once in the history of Wrigley Field had the Cubs allowed 10 runs in a single inning and come away victorious. Until now. Looking to close out a tough month of April loaded with NL West matchups, every game counts - so finding a way to come away with a win in a game like this means everything for a team facing a must-win 2025 season.

This was a relatively straightforward 2-1 Cubs' lead heading into the bottom of the seventh, when the home faithful were rewarded with some breathing room, capped by an Ian Happ grand slam into the right-field seats. Then things went absolutely sideways and chaos took hold. Arizona's win probability sat at 96.3 percent after their 10-run top of the eighth. Yet, improbably, the Cubs pulled it off.

Friday's win will live on in the recordbooks of Chicago Cubs history

Wrigley Field has played host to countless memorable games over the decades. The 2016 pennant-clincher, 2003 NLCS Game 6, the first night game in the history of the Friendly Confines in 1988. And who could look past Kerry Wood's 20-strikeout game or any of Sammy Sosa's unforgettable performances during the '98 campaign?

Looking for something further back in the history books? How about Babe Ruth's infamous 'called shot' in the 1932 World Series? Ernie Banks joining the 500-homer club? Gabby Hartnett's 'Homer in the Gloamin' in 1938? And, I mean, few players have a game named after them - but Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg does - and it's an affair that's more than stood the test of time in the hearts and minds of Cubs fans everywhere.

The thing about a ballpark that's been around for more than a century is that it's seen pretty much everything, just due to the sheer volume of games played there. But on an unseasonably warm April Friday afternoon at Wrigley, we got treated to something none of us - or the Federal Landmark itself - has ever before borne witness to.