CHICAGO -- Even with one team’s place in the postseason locked up and the other’s fully vaporized, a late September matchup between the Cardinals and Cubs at Wrigley Field always has the potential to bring drama and intrigue.

The bottom of Saturday’s eighth inning even brought some history -- though not as much as an antsy Chicago crowd anticipated -- and perhaps just enough to add a couple drops more fuel to one of the game’s historic rivalries.

Michael Busch homered in the first and fifth, doubled in the third and tripled in the seventh. He walked to home plate in the eighth just a single shy of the cycle, but lingered there only momentarily before a signal from the St. Louis dugout sent him to first base with an intentional walk.

And oh, how the boos came raining down.

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