The deciding game in the best-of-three National League Wild Card Series between the Chicago Cubs and San Diego Padres starts at 4:08 p.m. It’s the second time the teams have faced each other in the postseason.

Forty one years ago, the Cubs entered October as the National League East champions with a 96-65 record. It had been 39 years since the team’s last trip to the World Series and 76 years since the Cubs’ last championship.

But Ryne Sandberg — who would be named the National League’s Most Valuable Player and earn his second of nine consecutive Golden Glove awards at second base — was just trying to find his pants . More than 33,000 fans stuck around Wrigley Field after the Cubs’ 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the regular-season finale. The team, which

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