EDITOR’S NOTE: This might be the most memorable walkoff home run in Cubs history, at least in modern times. Thus you probably don’t need to be told too much more about it.

Lightly edited, here’s the article I wrote about it in 2023 on its fifth anniversary.

David Bote’s ultimate grand slam on Aug. 12, 2018, bringing the Cubs from a two-out, two-strike, 3-0 deficit to a 4-3 win in an instant, was hit in just his 34th big-league game. Bote had a solid 2017 in Double-A and hit well in the Arizona Fall League, putting him on the Cubs prospect radar after five previous ho-hum seasons. He had three callups from Triple-A Iowa in 2018 before coming to the Cubs to stay on July 26.

Bote had started the four games previous to August 12, going 4-for-14 with a triple, but Joe Maddon gave him the nig

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