After each team scores three times in the seventeenth inning to remain tied, the Astros finally edge the Cubs, 8-7, thanks to Billy Hatcher’s home run in the top of the next frame. The Wrigley Field contest was suspended yesterday at the end of the 14th due to darkness, with the score knotted at 4-4.

On September 3, 1986 — After each team scores three times in the seventeenth inning to remain tied, the Astros finally edge the Cubs, 8-7, thanks to Billy Hatcher’s home run in the top of the next frame. The Wrigley Field contest was suspended yesterday at the end of the 14th due to darkness, with the score knotted at 4-4.

the Cubs and Astros set a major-league record by using 53 players, including 17 pitchers, tying the number used three weeks ago.

 

 

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