Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan rasa wasan karin-in-in wasa a Wasan 1, Cubs ya tattara kuma ya dauki wasanni uku zuwa daya a kan Wild Card Florida Marlins a cikin Gasar Gasar Gasar Kasa. Florida ta rufe Cubs a cikin Wasan 5, amma Cubs sun koma gida zuwa Wrigley Field tare da matashin ɗan wasan Mark Prior don jagorantar Cubs a Wasan 6 yayin da suka ɗauki 3-0 a cikin 8th inning. A wannan lokacin ne wani abin da ya faru a yanzu ya zama sananne.
ya faru. 'Yan kallo da dama sun yi kokarin kama kwallon da aka yi wa Luis Castillo. Wani magoya bayan Chicago Cubs mai suna Steve Bartman, na Northbrook, Illinois, ya kai ga kwallon kuma ya karkatar da shi daga safar hannu ta Moisés Alou a karo na biyu daga cikin takwas. Alou ya yi fushi da fuska kuma bayan wasan ya bayyana cewa zai kama kwallon. Alou a wani lokaci ya karyata, yana cewa ba zai iya yin wasan ba, amma daga baya ya ce wannan ƙoƙari ne kawai don Bartman ya ji daɗi kuma ya yi imanin cewa ya kamata a manta da duk abin da ya faru. Ba a kira tsangwama a kan wasan ba, kamar yadda aka yanke hukuncin cewa kwallon ya kasance a gefen masu kallo na bango. Daga bisani Prior ya tafi da Castillo. 'Yan wasa biyu daga baya, kuma ga takaicin filin wasan da aka cika, dan wasan tsakiya na Cubs Alex Gonzalez ya yi kuskuren wasa sau biyu, ya cika da tushe. Kuskuren zai haifar da gudu takwas na Florida da kuma nasarar Marlin. Duk da aikawa da Kerry Wood zuwa dutsen da kuma jagorancin jagorancin sau biyu, Cubs ya fadi wasan 7, kuma ya kasa kaiwa gasar cin kofin duniya.