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Paul Sullivan: Cubs' series clincher over Nationals was one for the books

CHICAGO - What words best describe how fans felt after the Cubs outlasted the Nationals, 9-8, last October in Game 5 of the National League Division Series?

Relieved, exhilarated or exhausted?

Inspired or amazed?

Comfortably numb?

No matter what adjectives are chosen, Cubs fans had every right to feel that way.

In a roller-coaster season of epic highs and lows, that series-clinching, 4-hour, 37-minute affair on a raw, windy night at Nationals Park was easily the Cubs' craziest game of the year, an instant classic that will be remembered in team lore for years to come.

It wasn't exactly pretty, but you couldn't take your eyes off it if you

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