MLB teamYogi Berra's old adage seldom has seemed as appropriate as it was during the ninth inning of Thursday's showdown at Wrigley Field between the Cubs and Milwaukee.
"It ain't over till it's over" proved to be the perfect rally cry of a MLB team that trailed by four runs with two outs and no one on base in the ninth.

Just like that, the Cubs MLB team staged a stunning comeback to tie the game on Geovany Soto's three-run homer off Salomon Torres and then win, 7-6, in the 12th inning on Derrek Lee's RBI single.

This was something no one could have seen coming, a comeback even more absurd because the Cubs entered the ninth with only three hits off starter Dave Bush and three Brewers relievers. Listless for eight innings, the Cubs hit the Brewers with a stun-gun attack that defied belief.

All team sports information reports that Aramis Ramirez started things off with a double, Jim Edmonds contributed an RBI single, Mark De Rosa singled to right and Soto came up with the big blow that shook the ballpark from its foundation.

After the Cubs blew a chance in the 11th inning, Lee drove in pinch-runner Jason Marquis in the 12th with a two-out single up the middle off Carlos Villanueva that gave the Cubs MLB team their fifth victory in six games and reduced their magic number to clinch the National League Central to two games.

Rich Harden gave up only one hit but walked six in his five innings. Still, he left after 115 pitches with a 2-1 lead because of Edmonds and Ramirez homers.

Then Jeff Samardzija imploded in the Brewers' four-run sixth.

But Soto's homer tied it in the ninth and the stress level increased exponentially on both MLB team sides.

Kerry Wood struck out the side in the 11th before the Cubs stranded runners on the corners in the bottom of the inning. Then J.J. Hardy's leadoff single and Corey Hart's double put runners on second and third with no outs in the 12th, prompting a meeting on the mound between Wood and Piniella.

After Wood escaped the jam, the Brewers brought Villanueva in. He walked Daryle Ward leading off and Marquis entered as a pinch-runner. After Reed Johnson sacrificed and Alfonso Soriano was walked intentionally, Marquis advanced to third on Ryan Theriot's flyout to right. That brought up Lee with the chance to be the hero.

Now the Cubs MLB team have a chance to take the division Friday if they beat St. Louis and Milwaukee loses to Cincinnati later that night.