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This week in Cubs history: 20 years ago, the Cubs and Brewers played a series for the ages

Let’s take a break for a bit from thinking about this afternoon’s rainout makeup game against the Nationals and look back to a memorable Wrigley Field series played 20 years ago this week.

This week’s Cubs/Brewers series was well-played, and had postseason implications for both teams.

Two decades ago, these two clubs played a series that, while it meant little for the also-ran Brewers, had high postseason meaning for the Cubs.

1998 was the first year the Brewers were a National League team, and so the first time they had played as division rivals (they had played an interleague series the year before, when Milwaukee was still an A.