What if the Cubs had won NLCS Game 6 in 2003?

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesYou all know what happened in this game and there’s no need to belabor it for the gazillionth time.

Instead, let me write a bit of alternate history starting from what was the actual key moment in the game.

It’s the top of the eighth and there’s one out. Luis Castillo has walked and gone to second on a wild pitch and Ivan Rodriguez singles him in to make it 3-1 Cubs.

Those things actually happened. Now let’s change history.

Dusty Baker, instead of sitting on his butt, comes out of the dugout at this point to take out Mark Prior, who had thrown 117 pitches. (Obviously you’d never do this today, let a starter go that long.)

In comes Joe Borowski, who had time…