The Chicago Cubs won for their 103rd game Sunday afternoon when they scored four runs in the top of the ninth inning to beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-4.
On the final day of the regular season when wild-card spots were being decided in both leagues, the Cubs' victory was as meaningless as any other game that didn't have playoff implications.
Chicago, after all, clinched the National League Central title more than two weeks ago and has been counting down to the start of the playoffs ever since.
The Cubs found something to celebrate, anyway.
Sunday's victory was No. 200 for Manager Joe Maddon in 324 regular-season games with the Cubs, the most victories for a Cubs manager in back-to-back seasons since Frank Chance won 208 games, without a world championship, in 1909 and 1910.
Cubs players soaked Maddon with ice water in his office at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati.
Maddon, who sometimes quips as well as he manages, was Yogi on the spot.
"Man, cold water is cold," Maddon said, before adding, "103 is a nice, round number. I'll take it."
There will be more refrains coming from Maddon in the coming days, with Cubs beginning postseason play Friday night against the winner of the New York-San Francisco wild-card playoff in the five-game National League division series, which the Cubs have won twice since 2003.
The Cubs, however, are winless in four appearances in the NL Championship Series since 1984.
Never mind the fact that the Cubs haven't won the World Series in 108 years, they haven't been in one for 71 years.
Maddon, well aware of the outside factors, is trying to keep the Cubs' routine simple, even to the point of not holding a pre-series scouting meeting for hitters until hours before the Cubs' first playoff game.
"I want them to go out there with a clear and free mind," Maddon said. "There's no information right now that's above and beyond pertinent. You might grab a nugget or two. I'm all about the nugget.
"But I don't want them carrying anything differently than you've been seeing them play and winning [103] games. I don't want them to be any different."
We'll see about that.
Turner over
The Atlanta Braves turned out the lights on Turner Field on Sunday evening, making it one of the newest parks to ever bid farewell to a major-league team.
Even the regrettable cookie-cutter multipurpose stadiums that sprouted up in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the early 1970s, made it to age 30.
Turner Field, which opened in 1997, isn't even as old as Braves rookie shortstop Dansby Swanson, who was born in 1994 in suburban Kennesaw, Ga.
"It's a little bit surreal," Swanson said. "This was pretty much my whole life, what I can remember. You can't really put it into words. I don't know if I've even allowed myself to think about what's going on today and this whole year."
QUIZ
How many regular-season games did the Cubs win in 1908, the last time they won the World Series?
ANSWER
99 (150-game season)
Sports on 10/04/2016