Baseball Rarity: Cubs And White Sox In Playoffs, But Chicago Fans Can't Go To Games

(After a strange, shortened season with no fans at the ballparks, the Major League baseball playoffs are now underway. And this year, there's something else unusual: both Chicago teams are playing in the postseason. It's just the third time that the North Side Cubs and the South Side White Sox reached the playoffs in the same year.

In a normal year, fans on both sides of town would be pouring into the streets or packing into sports bars to celebrate. But this is 2020, a year of mask-wearing and social distancing, and limits on drinking and dining establishments in the city is putting a damper on what could turn out to best year for baseball in Chicago in more than a century.

"It's obviously way quieter. It's definitely weird," says Chicagoan Colleen Gettings, 54. With her mask on, she was sitting with friends at a table spaced far apart from the others in the beer garden at Bernie's Tap and Grill, across the street from Wrigley, watching the Cubs play the crosstown rival White Sox over the final weekend of the season.