Suddenly, a Cubs championship doesn’t feel as fanciful and far fetched. And this might just be the beginning: Chicago is favored to repeat next season, too. (In addition to coming down to extra innings of Game 7, both teams scored exactly 27 runs in the World Series.) Wire to wire, 2016 was baseball’s Year of the Cubs it carried over into the playoffs as well, even if things weren’t always easy. By Game 7, both power hitting (they smashed three homers) and timely run manufacturing (the winning run scored on a clutch single after being intentionally walked) drove the Cubs’ scoring.Īdd it all up, and the Cubs are finally champions, if by the narrowest of margins. The Cubs averaged 6.7 runs per game as they clawed their way out of the pit, including 8.5 in Games 6 and 7. Cleveland’s pitchers deserved a huge amount of credit for holding the Cubs’ hitters in check, but Chicago’s lineup eventually solved and - more to the point - wore down the Indian hurlers. After scoring 5.0 runs per game during the regular season (third-most in MLB), Chicago averaged a mere 1.8 per game during Games 1 through 4 as they slid into that 3-1 hole.
The flip side of that was the Cubs’ bats finally roaring to life during the team’s furious comeback. Then Andrew Miller, Cleveland’s other unhittable ace - the bullpen edition - succumbed to his own heavy workload, yielding two runs in two-and-a-third innings, the most he’d allowed in an appearance all postseason. Cleveland starter Corey Kluber had been largely untouchable in his previous two World Series starts, but in Game 7 the fatigue finally seemed to set in: He allowed four runs, two by way of the long ball, and struck out none in four innings Wednesday. Hot Takedown Toasts The Cubs' World Series Winįunctionally, the Cubs also won by outlasting the Indians’ brilliant-but-shallow pitching staff. Just like that, the game was tied, and any notion of momentum seemed to favor a Cleveland championship. RKĪnd then there was the three-run lead the Cubs blew in the eighth inning of Game 7, when fireballing closer Aroldis Chapman - fresh off an inexplicable, unnecessary 20-pitch appearance in Game 6 - gave up a double and a home run to the first two batters he faced. At one point, Chicago’s chances of a comeback were just 7.5 percent only six teams ever came back from longer World Series odds. The Cubs also had to overcome a 3-1 series deficit, becoming only the sixth team in World Series history to pull off that feat.
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Chicago needed the full seven games to eliminate a talented, resilient Cleveland Indians team that made it further than any predictions said they would. The Cubs won the World Series early Thursday morning, ending 108 years of championship futility and setting off a Chicago celebration that might last another 108 years.ĭespite dominating the regular season, the Cubs won their long-awaited title in the most drawn-out way possible. A Chicago Cubs world championship used to be the stuff of fiction and fantasy.
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