I don’t think there’s any way we win the game without it. Said first baseman Anthony Rizzo, “That rain delay was the most important thing to happen to the Chicago Cubs in the past 100 years. Game 7 of the 2016 World Series was a classic between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs, with Chicago prevailing in 10 innings for their first championship since 1908. Thats right, the Chicago Cubs My 10-year-old or 16-year-old self would have been so elated to find out the Cubs would be in a World Series, much. “I said before the Series that a sweep wouldn’t do it,” said Cubs principal owner Tom Ricketts. World Series Game 7 Long time no sports posts, but I had to memorialize the historic Game 7 World Series game tonight between the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs. But how it happened was nothing short of astonishing. That such a development could be real is amazing enough. The last time anybody spoke such words, Joshua Chamberlain, a hero at the Battle of Gettysburg, was alive. (Roger Morales/Chicago Tribune) (Chicago Tribune) CLEVELAND Kris Bryant. Shout it from the rooftops of Waveland and Sheffield. A day in the life of Chicago, after 108 years of waiting, the Cubs won the 2016 World Series. That’s right: The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions. In game 5, Cleveland won a dramatic 5-4 victory by the margin of a late-inning Jim Thome home run, as the Indians defeated the Braves Cy Young Award-winning. In the Indians previous World Series appearance, they were a double-play grounder from winning the 1997 title before losing Game 7 in 11 innings to the Marlins. The Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday night in a dramatic. How this story differs from all the others over the previous 107 years is that it ends with Chicago winning the World Series. For the first time in 108 years, the Chicago Cubs are the world champions of baseball. What happened next is a story that will be told a hundred years from now, just as the oral history of the last century overflowed with tales of Babe Ruth’s called shot, flubbed grounders, pet goats, black cats, deflected foul balls and assorted other misdeeds and pratfalls that defined Cubs baseball. The Cubs won 8-7 in 10 innings to win the series 4-3. The deep, purposeful voice rang out loudly. The Chicago Cubs celebrate after defeating the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the World Series on Thursday, November 3.
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