After the Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals to advance to the National League Championship Series Tuesday night, Kornegay made them a 5-to-2 favorite to win their first World Series in 107 years, and other sports books are expected to follow suit. “This one just gives us a nice date on Saturday”.
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“I will be shocked if they’re not in the World Series or winning it”, Cardinals rookie Stephen Piscotty said. Miguel Montero struck out for out number two, but Hammel shocked the hell out of everyone by drilling the first pitch he saw from Lackey up the middle to bring Castro home and make it a 2-1 game.
“We’re going to celebrate this”, said Rizzo, who homered off Kevin Siegrist to snap a 4-4 tie in the sixth inning. “It’s been a long time coming for this city, and hopefully it’s just a sign of things to come”.
So, here are 8 facts about Chicago Cubs and their momentous win. The Cubs lost, and haven’t played in a World Series since then.
The Chicago Cubs will play against the victor of the Los Angeles Dodgers-New York Mets face off, which for now, the Mets lead 2-1.
Lester is the Cubs’ $155 million man and would relish a Game 1 start in the NLCS, but said he would have no issues starting the second game. “It truly is a special time right now”.
“This is going to be a great run”, Ricketts said. The team set records for most home runs in a postseason, as they powered their way to a convincing defeat of possibly the toughest team in baseball.
The Chicago Cubs have the 3rd best record in baseball this season, 97-65.
In the top of the sixth, Jason Heyward led off the inning with a single against Travis Wood, and Wood was replaced on the hill by Trevor Cahill.
The ball landed on top of the right-field video board. The Cubs used three home runs and eight pitchers to eliminate the St.Louis Cardinals, 6-4, in Game 4 of this best-of-five division series.
Between 1908 and 2015 the Cubs won a single series – the 2003 NLDS – and perhaps that’s more the culprit here than a few stigma of the Cubs just not being able to win the big one. His lone postseason appearance came on Friday, when he allowed three runs in 7 1/3 innings during a 4-0 loss in the NLDS opener. He exited after giving up a leadoff walk to Jhonny Peralta in the fourth.
Seven relievers combined to hold the Cardinals to two more runs the rest of the way.
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Schwarber, 22, has hit three postseason home runs, including Tuesday’s monster shot in the seventh inning that traveled 438 feet, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
