“The billy goat is dead!” The celebration of the Cubs’ first World Series title since 1908 might last until 2108.
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They might even make a movie out of it, though they’ll have to write a new script.
“It happened. It happened”. “Chicago, we gave you a world championship. I can’t believe it”. The Cubs got their title now.
Thousands of Cubs fans hugged each other and waved their white flags with the team’s iconic blue “W”.
Lovable losers for generations, the Cubs almost let this one get away, too.
Closer Aroldis Chapman, summoned to protect a three-run lead with four outs to go, wept in the dugout after allowing an RBI double by Brandon Guyer and game-tying two-run homer by Rajai Davis in the eighth.
Miguel Montero – who felt so lost at the plate and in the three-catcher shuffle that he wondered if the Cubs would simply release him this summer – singled into left field to drive in the insurance run.
Fans will line the streets Friday for a parade to honor the World Series champion Chicago Cubs.
“This is an epic game”. “Well?” he said. I called my Dad, my wife.
“They never quit, either”, Zobrist said.
World Series favorites since spring training, Chicago led the majors with 103 wins this season.
While the Cubs at last ended baseball’s longest championship drought, several other teams are still trying to get over the hump. Bryant, one of Chicago’s young stars, began to celebrate even before fielding a grounder by Michael Martinez to third base and throwing it across to Rizzo for the last out.
“That’s the best”, Lindor said. It has been 37-years since the Pittsburgh Pirates had a similar World Series victory against the Baltimore Orioles in 1979.
That is, after all, exactly what Epstein did after joining the Boston Red Sox in 2002.
Brown told NBC 5 Block is a “great member of my class” and said “her letter was among the most memorable and forthright explanations for missing a class that I’ve received in 20 years of teaching”. Sixteen years after their Super Bowl loss in 2000, the Titans have made the playoffs just five times.
And the oldest to be hoisted on the shoulders of Cubs teammates. “It’s just amusing. I wrote this thing and it came true and everybody’s going insane”.
Yeah, he’s a pretty big Cubs fan. “It’s going to hurt”.
With Eddie Robinson – the last living member from that ’48 title team – in attendance, and LeBron James and the National Basketball Association champion Cavaliers coming over from Quicken Loans Arena after they beat Houston, Cleveland was poised to have a night to remember like the one just 134 days ago in June when the Cavs ended the city’s 52-year championship dry spell. You see, in 2014 Fraraccio correctly predicted the Cubs and Indians would be tied in extra innings in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series. And the way things look, it will not take 108 years for the Cubs to win their next one.
Tomlin was charged with six runs over 2 1/3 innings. The Indians haven’t won since 1948. Anthony Rizzo was intentionally walked. He promptly singled, scoring Guyer.
The closer he seemingly couldn’t wait to put in every game of this World Series was ripe for the picking, and that was Maddon’s fault, too. But everybody wants to say, and people are saying that I’m famous – I’m not famous. President Barack Obama tweeted.
Give some of the credit to an intervention from above, when the baseball gods finally decided the Cubs had suffered enough and interrupted the game just as it was going into the 10th inning. When the tarp came on the field before the start of the 10, it seemed like the cruelest of paradoxes: Rain was prolonging two historic droughts. He won a title a year ago as a member of the Kansas City Royals. Many fans took turns writing their names and words of congratulations in chalk on Wrigley Field’s brick walls. Wear them with pride Cubs fans. When Tyler Naquin swung and missed on a 1-2 pitch, the Cubs were out of danger and on their way.
Managers Terry Francona and Joe Maddon have made creative use of their bullpens in the World Series, and Game 7 could provide another opportunity. The first title – like the one Zobrist won with the Royals – is often the best but Zobrist will not soon forget this series.
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“It was just loud at there”, Naquin said. “Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. For me, there’s always next year”.
