They would threaten again but not draw any closer, not when Cubs manager Joe Maddon aggressively called on closer Aroldis Chapman with two men on and two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning.Ĭhapman induced a soft groundout to Francisco Lindor – overturned by video review at first base – and then pitched a scoreless eighth inning before walking the lead-off batter of the ninth and exiting. Kipnis’ fifth inning blast – his second of the series – pulled the Indians within five.
“Tomorrow there is obviously an opportunity to break that record.” In the win, Russell tied a World Series record with five RBI. The only Tribe batsmen that had success against him was second baseman Jason Kipnis, who continued his hot hitting in the Fall Classic by going 3-for-4 with a solo home run. Young shortstop Addison Russell opened the game up with a grand slam in the third inning to make it 7-1, affording righty Jake Arrieta more than enough run support to even up the best-of-seven series at three games apiece.Īrrieta, the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, threw 5 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on three hits. Afterwards, one of the two longest championship droughts in baseball history will be broken, either the Cubs’ 108 years or the Indians’ 68 years. The Cubs smoked the Indians, 9-3, forcing the 38th World Series Game 7 in baseball history tonight. In the first inning, that monumental mistake all but guaranteed there would be a winner-take-all baseball game this season. And when centerfielder Tyler Naquin and rightfielder Lonnie Chisenhall – playing alongside each other for the first time all season – let a lazy fly ball drop for two runs, the Indians had a bloody mess on their hands they could not clean up. But that cut became deeper with back-to-back singles after the Bryant home run. It was merely first blood drawn by the Cubs, against a resilient Indians team that somehow, someway finds themselves a win away from the franchise’s first World Series championship in 68 seasons. Bryant hit it over the high wall in left-centerfield. Tomlin, whom the Indians were “thrilled” was pitching Game 6 of the World Series, manager Terry Francona said hours earlier, had retired the first two batters of the game with ease. It was just past 8 o’clock on an unseasonably warm November night in the Midwest, there were thousands upon thousands of people at Progressive Field making noise after noise, and right-hander Josh Tomlin was ahead of Cubs slugger Kris Bryant no balls, two strikes. Game 7 will go down as on of the most epic in baseball history: four hours, 28 minutes of stomach-churning drama that mercifully ended a drought and changed history.CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Indians were one strike away from escaping early damage. A 17-minute rain delay washed away the panic, then World Series MVP Ben Zobrist smacked an RBI double for the lead and Miguel Montero singled in Anthony Rizzo for a 2-run cushion that would be sorely needed as the Indians would not go quietly in the tenth. In the eighth, Rajai Davis of the Indians™ erased the Cubs lead with a 2-run home run which sent the game to extras and Cubs fans to hysteria. The winner-take-all Game 7 featured drama and tension throughout, including two ties and an extra frame of baseball. The Cubs came back from a 3-games-to-1 World Series deficit to end years of frustration, but it was no easy feat. The definitive 2016 World Series™ Game 7 is presented in its entirety, preserving the complete, unedited footage of the game for which Chicago Cubs fans had been waiting 108 years! And that was epic, wasn't it?" – Tom Ricketts, Chairman of the Chicago Cubs™
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