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After 108 years of waiting, the Chicago Cubs finally ended their World Series championship drought with an 8-7 Game 7 win over the Cleveland Indians Wednesday, and a raucous celebration is sure to follow in the Windy City.
According to Danny Ecker of ChicagoBusiness.com, the Cubbies' championship parade will take place Friday at a time yet to be determined. Television and live-streaming details will be revealed later as well.
Ecker also reported that the parade route will take Cubs players, coaches and management from Wrigley Field to Grant Park.
While those involved are likely to go with the flow, the Cubs provided a preview of ...
The 108-year wait is over as the Chicago Cubs are finally World Series champions. What will follow is a celebration that should match or exceed any we have seen in decades.
While Chicago hadn't even been in the World Series since 1945, the squad showed great resolve in the final round after going down 3-1 through four games. The team with the best record in baseball during the regular season bounced back with three straight wins, capturing the first championship since 1908.
The 8-7 win in Game 7 sealed the victory with Ben Zobrist taking home the award for Most Valuable Player.
Now ...
The Chicago Cubs and their diehard fans enjoyed a celebration befitting the long-awaited end of the team's 108-year championship drought early Thursday morning as the team completed a memorable World Series comeback by defeating the Cleveland Indians on the road in Game 7.
Michael Martinez made the final out as his slow chopper to third was picked off the slick grass by Kris Bryant and fired across the diamond to Anthony Rizzo, who slyly slipped the ball into his back pocket as the celebration erupted in both Cleveland and Chicago.
It's a moment many Cubs fans have waited decades to witness. They ...
Fact: The Chicago Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in 10 innings on Wednesday night, giving the franchise its first World Series title since 1908.
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The better team won.
After all the talk of curses and droughts, and all the angst about which manager shouldn't have used which pitcher at which point, it came down to simple baseball logic. The Chicago Cubs had more dependable starting pitchers and more productive stars.
They have the World Series title they deserve, and they have a more-than-memorable Game 7 to talk about for the next 108 years.
And here at Bleacher Report, we have World Series awards I started working on Sunday, when the Cleveland Indians had a 3-1 series lead. As you might imagine, it looked a little different then.
It ...
You can exhale, Chicago Cubs fans. It finally happened.
After 108 years of waiting, you watched your team storm the field and hoist a trophy. You watched the Cubbies win the final game of the postseason 8-7 Wednesday night at Progressive Field.
You did not have to wait until next year.
It wasn't easy. The Cleveland Indians kept pushing back. They came awfully close, in fact, to turning Cubs skipper Joe Maddon and closer Aroldis Chapman into a pair of goats, to invoke the Windy City's least favorite barnyard creature.
In the end, Chicago's heroics prevailed against the Tribe and Mother Nature. Just barely.
Things ...
The Chicago Cubs won their first World Series since 1908, and it only feels appropriate that they put their dedicated fans through one of the most back-and-forth, stress-inducing baseball games in recent memory.
They prevailed, 8-7, against the Cleveland Indians in Wednesday's Game 7 at Progressive Field in a 10-inning battle that saw a dramatic game-tying home run off Aroldis Chapman from Cleveland's Rajai Davis in the eighth, a rain delay after the ninth and three combined runs in that extra inning.
Ben Zobrist notched an RBI double in the 10th and earned World Series MVP honors. The team shared him accepting ...
Ben Zobrist has been named Most Valuable Player of the 2016 World Series while helping the Chicago Cubs secure their first title since 1908.
The outfielder had the game-winning RBI double in the 10th inning of the dramatic Game 7 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
Baseball Reference noted the historical importance of the game-winning hit:
He also finished the series batting .357 with a .419 on-base percentage, getting a hit in six of the seven games.
Zobrist has now won back-to-back titles after winning the World Series with the Kansas City Royals last season.
ESPN Stats and Info provided an interesting note on the veteran ...
Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell smacked a bases-clearing long ball in the third inning of Tuesday's Game 6 of the 2016 World Series, becoming the first-ever player at his position to hit a grand slam on baseball's largest stage, per MLB Stat of the Day.
With the Cubs already nursing a 3-0 lead on the strength of a three-run first inning, Russell stepped up to the plate against Cleveland Indians reliever Dan Otero with the bases loaded and one out in the top of the third.
Russell was the first batter Otero faced upon replacing ineffective starting pitcher Josh Tomlin, who was ...
The Chicago Cubs have clawed back from the brink of elimination and are now one win away from their first World Series title in 108 years.
So, of course they're the ones everyone is second-guessing at the moment.
After beating the Cleveland Indians in a 3-2 nail-biter at Wrigley Field in Game 5, the Cubs took control of Game 6 at Progressive Field with seven early runs en route to a 9-3 romp.
Like that, Cleveland's 3-1 series lead is gone. All the Cubs need to complete their comeback is a few runs and 27 outs in Game 7 on Wednesday.
That leads us to ...
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