The 2016 baseball season is now to two organizations, which just so happen to be the sport’s most tortured.
The Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs will take baseball’s two longest championship droughts into Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday.
But after winning the American League Championship Series and National League Championship Series respectively, each seemed to craft a blueprint for how to get to October’s Fall Classic.Begin Slideshow
CHICAGO — So, 71 years later, this is what it looks like when the Chicago Cubs storm into the World Series…
Anthony Rizzo hitting everything Clayton Kershaw threw him on the screws: a double, a long ball, a fly ball in the first inning that Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Andrew Toles plumb dropped. Was that a goat impeding his vision?
Kris Bryant hungrily taking a seven-decades-sized bite into Kershaw’s 95 mph cheese and looping an RBI single to right field just two batters into the bottom of the first, immediately flipping the switch from anxiety to anticipation.
Javier Baez alertly doing it ...
Kyle Schwarber's powerful bat has been absent from the Chicago Cubs lineup since the third game of the 2016 season, when the outfielder suffered a torn ACL and LCL. However, he is available and will start for his team's World Series matchup with the Cleveland Indians.
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Schwarber Active vs. Indians
Tuesday, Oct. 25
The Cubs announced Schwarber will be batting fifth and be the designated hitter in Tuesday's lineup against the Indians and starting pitcher Corey Kluber.
Schwarber Comments on Return
Tuesday, Oct. 25
"I'll probably cry at some point today," Schwarber said, per Jeff Passan of Yahoo. When asked when he felt like he ...
The Chicago Cubs acquired Aroldis Chapman because he's a flamethrower.
In the 2016 postseason, he's ignited a disconcerting number of fires.
Yes, Chapman can melt the radar gun with his triple-digit heater, and he's impersonated his unhittable self in stretches.
The recent numbers, however, paint a less flattering picture.
In 6.1 playoff innings with the Cubs, Chapman has allowed six hits, three walks and three earned runs and has converted only three of five save opportunities.
Chicago is up 3-2 to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series, so it's not as if Chapman is destined to become a footnote in the ...
While the Cleveland Indians already punched their ticket to the World Series, the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers continue to battle it out in the NL championship. The Cubbies are just one win away from taking the next step toward breaking a century-long drought.
Chicago's offense broke out of a funk in Game 4 and Game 5 to take a 3-2 series lead after trailing 2-1. The Cubs are favored to win the series with a one-game cushion at their disposal, but the Dodgers have a pair of aces up their sleeve with Clayton Kershaw and Rich Hill set to ...
The Chicago Cubs are one win away from the World Series, and Jon Lester is back among the pantheon of postseason studs.
On Thursday, the Cubs defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-4 at Chavez Ravine to grab a 3-2 lead in the National League Championship Series. Game 6 will be played Saturday at Wrigley Field.
For his part, Lester twirled seven innings of five-hit, one-run ball with one walk and six strikeouts. He got the win, moving his 2016 playoff record to 2-0 and his ERA to 0.86.
Nothing is over until the Cubs bust their century-plus championship drought, as Lester himself noted.
"This ...
Chicago Cubs reliever Carl Edwards Jr. was removed from Game 4 of the National League Championship Series with hamstring tightness, per Carrie Muskat of MLB.com.
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Cubs Lose Key Bullpen Piece
Thursday, Oct. 20
The 25-year-old pitcher came in for the seventh inning but only faced three batters, earning two outs before walking Corey Seager. After the walk, he was replaced by Travis Wood.
Edwards has pitched three innings so far in the postseason, allowing zero runs and only one hit.
In his first real work at the major league level this season, the young pitcher posted a 3.75 ERA in 36 innings. More ...
Fact: The Cubs were shut out for the second straight game on Tuesday night, losing to the Dodgers 6-0. This is the first time in Cubs history that they have been shut out twice in a single postseason.
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CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs led the league this year in, among other things, wins, winning percentage, run differential and multitasking.
Yes, that's right. Multitasking.
Do you feel pretty accomplished when you knock off three things at once? Look at Javier Baez, who this year became just the fourth Cubs player since 1913 with at least 20 starts at second base, third base and shortstop. He also started twice at first base, vacuumed the Cubs clubhouse after each game and refilled the team's Gatorade supply daily.
Well, those last couple of things might be a bit of an exaggeration, but the way Baez ...
The Chicago Cubs enter the National League Championship Series with as much confidence as a team battling a 108-year title drought could possibly have.
Late Tuesday night, it looked like Chicago would be headed home to Wrigley Field to play a pivotal Game 5 against the San Francisco Giants. The Cubbies trailed 5-2 in Game 4 and were just three outs away from dropping their second straight game to the Giants.
Instead, Chicago tacked four runs on the Giants bullpen to take a 6-5 lead, and then closer Aroldis Chapman struck out the side in the bottom half of the inning with ...
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