Lovable losers no more, Chicago Cubs are World Series Champions again

 

Baseball fans all over the world witnessed a historic Game Seven Wednesday night after the Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in the 10th inning by a score of 8-7 to claim their first World Series championship since 1908.

The Cubs came into the series as heavy favourites but quickly found themselves down three games to one. They had to battle their way back and that they did.

The Cubs came alive early Wednesday night with a lead off home-run by Dexter Fowler, which was the first lead off home-run in World Series Game Seven history. The Cubs would go on to dominate the early stages of the game until Indians outfielder Rajai Davis tied it with a two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning.

The Cubs and Indians were forced into extra innings tied at six. They faced a roughly 25 minute rain delay, during which Cubs’ outfielder Jason Heyward called for a players only meeting to “remind the club who they were.” The Cubs came into the tenth inning with bats blazing and scored two runs. They would hold the Indians to only one run in their half of the inning after the pair known as Bryzzo (Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo) connected from third base to first to make the final out and claim their first World Series championship in 108 years. Cubs’ Ben Zobrist was named World Series MVP.

The Cubs will no longer be known as the lovable losers the longest championship drought in sports history is over and Chicago will party like it’s 1908. However, the Indians who were up 3-1 on the Cubs in the series now carry a little more baggage with their history and haven’t won since 1948, now the longest active drought in the MLB.

The game will go down in history for being one of the greatest World Series games of all-time. So much on the line, a drought of over a century verses one of many decades. But, in the end, the Chicago Cubs are champions again.