CLEVELAND — After a 108-year wait to get a World Series championship, the Cubs needed to wait just a little longer and the short rain delay came at precisely the right time for Jason Heyward to give the players a pep talk.
A 17-minute delay followed the ninth inning, then Ben Zobrist smacked a tiebreaking RBI double in a two-run 10th that raised the Cubs to an 8-7 victory over the Indians on Wednesday night in Game 7.
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“It was just like a heavyweight fight, guy,” said Zobrist, who had been named World Series MVP. “Only blow for blow, everyone playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up , and I can’t believe we’re finally status, after 108 years, eventually able to hoist the trophy.”
Game 7 of a series in any game is important, but this was a baseball game to Cubs fans. This win ended over a century of frustration as the Cubs won their first championship since 1908, ending the longest drought in professional sports. This was for Ronnie and Ernie and Billy and a Lot More.
“It’s really great for our entire Cub-dom to get beyond this instant and continue to move forward,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said,”because now, dependent on the young players we have in this business, we have an chance to be good for quite a while, and with no limitations, without any of the negative dialog.”
Dexter Fowler, Javier Baez and David Ross each homered, and the Cubs had leads of 5-1 and 6-3, but the Indians rallied against Aroldis Chapman in the eighth, tying the game at 6 to Rajai Davis’ two-run homer.
The Cubs are the first team to return from a three-games-to-one shortage and win Games 6 and 7 on the road as the 1979 Pirates.
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