CLEVELAND — After a 108-year wait to get a World Series championship, the Cubs needed to wait just a little longer and the brief rain delay came at exactly the ideal time to get 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 at a two-run 10th that raised the Cubs into a 8-7 victory over the Indians on Wednesday night in Game 7.
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“It was like a heavyweight fight, guy,” explained Zobrist, who had been named World Series MVP. “Only blow for blow, everyone playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can’t believe we are finally standing, after 108 decades, finally able to hoist the trophy.”
Game 7 of a string in almost any game is significant, but this was more than a baseball match to Cubs fans. This win ended more than a century of frustration as the Cubs won their first championship ending the longest drought in sports. This was for Ernie and Ronnie and Billy and many more.
“It’s really great for our whole Cub-dom to get beyond this moment and continue to proceed,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said,”because today, dependent on the young players we have in this organization, we have an opportunity to be great for quite a while, and without any constraints, with no 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 from the eighth, tying the match at 6 to Rajai Davis’ two-run homer.
The Cubs are the first team to come back from a three-games-to-one deficit and win Games 6 and 7 on the road as the 1979 Pirates.
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