#2016 world series game 7 game time full

Kluber, 30, has only pitched on short rest twice in his career - both times this postseason. These days, such things just aren’t done. Kluber is working on short rest for the second consecutive time. At least Chapman had to pitch,” Manager Terry Francona said.įor Cleveland, Corey Kluber will attempt in Game 7 something that hasn’t been done since 1968 by Detroit’s Mickey Lolich: start three games and win all of them in the same World Series. “We wanted to make them use pitching, even in a loss. Say what? Hello, Jon Lester, you’re a reliever now. The Cubs’ main issue is that Manager Joe Maddon doesn’t truly trust anybody in his bullpen except Aroldis Chapman, who got the final out of the seventh inning but also worked the eighth with a 7-2 lead and faced one hitter in the ninth with a 9-2 lead.

#2016 world series game 7 game time full

That’s what may happen, because the Cubs send the NL’s ERA champion, cerebral Kyle Hendricks, to the mound on full rest, and with full confidence, too, after he shut out the Indians for 4⅓ innings in Game 3.

The best news for the Cubs by far was that their dormant heart of the order - Kris Bryant (four hits, including a homer), Anthony Rizzo (three hits with a homer), Ben Zobrist and Russell - went a scorching 11 for 19 with eight runs and all nine RBI.Īfter so long a wait (and decades at a time of lousy play) why shouldn’t everyone get to pop several vest buttons bragging about how the Cubs became the first team since 1985 to overcome a three-games-to-one deficit to grab the title? Out of vast indignity, pride at last. The authentic hairy scary 103-win Cubs were suddenly fully awake in a 9-3 win that will convince some fans that Game 7 will simply be a continuation of this momentum shift.

So now is a fitting time to put the Indians’ distinguished 2016 in perspective, especially after Cleveland got its doors blown off in a Game 6 that, in essence, was over in the third inning when Addison Russell, who’d doubled home two runs on a misplayed flyball in the first inning, hit the first grand slam by a Cub in World Series history for a seven-run lead. All over the Cubs universe, set defibrillators to stun for grandpa in his Ron Santo jersey.

Of course, usually they aren’t due any due.īut because Game 7 of the World Series here on Wednesday night will be the only baseball game played in 2016 that has a chance to be remembered in 2124, we can be certain there will be no lack of discussion of whether the Chicago Cubs win their first title in (. . . CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Indians never get their due.