A few days ago, the Cubs were down three games to one to the Indians in the World Series, and they looked like they deserved to be down three games to one.  And then the Cubs did what they've done all year: win.  Which brought us to tonight: the Indians were throwing Josh Tomlin, who made the Boys in Blue look silly earlier.  And they were back in Cleveland, in front of a full house at what might be the loudest stadium in baseball.  Cubs fans everywhere were torqued down so tight it was hard to breathe.  The tension was unbearable.  For two batters.  Then Kris Bryant came up.

433 feet later, the Cubs had the lead.  By the end of the first inning, the Cubs had scored three runs and Cubs fans everywhere began to relax slightly.  By the time Addison Russell hit a grand slam in the third to make it 7-0, Cubs fans began to smile grimly.  One game for all the marbles on Wednesday.  The Indians will send their ace Corey Kluber out on short rest to face the Cubs Kyle Hendricks, 2016's ERA champion, going on normal rest.  I like those odds.

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1 Down to the wire it goes. What an amazing run!

Posted by: GreyDuck at November 02, 2016 07:29 AM (rKFiU)

2 The gods of baseball wouldn't have had it any other way.

Posted by: Avatar at November 02, 2016 01:20 PM (v29Tn)

3 GO CUBS!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 02, 2016 08:11 PM (PiXy!)

4 Good grief.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 02, 2016 09:54 PM (PiXy!)

5 Congratulations, Chicago. So wonderful.

Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at November 02, 2016 10:54 PM (S0Svy)

6 I couldn't listen or watch.  I just checked the score every 30 minutes.

Posted by: Ben at November 02, 2016 11:17 PM (S4UJw)

7 RickC, I deleted your comment for posting a raw URL.  You know better than that.  I know you KNOW better than that.  Don't do it again.

Posted by: Wonderduck at November 03, 2016 05:31 PM (vZvpB)

8 Dammit, I used the link button in the tool bar.  I did NOT post a raw link.

Posted by: Rick C at November 03, 2016 10:08 PM (ITnFO)

9 The editor has some glitches in recent browsers.  I'll see if there's an update.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 04, 2016 04:59 AM (PiXy!)

10 BTW, I do apologize for cussing.  That wasn't aimed at you, just frustration at the link insertion apparently not working right.
Pixy, I would've been using the latest Chrome or Edge, probably the former.

Posted by: Rick C at November 04, 2016 07:20 AM (ECH2/)

11 "Dammit" in response to computer software isn't cussing, it's punctuation.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 04, 2016 06:12 PM (PiXy!)

12 Profanity is the one language all programmers speak.

Posted by: Mauser at November 06, 2016 07:07 PM (5Ktpu)

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