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The 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season. The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians , the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history.
2016 World Series. In American Major League Baseball, the Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians 8–7 in 10 innings, winning the Series 4–3 and claiming their first MLB title since 1908. The Cubs' Ben Zobrist is named series MVP. Cubs win game 7 and the title in the early hours of November 3rd, 2016. (AP via ESPN)
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
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The Cubs became the sixth team in World Series history to overcome a 3–1 series deficit to win the title, and the first team to do so since the Kansas City Royals in 1985. In Cleveland, the Indians took Game 1 in a 6–0 shutout, while in Game 2, the Cubs prevailed by a 5–1 score to win their first World Series game since 1945 and even the ...
October 25 – November 2: 2016 World Series. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians, 4–3 in games played, to win their third World Series title. Notably, this ended the longest championship drought in the history of North American sports at 108 years.
World Series Team Ref. Orlando Hernández Cuba: Starting pitcher 1992 Barcelona: 1998: New York Yankees [1] [2] 1999: New York Yankees: 2000: New York Yankees: 2005: Chicago White Sox: José Contreras Cuba: Starting pitcher 1996 Atlanta: 2005: Chicago White Sox [1] [3] Pat Borders United States: Catcher 2000 Sydney: 1992: Toronto Blue Jays [1 ...
The Diamondbacks won the regular season series 3–1, splitting a two-game series in May at Globe Life Field, and sweeping the Rangers at Chase Field in August. [5] This was the third time in World Series history that the two teams that faced each other were both from the Expansion era, the first coming in 2015 [6] and the second in 2019. [7]