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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.
The Indians then took Game 4 by a 7–2 score to go up 3–1 in the series. In Game 5, the Cubs prevailed by a 3–2 score thanks to excellent pitching performances from Jon Lester and Aroldis Chapman to win their first home World Series game since 1945, sending the series back to Cleveland. In Game 6, the Cubs blew out the Indians, 9–3, to ...
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]
Yankees will live to fight another day after avoiding a World Series sweep with a win in Game 4. ... final score: This was a 5-4 game after five innings and 6-4 into the eighth. ... since the 10th ...
The Texas Rangers began their title defense with a 10th inning win against the Cubs. ... but Heim deposited the ball into center field to end the game. David Robertson (1-0) worked out of a bases ...
The Brewers' NL Central lead over the Cubs was trimmed to 3 1/2 games. Chicago's 10th-inning outburst helped Counsell get a measure of revenge one day after the Cubs lost 5-1 in his return to ...
Dexter Fowler the first player ever to lead off a World Series Game 7 with a home run. [48] The Cubs are the first Major League Baseball team to come back from a 3–1 series deficit to win the World Series since the 1985 Royals and the first since the 1979 Pirates to do so by winning Games 6 & 7 on the road. Most recent World Series game seven ...
The 1906 Cubs won 116 games, finishing 116–36 and posting a modern-era record winning percentage of .763, before losing the World Series to the Chicago White Sox ("The Hitless Wonders") by four games to two. The Cubs won back-to-back World Series championships in 1907 and 1908, becoming the first major league team to play in three consecutive ...