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Sy_Noe said:
That ain’t happening now. Cubs have to win 3 of 4 now and 2 of those would be back in Cleveland. What a pitching matchup it was for G3 and Josh Tomlin and the Indians pen held the Cubs scoreless. Would G4 vs Corey Kluber be considered a must win for the Cubbies now? If they lose to Kluber again, they then would need to win 3 straight including back to back games in Cleveland.
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Yes, they lost the home field advantage they had after G2.

Cleveland has an impressive bullpen, what else can one say?
 
ProVobis said:
Yes, they lost the home field advantage they had after G2.

Cleveland has an impressive bullpen, what else can one say?
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Well one could also say Kluber and Tomlin held the Cubs scoreless before Cleveland went to the bullpen which indeed also held them scoreless the rest of the way in the 2 shutouts. 😃

So far I do have to take my hat off to the managing being done by Terry Francona. He is short his #2 and #3 starting pitchers, Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar. Salazar has come back but only in the pen due to just coming off the DL. So the Cubs are actually not even facing a Cleveland team at full strength. The Cubs have to win the next 2 and then win a G6 or 7 in Cleveland. I don’t see them winning 3 in a row and taking 2 straight in front of a Cleveland crowd. Cleveland’s Cavs came back down 3-1 in basketball, but did not have to win back to back on the road to do it. Who knows though. Kluber is back on short rest and the Cubbies have now seen him once. So a Cubs win tonight in G4 is not out of the question. But they might need to jump on him before Francona goes to the pen. Almost got to Allen though at the end of G3 and anyone can have an occasional unusually off day so we shall know the truth soon enough. With 2 Cubs wins in G4 and 5, it could still go 7.
 
Sy_Noe said:
Well one could also say Kluber and Tomlin held the Cubs scoreless before Cleveland went to the bullpen which indeed also held them scoreless the rest of the way in the 2 shutouts. 😃

So far I do have to take my hat off to the managing being done by Terry Francona. He is short his #2 and #3 starting pitchers, Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar. Salazar has come back but only in the pen due to just coming off the DL. So the Cubs are actually not even facing a Cleveland team at full strength. The Cubs have to win the next 2 and then win a G6 or 7 in Cleveland. I don’t see them winning 3 in a row and taking 2 straight in front of a Cleveland crowd. Cleveland’s Cavs came back down 3-1 in basketball, but did not have to win back to back on the road to do it. Who knows though. Kluber is back on short rest and the Cubbies have now seen him once. So a Cubs win tonight in G4 is not out of the question. But they might need to jump on him before Francona goes to the pen. Almost got to Allen though at the end of G3 and anyone can have an occasional unusually off day so we shall know the truth soon enough. With 2 Cubs wins in G4 and 5, it could still go 7.
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Down 3 games to one. Or up 3 games to one, depending on how you look at it.

Homer in the 2nd inning was the first by a visiting player in a Wrigley Field World Series game since Babe Ruth. Seriously.
 
ProVobis said:
Down 3 games to one. Or up 3 games to one, depending on how you look at it.

Homer in the 2nd inning was the first by a visiting player in a Wrigley Field World Series game since Babe Ruth. Seriously.
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I’m down 3 and very sad, and losing hope.:crying:
 
ProVobis said:
Down 3 games to one. Or up 3 games to one, depending on how you look at it.

Homer in the 2nd inning was the first by a visiting player in a Wrigley Field World Series game since Babe Ruth. Seriously.
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For those looking at it as down 3-1, I offer this glimmer of hope. It’s been done twice before in a best of 7 World Series when a team down 3-1 came back to win the Series including the final 2 games on the road. The 1958 Yankees and the 1968 Tigers.

m.mlb.com/news/article/3620268//
 
I may get to watch more baseball in my lifetime!!!

Is it too much to hope the tribe can close out Chicago in Chicago! I would love a few new memes if which there will be plenty!!!
 
Hoosier_Daddy said:
I may get to watch more baseball in my lifetime!!!

Is it too much to hope the tribe can close out Chicago in Chicago! I would love a few new memes if which there will be plenty!!!
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Tribe second baseman Jason Kipnis was asked in a postgame interview following the Tribe’s big win in G4 what it would be like to close it out at Wrigley where he grew up attending games. He replied he didn’t know. Then when asked if he had thought about it, Kip said he was starting to now. As a long time Tribe fan who in 1948 was still years away from being born, thinking about winning whether in Chicago or Cleveland, and thinking about my mother who used to take me to Tribe games, and thinking of all the many games I’ve attended over the years, brought tears to my eyes. Wish my mom could see it but mostly tears of joy. 1G to win yet though and it could still go 7.
 
Sy_Noe said:
Tribe second baseman Jason Kipnis was asked in a postgame interview following the Tribe’s big win in G4 what it would be like to close it out at Wrigley where he grew up attending games. He replied he didn’t know. Then when asked if he had thought about it, Kip said he was starting to now. As a long time Tribe fan who in 1948 was still years away from being born, thinking about winning whether in Chicago or Cleveland, and thinking about my mother who used to take me to Tribe games, and thinking of all the many games I’ve attended over the years, brought tears to my eyes. Wish my mom could see it but mostly tears of joy. 1G to win yet though and it could still go 7.
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If it goes back to Cleveland, Schwarber will be in the lineup.
 
ProVobis said:
Enjoy your championship. 🙂
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Oh I didn’t have a dog in the race. To be truthful, I know this will sound silly, but I sorta of wanted for the World Series to end in a draw and have Co-Champions. End 2 droughts.
 
chero23 said:
Oh I didn’t have a dog in the race. To be truthful, I know this will sound silly, but I sorta of wanted for the World Series to end in a draw and have Co-Champions. End 2 droughts.
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I feel exactly the same way except NO champions.
It ends with a draw, no champion and mlb apologizes to every fan for the poor quality of the sport and refunds money and hands out puppies to every fan of the game.
 
chero23 said:
Oh I didn’t have a dog in the race. To be truthful, I know this will sound silly, but I sorta of wanted for the World Series to end in a draw and have Co-Champions. End 2 droughts.
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Same here. I want both of them to win. I want the loser to win it all next year. This is of course if my Diamondbacks can not make it there 😉
 
We are not done yet. Cubs win game 5 3-2. God is testing our faith. Instead of “Wait until next year,” it is wait until Tuesday with Jake Arrieta.🙂
 
ProVobis said:
If it goes back to Cleveland, Schwarber will be in the lineup.
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Yes he is going to be as will Josh Tomlin and a very well rested Andrew Miller and if it goes 7 which I think is a possibility with Arrieta, then also in the lineup will be potential Series MVP Corey Kluber. But yes I know Joe Buck and John Smoltz are pulling for Schwarber. 😃
 
chero23 said:
But the Indians have been so dominant. They have not let the hostile environment of wrigley field get to them.
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Has Wrigley been hostile? I really don’t know, I just can’t watch a baseball game, way to short an attention span. The only sports anyone here ever watches are hockey and (oddly) Australian Rules Football. It’s sort of new thing, a brand new thing at our house to follow baseball at all, so we just check in on the score on-line. Type in the Cubs and see what the score is.
 
zaffiroborant said:
Has Wrigley been hostile? I really don’t know, I just can’t watch a baseball game, way to short an attention span. The only sports anyone here ever watches are hockey and (oddly) Australian Rules Football. It’s sort of new thing, a brand new thing at our house to follow baseball at all, so we just check in on the score on-line. Type in the Cubs and see what the score is.
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I’m thinking Chero means “hostile” in the sense of an opposing crowd. I haven’t seen any violence or anyone throwing things at Cleveland players if that’s what you mean by “hostile”.
 
777rak said:
Same here. I want both of them to win. I want the loser to win it all next year. This is of course if my Diamondbacks can not make it there 😉
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The Dbacks were disappointing to me this year. I had picked this Series in the spring but I had AZ winning the NL west. I do think the loser has a shot next yr.
 
Sy_Noe said:
Yes he is going to be as will Josh Tomlin and a very well rested Andrew Miller and if it goes 7 which I think is a possibility with Arrieta, then also in the lineup will be potential Series MVP Corey Kluber. But yes I know Joe Buck and John Smoltz are pulling for Schwarber. 😃
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Perhaps one of the reasons Schwarber’s name is mentioned so often is that 2015 season stats show that his very presence in the lineup added 2-3 runs per game ON THE AVERAGE for the team. (He didn’t play every game when he was breaking in.)

Against Cleveland’s almost unhittable pitching, not to mention a 3 games to 2 lead, you need all the help you can get. 🙂
 
If you want some deep in the weeds trivia on the Cubs, they can be fast starters. Three members of their roster homered in their first Major League at bat, Heyward, Soler, and Contreras(first pitch). It has to be mostly down hill after that.🙂

What really matters this year is how they finish. I am not giving up yet.
 
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