The game went into extra innings but not before a brief rainstorm caused a 17-minute delay. “What a roller coaster,” Cubs GM said of the back-and-forth game, though he could easily have been talking about the series. Montgomery got Martinez to ground to third to finally, at long last, secure the title and set off a celebration on the field and a just-as-wild party in the stands as it seemed, and sounded, as if about half the crowd in attendance were Cubs fans. “You wouldn’t really expect it any other way.”Īfter the Cubs scored twice in the top of the 10th, the Indians scored once in the bottom half, with Cubs manager Joe Maddon bringing on lefty Mike Montgomery to face Michael Martinez, inserted for defense the previous inning. “Nothing’s been easy, nothing’s been given to us,” said Jon Lester, who allowed two runs (one earned) over three innings of relief.
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In ending the longest title drought in professional sports, the Cubs, whose complete top-to-bottom roster helped them win an MLB-best 103 games in the regular season, finished off a rally from three-games-to-one down in the Series. I just like the idea when a Cubs fan walks into the office tomorrow and someone asks when’s the last time the Cubs won the World Series, you can say, ‘yesterday.’’
And maybe they’ll let you down for a 100 years in a row, and we did. “And like all members of the family, you love them but sometimes they let you down. “The Cubs aren’t just a team, they’re a member of your family,” Ricketts said. Ricketts attended the University of Chicago and is a longtime Cubs fan.
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