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2016 — The Chicago Cubs win their first World Series championship since 1908 when Ben Zobrist hits a go-ahead double in the 10th inning, beating the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in a thrilling Game 7 delayed by rain early. Chicago is the first club to overcome a 3-1 Series deficit since the 1985 Kansas City Royals.
Was Oct. 26, 2005 just a dream? It seems like it sometimes, though a long dig through the Sun-Times archives suggest a clinching victory in Houston actually happened.
FOX Sports is counting down the 25 best World Series teams of the 21st Century. At No. 2 is the 2016 Chicago Cubs.
October 14, 1908 - The Chicago Cubs were up 2-0 in Game Five of the 1908 World Series on Oct. 14, 1908, and the Detroit Tigers were looking to score. With two outs and runners on second and third, Wahoo Native Sam Crawford stepped up to the plate.
"I wish everybody could see it," Dansby Swanson said after the Cubs got past the Padres with a 3-1 win. "Full joy. Amazing.”
Most of it was at the low end with rings made out silver with cubic zirconia gems for $299. But for $10,800, there were 108 rings that were as close to the real deal as possible. Although they were 30% smaller, those rings featured white gold, 144 diamonds, 55 sapphires and 13 rubies.
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Forget the World Series. Brewers' Game 5 vs. Cubs is most important game team will play.
The Brewers’ winner-take-all game Saturday against the Chicago Cubs (8:08 p.m. ET, TBS) means just about everything but the Lombardi Trophy to the friendly, cheese-loving, beer-guzzling, Green Bay Packers-adoring folks of Milwaukee. Beat the Cubs on Saturday at American Family Field, and it will be a season revered in Brewers lore for generations.
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Column: Can the Chicago Cubs bounce back and win the NLDS? Here are 7 things that need to happen.
The Chicago Cubs have a massive challenge ahead of them: beating the Milwaukee Brewers in three straight to advance to the NLCS. Can it happen?
The Los Angeles Dodgers have done it. For the second year in a row, the National League powerhouse won the World Series, taking down the Toronto Blue Jays in an epic Game 7 at the