World Series Cubs beat Indians in epic and historic World Series Game 7. The drought, as all eventually do, ended with help from above. Rain, glorious cool rain on a strangely warm November evening, fell on Progressive Field in Cleveland just as the Cubs were about to flush away their 1. Last 3 Outs Of 2016 World Series' title='Last 3 Outs Of 2016 World Series' />World Series title, in their most harrowing manner yet. The rain fell not in a deluge or in buckets, but in a gentle spray, as if the timer on heavens sprinklers had kicked in. It fell with the minimal amount of force necessary to coax umpires into stopping the seventh game of the 1. World Series just after nine innings had been completed in a 66 tie. Grounds crew personnel began the choreography of pulling the tarpaulin over the infield. Both teams repaired to their clubhouses to wait out the delay. The last players to leave the Cubs dugout were reliever Aroldis Chapman and catcher Willson Contreras. Watch Cracker Bag Mediafire there. The 2. 8 year old Chapman throws a baseball harder than any man alive. Contreras walked by his side with an arm around Chapmans broad shoulders. The woeful picture did well to capture the sentiment of Cubs Nation at the moment, a brotherhood of tears and misery. It was Chapman who in the previous inning, with Chicago four outs away from the title and ahead 63, had allowed a run scoring double and a two run homer to the first two batters he faced, Brandon Guyer and Rajai Davis. The lead and any semblance of optimism Cubs fans can allow themselves dissipated that quickly. Guys, weight roomWont take longThe deep, purposeful voice rang out loudly. What happened next is a story that will be told a hundred years from now, just as the oral history of the last century overflowed with tales of Babe Ruths called shot, flubbed grounders, pet goats, black cats, deflected foul balls and assorted other misdeeds and pratfalls that defined Cubs baseball. How this story differs from all the others over the previous 1. Chicago winning the World Series. Thats right The Chicago Cubs are World Series champions. Shout it from the rooftops of Waveland and Sheffield. The last time anybody spoke such words, Joshua Chamberlain, a hero at the Battle of Gettysburg, was alive. That such a development could be real is amazing enough. But how it happened was nothing short of astonishing. I said before the Series that a sweep wouldnt do it, said Cubs principal owner Tom Ricketts. And that was epic, wasnt itSaid first baseman Anthony Rizzo, That rain delay was the most important thing to happen to the Chicago Cubs in the past 1. I dont think theres any way we win the game without it. Anthony Rizzo, Chicago CubsThe man with the deep, purposeful voice was Jason Heyward, the 1. As the players left the first base dugout and went down a corridor that leads to stairs up to the clubhouse, Heyward called them into a long, rectangular weight room off the hallway. Maddon saw them and kept walking back to his office. He rarely has meetings with his playersonly about three of them in the past 1. So the manager didnt bother to inquire about what was going on in the weight room. Its crazy how things happen for a reason, he says. So they had their meeting, and the big part of it was, We dont quit. The 2010 World Series was the 106th edition of Major League Baseballs championship series. The bestofseven playoff, played between the American League champions. How to Buy World Series Tickets. Scan through the 2017 World Series Schedule and select the game that you would like to attend, or use the opponent or date filters. But when it did on Friday night, the result was not what they were. We dont quit. Cubs president Theo Epstein met with the manager in his office to confer about their pitching. Maddon had already improvised by inserting Jon Lester into the fifth inning in relief of Kyle Hendricks with Clevelands Carlos Santana at first base and two outs. In a pregame strategy session the last thing Epstein and Maddon agreed upon was that Lester, because of his mental block throwing to bases and his limited history of relief work, would enter a game only at the start of an inning. But Maddon abandoned the agreement because he wanted the lefty to face lefthanded hitting Jason Kipnis. However, Kipnis reached on an infield single that was compounded by a throwing error from catcher David Ross that left Kipnis at second and Santana at third. Watch Online Watch The Haunted Curiosity Shop Full Movie Online Film. Lester then bounced a wild pitch that allowed both runners to scorethe first such play in a World Series since 1. Lester, however, recovered to pick up nine outs without further damage. While Epstein met again with Maddon during the rain delay, his phone buzzed with a text. The message instructed him to meet in a suite behind home plate with Peter Woodfork, MLB senior vice president of baseball operations, about the anticipated length of the delay. Epstein walked out of Maddons office and down the stairs. As he passed the weight room on his left, however, Epstein suddenly stopped. He saw his entire teamno coachesso he remained outside and listened. The Cubs beat the Indians in an epic World Series Game 7 that wasnt won until a rain storm helped wash away the last vestiges of a historic drought. In the 1920 World Series, the Cleveland Indians beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, then known interchangeably as the Robins in reference to their manager Wilbert Robinson, in. November 3, 2016 1022am EDT November 3, 2016 112am EDT We knew it was important, but we didnt know this would be one of the greatest games ever, too. The 2016 World Series yielded historically high ticket prices on the secondary market. StubHubs Cameron Papp from joined ABC7 News at 11 a. World Series 2016 Game 7 Chicago Cubs vs. Cleveland Indians RECAP, score and stats 11216. What is the schedule, date and times of the World Series and the seven potential games that could be played to award Major League Baseballs championshipHeyward was leading the meeting. Were the best team in baseball, and were the best team in baseball for a reason, Heyward said. We play like the score is nothing nothing. Weve got to stay positive and fight for your brothers. Stick together and were going to win this game. Other players began to speak up. Keep grindingChappy, weve got you. Were going to pick you up. This is only going to make it better when we win. Epstein smiled. Only moments earlier, when Davis had hit his dagger of a home run off Chapman to tie the game with two outs in the eighth, Epsteins heart sank. You blow a three run lead with four outs to go. Starting with Chicagos Instructional League teams that winter, he set about changing the Cubs culture so that rather than expecting to lose, members of the organization expected to thrive and win through camaraderie and attention to detail. Overhearing the players only meeting, Epstein suddenly lost that doomsday feeling Daviss home run had triggered. From my position I can see it the sacrifice the scouts make when they drive the extra miles to get that last look at a player, the minor league coaches putting in extra hours, the big league coaches crushing video, the players working on their weaknesses, picking their teammates up. Thats what makes a great organization. Thats Cub. Right then I thought, Were winning this f game. Says Rizzo, All game long I was burning nervous energy. I was a wreck. I thought about all the people in Chicago and how much this meant to them. But after we had that meeting, I knew we were going to win. It was only a matter of how and when. The clock approached midnight when the rain began. The delay lasted only 1. The timing was crazy. The Cubs and the Indians had combined this year to play more than 4. World Series, they were forced to take a break. It was the ultimate dramatic pause in the telling of a story, perhaps a final wink and nod from the baseball gods before fortune really turned for the Cubs. A little divine intervention never hurt, Epstein says. Before heading back to the field, Maddonlt sat behind his desk in the visiting managers office, the one with two open packages of dark chocolate bars and an 8 . Then he grabbed a faded periwinkle blue Angels capthe outdated one with a wings logoand stuffed it into the back of his waistband and underneath his hoodie. The hat belonged to his father, Joe, or as they knew him around Hazelton, Pa., Joe the Plumber. Joseph Anthony Maddon worked 6. C. Maddon Sons Plumbing and Heating, a family business begun in the 1. Carmen Maddon, an immigrant from Italy. Five sons followed. Many of the pipes in Hazelton were serviced by the Maddon boys. Three of them, including Joe, who often would be found with a Phillies Cheroot cigar between his teeth, raised families in the apartments above the shop on 1. Street. Joe the Plumber died in April 2. Angels. Six months later Anaheim won the World Series. During the clinching Game 7, Joe would sneak back to the clubhouse and rub his dads hat for luck. In the ninth inning he brought the hat to the dugout, facing the field, Joe says, so he could see the last out of winning the World Series. Fourteen years later, Maddon and the hat were in the dugout for the finale of another Game 7.