Rather than building suspense, the disruption gave the gathering at Progressive Field a chance to recover from its collective nervous breakdown. The winning rally came, finally, after rain delayed the game before the start of extra innings. In what seemed like the most heartbreaking yet of nightmarish Cubs postseason games gone wrong, Ben Zobrist’s 10th-inning double off Bryan Shaw broke a 6-6 tie, and the Cubs outlasted the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in a title-winning, drought-breaking, impossible-to-believe Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday. The baseball facts matter, especially these, though they hardly do justice to the scale of the outcome or the level of drama that unfolded. Doolittle: The rain-delay meeting that changed Cubs history.Crasnick: Anatomy of an epic Cubs' comeback.Rogers: Zo Cubs Zo! MVP Zobrist leads Chicago to the promised land.Stark: How did the Cubs' curse end? With the greatest game ever.Cubs win! Cubs win! Epic Game 7 victory ends Series curse.Lovable Losers no more, the Cubs beat the Indians in an epic, seven-game Fall Classic to win their first title since 1908.

After a century and eight years, the Chicago Cubs are world champions, and they did it by surviving a game for the ages, a contest in which they finally slew demons that refused to be exorcised.įor the Cubs, 108 was enough. The Comeback on the Cuyahoga is complete. CLEVELAND - Are the skies black with locusts? Has Lake Michigan turned red? Two days after Halloween, the curse has been cursed.

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