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Dexter Fowler Starts Game 7 With A Leadoff Donger
Corey Kluber is starting for the third time in the past nine days, and he gave up a dinger to Dexter Fowler on his fourth pitch of the evening. Fowler wasn’t sure it’d clear the fence but he rounded second and yelled backwards at the Cubs dugout after the dinger fell....
At Least Jason Heyward Can Still Play Some Defense
It wasn’t so long ago that watching Jason Heyward play baseball was one of the more thrilling experiences the game had to offer. It’s easy to say that about a guy who plays all-world defense in the outfield and knocks the crap out of the ball at the plate, but the 2016 version of Heyward is not that...
Joe Maddon, What Were You Thinking?
Fuck it, I’ll second-guess....
The Cubs Finally Remembered How To Hit
The Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians are heading to Game 7 tomorrow, after the Cubs walloped Indians pitching around for a 9-3 win. Bill Simmons may have predicted that the Indians’ pitching would help them to a Game 6 victory, but they were overmatched from the start. Before Jake Arrieta even too...
Addison Russell Put Cleveland In The Trash Can With A Big Ole Grand Slam
Addison Russell, fresh off picking up two of the easiest RBIs of his career thanks to some outfield incompetence, welcomed Dan Otero to the game by spanking this pitch to center field for a grand salami....
Cleveland Gifted A Few Runs To Chicago With Some Dumbass Defense
It was a perfectly normal, albeit disappointing, first-inning development when Josh Tomlin followed up two quick outs by laying an easy curveball for Kris Bryant to jerk out of the ballpark. Much less normal, however, was the way the Indians gave up their next two runs to the Cubs....
Get A Load Of The Sports Dude's Extremely Poor World Series Take
Hey, look! It’s The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, definitely unknowingly walking smack-dab into what in no way looks like a prearranged and staged TMZ ambush today in Los Angeles, where reporters lurked to find out what famous Hollywood power-player Bill Simmons thinks will happen in Game 6 of the World Se...
White Sox Didn't Want Giant Downward Arrow On Their Stadium; Corporate Sponsor Said "Too Bad"
When the White Sox announced a new, 13-year naming rights deal for their stadium (which you can continue to call whatever you’d like), the jokes were plentiful and justified: The name is awkward and bland, and could they really not do better than a medium-sized mortgage lender? But judgment was larg...
Jay Cutler Is Not Long For Chicago
It was a feel-good Monday night in Chicago, a relatively dominant 20-10 win over the division-leading Vikings, but the truth is none of that really matters for the Bears. Even with the victory they’re 2-6, not going anywhere, and the team has reportedly hired an “outside consultant” for a full evalu...
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Aroldis Chapman's Top Of The Eighth Was Designed To Make You Hate Baseball
Last night’s eight-out save by Aroldis Chapman featured the Cuban closer throwing 42 pitches to preserve the Cubs’ one-run lead to send the World Series back to Cleveland for a Game 6. At times, I was convinced that I would grow old and die before Chapman left the mound. ...
The Cubs Can't Touch Cleveland's Breaking Stuff
If there’s a single image that sums up the the first five games of the 2016 World Series, it’s one of the Cubs’ many supposedly mighty hitters feebly swinging at a breaking ball in the dirt. At this point, I think Javier Báez would swing at a ball that was rolled to the plate....
Joe Maddon Gets It Right Again
Aroldis Chapman, like some closers, is very particular. He hates being asked to warm up more than once before entering a game. He likes to know exactly when he’s going to come in. Joe Maddon knows his players. So, before Game 5, the first elimination game the Cubs have faced all year, Maddon knew he...
Wrigleyville Is On The Case Of The Dildo-Thrower
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Aroldis Chapman Gets Eight-Out Save To Keep The Cubs Alive
The Chicago Cubs staved off elimination from the World Series with a 3-2 Game 5 win over the Cleveland Indians Sunday....
Cleveland Takes 3-1 World Series Lead By Trouncing Cubs 7-2
The Cleveland Indians took a 3-1 lead in the World Series after crushing the Cubs 7-2 in front of 41,706 fans, many of whom paid tens of thousands of dollars to watch their team lose....
Game 3's Pitching Match-Up Was A Throwback
Last night’s World Series Game 3 wasn’t quite the pristine pitching match-up its 1-0 final score might indicate—there was an inconsistent strike zone, some very poor base running, Cleveland couldn’t score runners in scoring position for most of the game and each team ended up reaching for relief arm...
Welcome To <i>Hardball III</i>, I'm Al Michaels
In 1992, Accolade released the most advanced baseball game yet developed: Hardball III, featuring actual commentary from Al Michaels—an incredible feat for its day. So we updated the rosters and are simulating tonight’s World Series Game 4, LIVE: ...
Cleveland Completes Record Fifth Postseason Shutout, Leads World Series 2-1
Cubs fans will have to wait a little bit longer to witness the first World Series win at Wrigley in (almost) all of their lifetimes after losing a tense 1-0 game to the Indians Friday night. ...