Chicago Cubs Break Curse, Win World Series in Strangest Game 7 Ever

It only took 108 years plus 10 action-packed innings and 4 hours and 45 heart-stopping minutes, which included a rain delay, for the Chicago Cubs to beat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, breaking the longest professional-sports curse. Suggested Reading New AI TikTok Trend Has Gorillas Posing as Black Women, and Folks are Pissed…

It only took 108 years plus 10 action-packed innings and 4 hours and 45 heart-stopping minutes, which included a rain delay, for the Chicago Cubs to beat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, breaking the longest professional-sports curse.

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According to ESPN, it was the first World Series game to feature a rain delay. It was only the fifth Game 7 winner-take-all game to go into extra innings. And the first game in which the winning team blew a lead in the eighthย inning, only to come back and win.

This game was an emotional roller coaster of suspense and anguish and triumph (if you're a Cubs fan). It was arguably the best final game ever played in professional sports.

Here's what ESPN senior writer Jayson Stark said about all of the craziness:

It was a game in which the most unhittable pitchers of this postseasonโ€”first Corey Kluber, then Andrew Miller, then Aroldis Chapmanโ€”turned stunningly hittable.

It was a game featuring the first leadoff home run in World Series Game 7 history (by the Cubs' Dexter Fowler).

It was a game that Chapman couldn't saveโ€”but a man who had never saved a game in his big-league life (Mike Montgomery) could.

And it was a game in which the go-ahead run in extra innings was scored by a man (Albert Almora) who hadn't scored a run in the entire postseason.

ย It was a World Series finish that had all the drama of a Hollywood feature and was predicted some two years ago on the day the Cubs hired manager Joe Maddon.

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