2016 world series game 7 scorecard full#

2016 world series game 7 scorecard full#

I got a good jump on it and was going full speed, and I was thinking of scoring right away. Then I saw it kind of knocked Ross onto his back leg, so he had no momentum carrying toward the direction of the ball. Kipnis: The first step (on the wild pitch), I was making sure Santana was going. Ross on his error: I'm like, 'All we gotta do is get an out.'' Jonny was ready to pitch, he did, he pitched well. That's where I failed to connect the dots with everybody else. But the ball dribbled far enough away that a wild pitch occurs and two runs score, and all of the sudden it's a concern. So if David is able to make that play and Kipnis is out at first base, there is no narrative to follow that. Those are the nuances in the moment that you have to determine in advance. It's almost like Jonny did have a clean inning, and I told him that when he came in. It's almost like there's a ghost at first base. It was Santana at first base with two outs and a four-run lead. In my mind, in a situation like that, if you leave Kyle in and Kipnis (hits) a two-run homer with Jonny warmed up, that's when you get upset with yourself. Maddon: Here is Kipnis, who had done well the day before against (Jake) Arrieta, and it was a 5-1 game. They both scored on Lester's wild pitch to Francisco Lindor, which cut the Cubs' lead to 5-3. Jason Kipnis reached on an infield single that Ross fielded but threw wildly to first, allowing Kipnis and Santana to advance to second and third. So in came Lester, his first relief appearance in nine years, and his personal catcher, the retiring David Ross. … It's not every day you have Jonny Lester warming up in your bullpen in the seventh game of a World Series. Maddon: To expect a lot more than that at this time of year would be kind of a stretch. Then Cubs manager Joe Maddon surprisingly pulled Hendricks, baseball's ERA leader during the regular season, after just 63 pitches. Hendricks retired the first two Indians before walking Santana. Then, after Kyle Schwarber hit into a double play off reliever Andrew Miller, Bryant walked and scored on Anthony Rizzo's single to make it 5-1. Javier Baez led off the fifth with a home run to center to chase Kluber. They were never behind in this game.Willson Contreras rounds first base on an RBI double in the fourth inning. The Cubs stayed in command until the improbable bottom of the eighth. Ross reclaimed one of those runs with a solo home run to center off Miller in the top of the sixth inning, extending Chicago's lead 6-3. Both scored on a wild pitch by Lester, cutting the Indians' deficit to two runs, 5-3. A throwing error by catcher David Ross put runners at second and third. The Cubs' Jon Lester, typically a starter, came in to relieve. Hendricks left the game surrendering only one run and scattering four hits. Cubs manager Joe Maddon pulled starter Kyle Hendricks in the bottom of that inning with two outs after he walked Santana. The Indians came back with two runs in the fifth. Two outs later, Bryant walked and scored on a base hit by Rizzo. The Indians brought in their ace reliever, Andrew Miller. The Indians went down quietly in the bottom of the fourth inning.Ĭhicago got two more runs in the fifth inning on a solo homer by Baez on the first pitch he saw from Kluber. A sacrifice fly by Addison Russell scored Bryant, then a double by Willson Contreras brought in the Cubs' second run of the frame. Kris Bryant led off with a single and Rizzo was hit by a pitch. The Cubs regained the lead in the top of the fourth inning, scoring two runs. But the Indians failed to capitalize on what might have been a big inning.

An error by Cubs second baseman Javier Baez put another runner on base. The Indians tied the score at 1-1 when Coco Crisp led off the bottom of the third inning with a double to left, took third on a sacrifice bunt by Roberto Perez and scored on a single to right field by Carlos Santana. Schwarber collected his second single of the game but was thrown out trying to stretch out a double to end the top half of the third inning.

Schwarber followed with a single, but Kluber then retired eight straight Cubs over the first three innings. The Cubs struck quickly in the first inning with a solo home run to center field by leadoff hitter Dexter Fowler, off Indians starter Corey Kluber. The game had no shortage of stomach-tightening moments for both teams and their fans. The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series was 1908, when Theodore Roosevelt was president.īy losing in extra innings in Game 7, the Indians fell short of their goal: to win Cleveland's first championship since 1948.