![]() ![]() 315/.401/.620 with 38 home runs and 48 doubles in the greatest farewell season in baseball history, but couldn't lead the Red Sox past the Indians. Toronto then met the Texas Rangers in the ALDS for a second straight year, with the same result, only this time in three games, a Blue Jays sweep.ĭavid Ortiz hit. ![]() ![]() Both the Blue Jays and Orioles won 89 games in 2016, and needed extra innings to decide the AL Wild Card Game in Toronto with Edwin Encarnacion hitting a three-run home run to send Jays fans home happy. The American League East was well represented in October, with both Wild Card teams coming from the division. The Cubs were tested by the Giants, but ultimately dispatched San Francisco in four games in the NLDS, ending the Giants' even-year championship run.Ĭhicago then beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, winners of the NL West for four straight seasons, in the NLCS in six games, capturing the Cubs' first pennant in 71 years. The Mets couldn't give the Cubs a playoff rematch, instead falling at home to the San Francisco Giants in the NL Wild Card Game, behind a shutout from Madison Bumgarner and a three-run home run in the ninth inning by Conor Gillaspie. The Cubs lost to the New York Mets in the National League Championship Series in 2015, but are favored to win the World Series this year. Plenty of stories abound with the teams that did make it to the postseason this year, led by the juggernaut Cubs, a 103-win superteam who made it to their first World Series since 1945. But in the end there stood just one, the Chicago Cubs, who beat the Cleveland Indians in seven games for their first World Series championship since 1908. Three times in the first five innings, Cleveland were able to get a baserunner to third but could not advance him the last 30 metres.The 2016 MLB playoffs are here, starting with 10 teams vying for World Series supremacy. Tomlin, spotting his pitches with pinpoint accuracy, kept the Cubs off balance and off the bases, while Chicago starter Kyle Hendricks escaped jam after jam. Roars rolled through the old stadium in the opening innings but, as the game wore on, a worried stillness marked the tense battle. With the wind blowing out towards Wrigley Field’s reachable, ivy-covered outfield walls, offensive fireworks were anticipated but it was the pitchers who held sway along with bench player Crisp, who ruined the fun for a packed house of nearly 42,000. The Indians’ victory jettisoned any chance the Cubs had of clinching the World Series title at home with only the next two games left to be played in Chicago. Reliever Carl Edwards Jr, one of six pitchers used by the Cubs, took the loss. Andrew Miller, who relieved starter Josh Tomlin in the fifth, was credited with the win as four Cleveland pitchers combined on a five-hitter. ![]()
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