Your Official Live 2016 World Series Thread---Game Three

[EasyAce]

The early reports say the wind is blowing out at Wrigley Field. So don't be shocked if the hitters on both
sides have feasts tonight.

Tonight's starting pitchers: Kyle Hendricks (Cubs) vs. Josh Timlin (Indians).

The last Cub pitcher to start a World Series game: Hank Borowy. The last Indian to start a Series game: Jaret Wright.

The last Cub pitcher to win a World Series game: Hank Borowy. The last Indian pitcher to win a World Series game: Chad Ogea.

Other notes:

* Kyle Schwarber hasn't been cleared by doctors to play the outfield. He'll be limited to pinch hitting during
the Wrigley Field leg of the Series.

* Carlos Santana will start in left field for the Indians so Mike Napoli can stay in the lineup and play first
base during the Wrigley leg.

* It's been 25,950 days since a World Series game was last played in Wrigley Field.

According to ESPN:

* 45 different ballparks have hosted a World Series game since Wrigley’s last one. The first Yankee Stadium hosted 70 World
Series games since the last one played at the "Friendly Confines."

* 26 of those parks are no longer active, including Atlanta's Turner Field, which was deactivated at the end of the 2016
season.

* 27 different franchises have hosted a World Series game since the Cubs last did.

* 12 of those franchises didn’t exist in 1945. Overall, there have been 14 expansion franchises to join the majors since 1945.

* 1,445 different players have had at least one plate appearance in the World Series over that span, including in Games 1 and
2 of the 2016 World Series between the Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, according to Elias.

* 3,192 runs have been scored in the Fall Classic in those 45 different ballparks, again including the first two games of this World
Series.

Game time 7:00 PM CDT . . .

[bigheadfred]

The early reports say the wind is blowing out at Wrigley Field. So don't be shocked if the hitters on both
sides have feasts tonight.

Tonight's starting pitchers: Kyle Hendricks (Cubs) vs. Josh Timlin (Indians).

The last Cub pitcher to start a World Series game: Hank Borowy. The last Indian to start a Series game: Jaret Wright.

The last Cub pitcher to win a World Series game: Hank Borowy. The last Indian pitcher to win a World Series game: Chad Ogea.

Other notes:

* Kyle Schwarber hasn't been cleared by doctors to play the outfield. He'll be limited to pinch hitting during
the Wrigley Field leg of the Series.

* Carlos Santana will start in left field for the Indians so Mike Napoli can stay in the lineup and play first
base during the Wrigley leg.

* It's been 25,950 days since a World Series game was last played in Wrigley Field.

According to ESPN:

* 45 different ballparks have hosted a World Series game since Wrigley’s last one. The first Yankee Stadium hosted 70 World
Series games since the last one played at the "Friendly Confines."

* 26 of those parks are no longer active, including Atlanta's Turner Field, which was deactivated at the end of the 2016
season.

* 27 different franchises have hosted a World Series game since the Cubs last did.

* 12 of those franchises didn’t exist in 1945. Overall, there have been 14 expansion franchises to join the majors since 1945.

* 1,445 different players have had at least one plate appearance in the World Series over that span, including in Games 1 and
2 of the 2016 World Series between the Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, according to Elias.

* 3,192 runs have been scored in the Fall Classic in those 45 different ballparks, again including the first two games of this World
Series.

Game time 7:00 PM CDT . . .

Go Cubbies!

[musiclady]

Some Indians fans have set up a Wedding Registry for Joe Buck and Kyle Schwarber.

I hope Joe's passion doesn't gush quite as badly during this time as it did in Game 2.

A lot of the audience became nauseous.

We just muted him.   If we want to watch romance, we watch romance, not baseball..... 

[EasyAce]

Some Indians fans have set up a Wedding Registry for Joe Buck and Kyle Schwarber.

Buck does go overboard when he latches onto a good story (and if you think he's bad you don't
remember Bob Prince all those years broadcasting for the Pirates), but even an Indians fan has to admit
Schwarber is quite a story this Series, all things considered.

[Wingnut]

Go Cubs

[musiclady]

Buck does go overboard when he latches onto a good story (and if you think he's bad you don't
remember Bob Prince all those years broadcasting for the Pirates), but even an Indians fan has to admit
Schwarber is quite a story this Series, all things considered.

Yes, a story, and a GREAT one, but not worthy of a love affair!

(Seriously, there are photoshopped photos of Schwarber proposing to Buck, and Buck saying "YES!"  Hilarious!).

I DO love the stories of the old folks wanting the Cubs to win though, just like the old Indians' fans.  Those are some great stories!

[bigheadfred]

Go Cubs

Is that a scene from Naked Launch?  Who wrote that? Doug Out? ummm...no...I think it was Burr Ohs...

[Rivergirl]

What was that............National Anthem...............not the proper words.

[musiclady]

Is that a scene from Naked Launch?  Who wrote that? Doug Out? ummm...no...I think it was Burr Ohs...

One of Hillary's e-mails from Anthony Weiner???

[EasyAce]

Yes, a story, and a GREAT one, but not worthy of a love affair!

(Seriously, there are photoshopped photos of Schwarber proposing to Buck, and Buck saying "YES!"  Hilarious!).

I DO love the stories of the old folks wanting the Cubs to win though, just like the old Indians' fans.  Those are some great stories!

Shame someone can't get vintage recordings and splice together a would-be game broadcast featuring Harry Caray
(Cubs) and Herb Score (Indians) . . .

[bigheadfred]

One of Hillary's e-mails from Anthony Weiner???

Batter up.

[EasyAce]

GAME ON!

[EasyAce]

Lindor picked off first on review, the tag did get his arm just before he got his hand back
on the bag . . .

[EasyAce]

The Tribe threatens but don't score in the top of the first . . .

[EasyAce]

Three up, three down for the Cubs, no score after one full inning . . .

[Wingnut]

One of Hillary's e-mails from Anthony Weiner???

It was a fast ball.

[Wingnut]

Wrigley.  Looks good! 

[EasyAce]

Infield hit, force out, Area Code 6-4-3, Indians gone in the second, no score . . .

[Wingnut]

I see the Tribe wore their softball jersey unies tonight.    Someone tell them this is not the Bill Veeck appreciation night.

[EasyAce]

Leadoff single by Ben Zobrist, stranded on second, no score after two full.

[EasyAce]

Great spear by Russell of Naquin's liner, one walk, side retired swift otherwise, no score, mid-third.

[EasyAce]

Three up, three down for the Cubs, no score after three full . . .

[EasyAce]

Filthy strike three caught Perez looking on the corner, the Indians threaten with first and third but cash in nothing, no score mid-fourth

[EasyAce]

Leadoff walk, foul pop out behind the plate, force at second, fly out to center, Cubs gone in the fourth, no score still . . .

[bigheadfred]

Keep it going. Can't watch right now.

[EasyAce]

Ducks on the pond . . . Hendricks yields to Justin Grimm . . . then Lindor on a full count dials Area Code 4-6-3, side
retired! No score, mid-fifth . . .

[EasyAce]

. . . and pinch hitter Montero hits a bullet high liner to right, but right at Chisenhall for the side, still
no score after five. . .

[EasyAce]

Miller strikes out the side . . . still no score, bottom of the sixth . . .

[EasyAce]

The Indians score first on pinch hitter Crisp's high line single to right but the Cubs throw out
Davis trying for third . . . 1-0, Indians, two out, top of the seventh.

[EasyAce]

Soler gets a wind-assisted two out triple in the bottom but the Cubs can't push him home. 1-0, Indians after seven . . .

[EasyAce]

Three up three down for the Indians, they lead 1-0 mid-eighth

[EasyAce]

Two-out single from Dexter Fowler, stranded. 1-0 Indians after eight.

(Edited. Had a Herb Score moment . . . )

[EasyAce]

Chapman punches out two and gets a ground out deep to second, three up three down for the Tribe,
1-0 Indians going to the bottom of the ninth . . .

[bigheadfred]

First and third two  out in the bottom of the ninth 1-0 Indians. The big finish coming. Baez fouls first pitch.

[bigheadfred]

Cubs steal second.

[bigheadfred]

101 to baez.

[bigheadfred]

Ball 2 2-1

[bigheadfred]

Strike 2

[bigheadfred]

Strike 3 Indians win game 3  1-0 Booo Hissss

[dfwgator]

Strike 3 Indians win game 3  1-0 Booo Hissss

WOOO HOOO!  Go Tribe!!!

[musiclady]

YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

[bigheadfred]

WOOO HOOO!  Go Tribe!!!

BOOO HISSSS Go Cubbies!

[sinkspur]

Indians are first team to throw five shutouts in a postseason.

And the Cubs are only the second team in MLB history to endure four shutouts in a postseason.  The other was the Philadelphia A's in 1905.

[EasyAce]

Cody Allen strikes out Javier Baez with deuces wild, the Indians win 1-0 and take a 2-1
World Series lead!!!!!

[bigheadfred]

Indians are first team to throw five shutouts in a postseason.

And the Cubs are only the second team in MLB history to endure four shutouts in a postseason.  The other was the Philadelphia A's in 1905.

I hope your arm hurts after that toss. 

[sinkspur]

Pitching wins championships.

Now Cubs have to face Cleveland ace Kleuber again tomorrow.

[musiclady]

Cody Allen strikes out Javier Baez with deuces wild, the Indians win 1-0 and take a 2-1
World Series lead!!!!!

LIKE




I am now breathing again!   

[EasyAce]

Pitching wins championships.

Now Cubs have to face Cleveland ace Kleuber again tomorrow.

I'm looking for another pitching duel tomorrow. Lackey isn't a young man anymore but he
does pitch up when he's in a World Series. I don't see a high scoring Game Four coming.

[SZonian]

DAMN IT! 

I forgot, for some damned dumb reason that Game 3 was on tonight.  Sounds like it was damned GREAT game.

Oh woe is me... 

[EasyAce]

LIKE




I am now breathing again!   

Tight Indians win, big Indians mouth
By Yours Truly

Jason Kipnis, the Indians’ two-time All-Star second baseman, grew up in a Chicago suburb with dreams of playing the
World Series in Wrigley Field. Dreams shared by a few million Cub fans who couldn’t wait to get the party started when the World
Series finally came to Wrigley Field after lo these many decades.

And after his Indians managed to squeeze their way to a 1-0 Game Three win in the Confines, Kipnis took into consideration the
broken hearts in the ballpark, in front of the television sets, next to the radios, wherever Cub Country congregated, and had words
for those hearts.

“I love it. I hope we break all of them. I hope we break every single one of them,” said Kipnis after the game. “I hope I come home
for Thanksgiving, Christmas, the offseason, and I just want to have a smile on my face when I look at all these Cubs fans.”

You don’t blame him for wishing his Indians—who haven’t won a World Series since the year in which windsurfing, hair spray, cat
litter, the restroom hair dryer, cable television, and the video game were invented—continue crashing the Chicago party. But you
want to counsel him against providing clubhouse billboard fodder and motivation.

Someone on the Cubs is bound to see his published remarks. And liable to tack them up on a clubhouse billboard. These Cubs take
only one thing more seriously than trying to win baseball games, and Kipnis—who was once one of those fans—just stuck the knife
into their backs after a game either team might have been lucky to win in the first place. Never discount that kind of motivation,
about which more shortly.

Oh, yes, Kyle Hendricks, the Cubs’ Game Three starter whose masterpiece against the Dodgers got the Cubs to the Series in the
first place, pitched magnificently. And, oh, yes, Josh Tomlin, motivated by the presence of his partially-paralysed father in the
stands, pitched even more magnficently.

So did both bullpens, even if it was Miller Time after four and two thirds, Miller struck out pinch hitter Miguel Montero to end the
fifth before striking out the side in the sixth, and both teams put pressure enough on each other’s pitching staffs while compelling
Indians skipper Terry Francona to empty his bench to preserve what little lead the Indians came up with.

And so did Coco Crisp, the prodigal Indian who didn’t start Game Three, who was sent out to pinch hit for Miller himself, after pinch
runner Michael Martinez caught the Tribe’s luckiest break of the night—scrambling and diving back to third on a throw up the line,
and getting the safe call despite television replays showing his lead hand touched Cub third baseman Kris Bryant’s foot before
touching the pad after the tag.

Crisp hit a clean line single to left to score Martinez with the game’s only run and the end of Hendricks’s night. And the game came
down to Indians reliever Cody Allen against Cubs second baseman Javier Baez—who continued his highlight reel-quality fielding, in
hand with a few other Cubs and Indians all night long otherwise—with deuces wild in the bottom of the ninth.

Allen caught Baez overanxious, threw him a fastball climbing the mountain, and Baez, hoping to hit one maybe into the rooftop seats,
struck out violently enough to end it. The fact that this was only the fourth time in World Series history that neither starting pitcher
surrendered a run* seemed a mere sidebar. So, almost, did the Indians throwing their fifth shutout of this postseason while the Cubs
suffered their fourth.

Now, back to Kipnis and his publicly expressed wish that every last Cub heart get broken. Not very nice to say about a team and its
fans who’ve been waiting for a World Series win since Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, Bulgaria declared independence
from the Ottoman Empire, and screen legend Carole Lombard was born.

Jason Kipnis, meet Lew Burdette and David Cone. Two great pitchers who fell just short of Hall of Fame great. Two great pitchers
whose big yaps ended up costing their teams big enough.

Burdette beat the Yankees three times in the 1957 Series to help the Braves to Milwaukee’s only World Series championship ever,
so far. A year later, the Braves and the Yankees met in the Series again.

The Braves won the first two games; Burdette pitched and won the second of them. “I wish the Yankees were in the National League,”
the puckish righthander cracked after the game. “They’d be lucky enough to finish second.”

Oops. The Yankees would go on to shake off a 3-1 Series deficit to win the ’58 Series, beating Burdette twice along the way while they
were at it.

Cone helped the Mets win the National League East in 1988 and agreed to write a guest ghosted column for the New York Daily News
during the postseason.

Uh, oh. The Mets beat the Dodgers in Game One of that National League Championship Series, despite eventual LCS and World Series
MVP Orel Hershiser shutting them out for eight innings, when they bushwhacked closer Jay Howell in the ninth with Darryl Strawberry’s
RBI double and Gary Carter’s two-run double, and reliever Randy Myers kept the Dodgers shut in the bottom of the ninth.

Cone popped off in his column. He said Hershiser, who’d win that year’s Cy Young Award while he was at it, was “lucky” to shut the Mets
out for eight innings, and that Howell had little to no chance with that “high school curve” he threw.

Guess who started Game Two? And guess who got thumped for four early runs and was knocked out of the game in the third inning, en
route the Dodgers outlasting the Mets for the pennant? Not to mention, guess whose career as a newspaper columnist (ghosted or
otherwise) ended posthaste?

You could understand part of where Kipnis came from with his comments. It does seem like the entire world is rooting for the Cubs, and
the Indians are just the guys who happened to be the underappreciated other pennant winner in the contest. He said it himself in due
course:

There’s so much Cubs talk, on ESPN and all that stuff, that we actually appreciate it. We like to go under the radar.
We’ve been the underdogs the whole time — in every series. That’s fine by us. We’ll just be that other team that
won the World Series. What do you think?

You haven’t heard anything about us. We’ve probably got guys coming off the bench you don’t even know the
names of. So we like to just worry about ourselves and go play the game of baseball and compete. And that’s all
we’re caring about right now.

If all he’d said was that, Kipnis would have hit a few rhetorical home runs while his Indians—read this carefully, folks—actually sit two wins
away from the kind of party Cleveland hasn’t had since American strategists were planning the Berlin Airlift. Kipnis already earned mucho
kudos for shaking off an ankle sprain to play this Series.

Well, the Dodgers sat two wins away from getting to the World Series before these Cubs overthrew them over a week ago. And whatever they
thought in their own hearts, none of those Dodgers had the audacity to come right out and say they hoped to break millions of them.

Cone had to dine heartily on his own words both in his own first start and when the Dodgers out-lasted the Mets in 1988. All it might take is
someone pinning Kipnis’s words up on the billboard in the Cubs clubhouse, as the 1988 Dodgers did to David Cone, and Kipnis just might find
himself dining even more heartily on his. In a waffle Cone with Burdette topping.

* For the record, the only other such pairs of World Series starters were:

---Freddy Garcia and Brandon backe, 2005 Game Four.
---Dennis Martinez and Tom Glavine, 1995 Game Six.
---John Smoltz and Jack Morris, 1991 Game Seven.