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The 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season.The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians, the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history.
The last time a team came back from a three-games-to-one deficit to win the World Series was the Kansas City Royals in 1985. The Cubs were also the first team to win Games 6 and 7 on the road in a World Series since the Pittsburgh Pirates did it against the Baltimore Orioles in 1979.
The win earned the Cubs their first World Series appearance since 1945 and a chance for their first World Series win since 1908. Coming back from a three-games-to-one deficit, the Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in seven games in the 2016 World Series , They were the first team to come back from a three-games-to-one deficit since the Kansas ...
The Cubs added Schwarber to their roster for the 2016 World Series, and started him in Game 1 as their designated hitter. [35] Schwarber's addition to the Cubs' starting line-up was surprising given he had not played in a Major League game since his injury in April. [36] Schwarber hit a double off the right-field wall in the 4th inning of Game 1.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
a The 19th-century World Series was a different event from the current World Series, which was first played in 1903. The 19th-century World Series was considered an exhibition contest between the champion of the National League and the champion of the American Association. [85] b Jim Frey won the Manager of the Year Award for the 1984 season. [10]
The season marked the end of an era as the Cubs traded core members of the team that won the 2016 World Series (Javier Báez, Kris Bryant, and Anthony Rizzo) at the trade deadline. [3] [4] The Cubs set an MLB record for most players used in a season by a single team as 69 different players appeared for the Cubs. [5]
The Cubs were the defending World Series champions, having defeated the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series. The Cubs began the season on April 2, 2017, at the St. Louis Cardinals and finished the regular season October 1 at home against the Cincinnati Reds. The Cubs finished the season 92–70 in first place in the Central Division.