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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 ...
The Cleveland Indians opened up their 2016 season with a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox at Progressive Field. Opening Day was scheduled for April 4, but was postponed due to a mixture of rain and snow until April 5. The Indians lost the opener 6–2.
The 2024 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2024 season.In each of the two leagues – National and American – the three division winners and three wild card teams (the remaining teams with the best records) participated in the postseason, for a total of twelve teams.
The Cubs defeated the Indians in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series to win the team's first title since 1908.
Cleveland has made it to baseball's biggest stage four more times over the last 75 years, but came up short in 1954, 1995, 1997, and most recently in 2016. That last World Series trip was the most ...
In the first World Series game played at Wrigley Field since 1945, the Indians, with help from four pitchers - Josh Tomlin, Andrew Miller, Bryan Shaw, and Cody Allen, shut out the Cubs by a 1–0 score to take a 2–1 series lead. The Indians then took Game 4 by a 7–2 score to go up 3–1 in the series.
The Chicago Cubs forced a Game 7 with a blowout win over Cleveland on Tuesday thanks to an offensive explosion.
This is the first American League Championship Series since 2016 to not feature the Houston Astros, who were swept by the Detroit Tigers in the Wild Card Series.This brought an end to the Astros' streak of seven consecutive ALCS appearances (2017–2023), the most consecutive LCS appearances in the American League and the second-most consecutive LCS appearances after the Atlanta Braves ...