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The 2016 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball’s 2016 postseason in which the overall #1 seed Chicago Cubs defeated the third-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers for the National League (NL) pennant and the right to play in the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians. As the Division Series ...
The Cubs entered the All-Star break with a record of 53–35, having lost 15 out of their last 21 games. However, the Cubs' lead of seven games over St. Louis in the division was still the largest lead in baseball. [49] July 15 – After the All-Star break, the Cubs welcomed the Texas Rangers to Wrigley Field. Kyle Hendricks started the second ...
The three divisional winners (seeded 1–3) and a fourth team—the winner of a one-game Wild Card playoff— played in two series. FS1 and MLB Network carried all the games in the United States. [2] [3] These matchups were: (1) Chicago Cubs (Central Division champions) vs (5) San Francisco Giants (Wild Card Winner): Cubs win series 3–1.
The 2016 championship came with a cost as the Cubs dealt some of their minor-league prospects to opposing teams to fill in a few holes on the roster. ... trade deadline in 2021 with the Cubs ...
This was the second postseason meeting between the Cubs and Giants. Their last meeting was in the 1989 NLCS, which the Giants won in five games. The Cubs defeated the Giants in four games to advance to the NLCS for the second year in a row. Jon Lester pitched eight innings of shutout ball as the Cubs won 1-0 in Game 1. In Game 2, the Cubs ...
During a discussion with Anthony Rizzo in June in San Francisco, the 2016 Chicago Cubs’ 10-year reunion came up. Sure, it’s more than five years away, but it’s never too early to start ...
Joe Maddon, Aaron Boone and Cliff Floyd talk about the significance of the Cubs winning the 2016 World Series
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.