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Game 1 is Tuesday night at Progressive Field in Cleveland. Some defensive statistics Copyright © Baseball Info Solutions, 2010-2022. The Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians will meet in the 2016 World Series, each looking to snap a decades-old championship drought. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith.įull-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Kris Bryant Chicago Cubs 2016 MLB World Series Champions Autographed 2016 World Series Logo Baseball with 'Fly the W' Inscription.
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Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Logos were compiled by the amazing .Ĭopyright © 2000-2022 Sports Reference LLC. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. We present them here for purely educational purposes. They have matched up in six different seasons in the 20-year history of interleague play, splitting four games in their last meeting in 2015, including splits in both home parks.įOX televised the World Series, with Joe Buck on play-by-play and John Smoltz as the analyst, joined by reporters Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci.ĮSPN Radio broadcast the Fall Classic nationally, with Dan Shulman on play-by-play alongside analyst Aaron Boone, two-thirds of ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcast team.All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. These World Series Baseballs are finely crafted to meet the rigid specifications established by Major League Baseball. The Cubs and Indians had never met in the postseason. These 2016 World Series Baseballs features the logos of the National League Champion Chicago Cubs and the American League Champion Cleveland Indians. They beat the San Francisco Giants in four games in the NLDS, then took six games to outlast the Dodgers, with starter Jon Lester standing out with his 0.86 ERA in three postseason starts this year. Cleveland was 7-1 during the AL playoffs, including 4-0 at home.Ĭhicago was a juggernaut in the regular season, winning 103 games while outscoring opponents by a whopping 252 runs. The Indians had some extra time to prepare for the Fall Classic, closing out the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 5 of the ALCS. That’s not to discount the Indians, who were back in the World Series for the first time since 1997 and came within one win of their fist title since 1948.īecause the American League won the All-Star Game in San Diego, the Indians had home-field advantage in the World Series, which began last Tuesday at Progressive Field in Cleveland. The final game was a 10-inning classic, with Chicago outlasting Cleveland 8-7. The Chicago Cubs trailed the Cleveland Indians three games to one, but rallied to win the final three games to win the 2016 World Series, ending their 108-year championship drought.