#Mlb 2016 world series game 7 full
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In all honesty, I was pretty emotionally drained at this point after watching the Indians fumble away a 3-1 lead and play as flat as they did at the start of game seven. I also didn’t remember many specifics of the at-bat leading up to Rajai hitting the home run. Maybe it’s no coincidence that the very next pitch after he was seen transmitting his brainwaves left Progressive Field.

Whatever juju he was trying to conjure with those wizard hands worked. Everything great about the sport of baseball boiled down to 20 seconds of drama.īut you know what I don’t remember? This fuckin’ guy. I remember that I’ve never felt more excited about baseball in that exact moment - Rajai Davis choking halfway up the bat and flying around the bases with his tongue out and arm raised high in excitement. Which then leads to watching Jason Kipnis’ near home run in extras, which leads to more sadness and goddamn why did it have to rain in Cleveland that night. Unfortunately, the recommended clip has the Fox broadcast with Joe Buck quietly calling the game, so when this video comes along I also, by law, have to look up the Hammy call. Sometimes I’ll just watch the clip of the massive shot to left field hitting the camera just to hear Progressive Field erupt and see Aroldis Chapman stare dead-eyed as he watched the lead he was gifted slip away.

#Mlb 2016 world series game 7 tv

She came down to ask me what happened, and I explained before she sat just as glued to the TV as I was. Whatever I did was enough to take up my wife, though, who went to bed early to get ready for work at six the next morning. I also remember the exact moment I realized the ball was gone, and how hard I tried not to either cry, scream, or some mixture of the two that would wake my kids up. I remember feeling kind of guilty that it wasn’t Jason Lukehart before me, or even Ryan before him that got to experience this as the editor of a community as great as Let’s Go Tribe.

#Mlb 2016 world series game 7 full

Sometimes I’ll watch the whole thing, to put myself back in the mindset of that series, to remember what it felt like to actually be watching the Indians on the verge of winning it all in just my first full year running Let’s Go Tribe. I’ve succumbed, multiple times, and yet it keeps being recommended. Yes, we're dealing with human beings and not spins of the roulette wheel or market commodities, but in general terms the fact that the Cubs won the last two games doesn't make it more likely that they'll lose (or win) the next game.Ever since the official MLB YouTube channel uploaded a clip of the Rajai Davis’ home run in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, it can’t seem to stop trying to get me to watch. Consider this to be loosely related to the Gambler's Fallacy. That's a reset, as reflected by near-.500 record in Game 7. This is because they're not down 3-1 they're tied 3-3. There's a larger and fairly obvious point here, and the point is that it no longer makes sense to think of the Cubs as a team coming back down 3-1. In other words, teams like the Cubs who evened up the series after being down 3-2 are 10-11 in Game 7. Of those 21 teams to come back and tie the series at 3-3, 10 win Game 7. Of the teams down 3-2 and playing Game 6 on the road, 21 out of 47 forced a Game 7 (the 44.7 percent of teams mentioned in the bullet point just above this one).The Cubs on Tuesday night beat those odds. The team down 3-2 and playing Game 6 on the road wins Game 6 just 44.7 percent of the time.

Of teams down 3-2 in a best-of-seven and playing Games 6 and 7 on the road (again, this describes the 2016 Cubs), 21.3 percent went on to win the series.

Stated another way, 22 of those 44 teams extended the series to at least six games.

Teams down 3-1 and playing Game 5 at home, as the Cubs did, have won Game 5 50 percent of the time.

As mentioned, just 13.6 of teams (six out of 44) down 3-1 and playing Game 6 and 7 on the road came back from down 3-1.

As noted, they're most of the way there.īased on that (fairly small) sample of teams faced with similar straits - i.e., being down 3-1 in a best-of-seven playoff matchup - here are the kind of historical odds the Cubs have faced along the way. That, of course, is what the Cubs are trying to do. More to the point, just six of 44 teams down 3-1 have come back to win the series while playing Games 6 and 7 on the road. So what does history say about such unlikely comeback journeys in a best-of-seven postseason series? Via the very excellent we learn that just 12 of 81 teams down 3-1 in a best-of-seven playoff series have come back to win said series. We also know that the Cubs won Games 5 and 6, so two-thirds of that comeback journey is complete. We've known since the outcome of Game 4 in Chicago that the Cubs would be tasked with coming back from down 3-1 against the Indians.