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Jason Kipnis dribbled a ball in front of the plate and Ross threw it away, which put runners on second and third. Lester and Ross seemed like guys who could take charge of the game, but. But plate umpire Sam Holbrook called it ball three and Santana wound up walking. I mean, that’s strike three and it’s not close. Lester had relieved Kyle Hendricks, who should have had Carlos Santana struck out and the inning ended but for this horrendous call: Everyone knew this would be Ross’ final game as a major-league baseball player. When Jon Lester entered the game in the bottom of the fifth inning, David Ross, his personal catcher, also entered. (Personally, Game 7 resolved that fear for me. Andrew Miller relieved him and the Cubs scored another run that inning on an RBI single by Anthony Rizzo. That was also the last pitch Kluber threw. It gave the Cubs what seemed at the time a comfortable 4-1 lead. That was a blast - 402 feet to the opposite field. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. This is what Dexter did with Kluber’s fourth pitch.

Indians ace Corey Kluber was on the mound and Dexter Fowler led off the game for the Cubs.

So the Cubs are in rare company here to begin with, and it hadn’t been done by anyone in 52 years when the Cubs had their three-homer Game 7. Long balls by Elston Howard, Bill Skowron and a pair from Yogi Berra comprise the most by any team in a Game 7. The Bronx Bombers hit four homers in Game 7 in ‘56. It is the only Game 7 that ranks higher on an all-time Game 7 list than the Cubs’ in 2016, in Mike’s view, and I concur. Rocky Nelson, Hal Smith and Bill Mazeroski homered in what is the only World Series Game 7 in history won with a walkoff homer. Mickey Mantle, Clete Boyer and Phil Linz homered, but the Cardinals won the game 7-5 and became champions. Only three other teams have hit three or more home runs in a World Series Game 7 - and one of those three ballclubs lost the game! Those three teams are: the “greatest” of the three.įirst, this game belongs on this list in and of itself. Then you can decide which one was your favorite, or the most important, or. So I’m going to do this as a three-for-one. Could I have put all three of them separately on this list? Sure, but that would have put two other worthy long balls off of it. And I sat and I thought and Mike Bojanowski and I discussed this and at the end, I simply couldn’t decide between the three of them.Īll three were important in their own way. The Chicago Cubs hit three home runs in World Series Game 7 in 2016. This article is another cheat, I know it, and I apologize in advance.