2016 world series game 7 scoring summary

It featured a clutch and improbable late inning comeback to tie a game that seemed out of reach ( Rajai Davis‘ 8th inning homer off of Aroldis Chapman), and it ended with the tying run on base and the winning run at the plate for nail-biting. It went into extra innings, only the fifth time that’d ever happened. It was a Game 7, which only happens about one in every four Series. On the “plus” side for its lofty status Game 7 featured two long suffering franchises and was historic just on its own because of it. However, I’m skeptical of calling *anything* that just happened, the best ever, so quickly after it ended. The normally sane Jayson Stark just posted that 2016’s Game 7 was “ the Greatest ever game” in the long history of the sport. The question here is where does Game 7 rank historically? We all suffer from recency bias, and many (most) of us were not around for such other classic games (1924 World Series game 7 going 12 innings and Walter Johnson pitching 4 innings on one day’s rest, 1960 game 7 featuring Mazeroski‘s famous walk-off homer, or Bobby Thompson‘s “Shot Heard ‘Round the World” to win the 1951 NL Pennant).

The Cubs win was obviously historic no need to repeat all the other post-game analysis going on to that end.

So, we just saw a pretty darn good World Series, culminating in a very good Game 7. Zobrist’s hit won it for the Cubs, and won him the series MVP award.

2016 world series game 7 scoring summary