Ski hats and parkas are in full force, says Tom, and of course, the coats and headgear are mostly in the Indians' red, white and blue colors. The temperature at game time was 50 degrees. The Cavs! The Indians! It's beyond festive. Tonight they raised a championship banner from their historic 2015-16 season when they became the first NBA team to overcome a 3-1 game deficit and win the series against the Golden State Warriors.īut enough of basketball - my colleague Tom Goldman is on the scene at Progressive Field, and he summed up the mood inside the ballpark this way: "You can see it in the eyes of every fan here in Cleveland. That is Quicken Loans Arena, where the National Basketball Association's current kings, the Cleveland Cavaliers, are kicking off their 2016-17 season. Chicago Cubs beat Cleveland Indians (8-7). Still, with all due respect to baseball's Chicago Cubs, Major League Baseball's best regular-season team with 103 victories this year, tonight is a special night in Cleveland.īefore the first pitch, Indians fans streaming into Progressive Field were bouncing off the vibes from the arena right next door. Chicago White Sox Chi White Sox Cleveland Guardians Cleveland Detroit Tigers Detroit. Typically, a World Series generates its own excitement. (The last time the Indians played in the World Series was 1997 and they lost in a seven-game series to the then-Florida Marlins.) As the Two-Way reported earlier, it's been 68 years since the Indians last won the Series and 108 years since the Cubs were baseball's champions. The home-team Indians jumped out to 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning after Cubs starter Jon Lester walked the bases full and then gave up an infield hit and hit a batter.īoth teams have waited decades to call themselves champions. Game 1 of the 2016 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians is underway. In the eighth inning, the Cubs put two runners on base but again failed to score. In the seventh inning, they loaded the bases with no outs, but Indians reliever Andrew Miller shut them down. The Cubs twice threatened to get back in the game. He struck again in the bottom of the eighth inning hitting a three-run homer, again to left field, off reliever Hector Rondon. ![]() ![]() The Indians added another run when Perez hit a home run to left field off Lester in the fourth inning. AP Cleveland's Roberto Perez hit two home runs in the Indians' 6-0 win over the Chicago Cubs in Game 1 of the World Series. 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.
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