They will face the winner of the Los Angeles Dodgers-New York Mets matchup. Up-and-comers all season under their first-year manager, Maddon's bunch of wild-card Cubs has arrived. Then they took the celebration back onto the field as fans went crazy. "Hopefully, this is just a taste of what's to come."Īs the music blared and the strobe lights flashed in the clubhouse, Cubs players and coaches soaked one another. "They deserve it," Rizzo said in the middle of the party. When closer Hector Rondon struck out Stephen Piscotty on a ball in the dirt and catcher Miguel Montero made the tag to end it, the Cubs came streaming out of the dugout. The crowd started roaring before the first pitch.
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"I can only imagine what the next thing is going to look like," said Lester, the lefty who won the World Series with Boston twice. As fans gathered in the pulsating neighborhood, the marquee at Wrigley Field said it all: "Cubs Win."Įven President Barack Obama - who roots for Chicago's other team - got in on the celebration, tweeting his congratulations and noting "even (at)whitesox fans are rooting for you!" Only once since they brought the World Series home in 1908 had the Cubs won a playoff series, and never before had they finished the job at their century-old ballpark.īut with a raucous, towel-waving crowd jamming the Friendly Confines, the North Siders gave generations of fans exactly what they wanted.
"This is all just baseball fantasy, right?" a drenched chairman Tom Ricketts said.
Louis Cardinals 6-4 Tuesday to win the NL Division Series in four games. Kyle Schwarber, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez homered and the fresh Cubs clinched a postseason series at Wrigley Field for the first time ever, beating the St. Rocker Eddie Vedder partied on the mound.įor the Chicago Cubs and their ever-hopeful fans, this bash was a long time in the making. Jon Lester sprayed champagne with his young son. Cubs beat Cardinals in Game 4 to take NLDSĬHICAGO - Joe Maddon posed for a selfie on the field with his wife.
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