Easier said than done, but it is what it is and we have a lot more to play for throughout the rest of the season. I just have to continue to do my best to move forward and put this one behind me.
It was lack of command, lack of getting ahead, which led to lack of conviction. “I’m frustrated with myself for not giving the team a chance to win from early on in the game. “There were some elements (high winds) to deal with today, but ultimately it starts and stops with me,” Bieber said. The 26-year-old right-hander, who led all of Major League Baseball with 122 Ks in 2020, and who posted 134 strikeouts in 96 2/3 innings last season, pitched in 87 games since 2018, 85 of them starts, and never went without at least one strikeout before getting clubbed by the Blue Jays. Whenever that dark day was, it occurred before he wore an Indians/Guardians uniform.
He was asked about that odd statistic and said he could not remember the last time it happened. It was a battle the entire time, but it was a battle for the entire staff.”īieber faced 21 batters without registering a strikeout. “He was having a hard time commanding and throwing strikes. “You don’t look up too many games when Biebs is in the fourth inning and strike-to-ball is like 50 percent,” manager Terry Francona said.
If they manage to win Game 7, they will be the the first team since the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates to rally from a 3-1 Series deficit by winning the final two games on the road. Cleveland fans are almost as hungry as Cubs fans, as the Indians haven't won the World Series since 1948.Twins use nine-run inning to beat virus-hit Guardians This means that Chicago Cubs fans are one game away from a world championship that has eluded them since 1908. That was it until the ninth inning when Chicago got two more runs thanks to Anthony Rizzo's homer which extended Chicago's lead to 9-2.Ĭleveland got one more in the bottom of the ninth to make the final score 9-3. In the fifth, Cleveland scored again when Kipnis hit his second home run of the World Series, pulling the Indians to 7-2. One out later, Kipnis scored on Mike Napoli's single. The Indians got one back when Jason Kipnis doubled off the left-center-field wall leading off the fourth inning for Cleveland's first hit against Cubs starter Jake Arrieta. It was the first-ever grand slam by a Cubs player in the World Series. Russell's six RBIs tied the record for a World Series game. The most valuable player of the game had to be 22-year-old shortstop Addison Russell who had six runs batted in (RBIs) through three innings, including a grand slam off Cleveland reliever Dan Otero that gave the Chicago Cubs a 7-0 lead. The ball fell between center fielder Tyler Naquin and right fielder Lonnie Chisenhall when they failed to communicate properly. Anthony Rizzo and Ben Zobrist then followed with singles and both came home on Addison Russell's pop-fly double to right-center.
Kris Bryant hit a 433-foot home run to left field, putting Chicago up 1-0. Going into Game 6, the Cleveland Indians needed just one win to clinch the World Series, but the Cubs had different plans.Ĭhicago got three runs in the first inning off of pitcher Josh Tomlin, all with two outs. Chicago baseball fans breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday night after the Cubs evened the series with Cleveland to force a Game 7 in the World Series.
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