#2016 world series game 7 home runs series#

Still, there was just one swing of the bat in it. Rocky Nelson, Hal Smith and Bill Mazeroski homered in what is the only World Series Game 7 in history won with a walkoff homer. So it was past midnight in Cleveland when Michael Martínez came to the plate, nearly four and a half hours after the first pitch, with two men out, a runner on first and the Cubs 8-7 in front. Corey Kluber, who yielded one run over six innings, won his second game. For the fifth time in history, Game 7 of the World Series was going to extra innings.Īnd then, it started to rain, delaying the finale for almost half an hour. Cleveland, with a 3-1 edge in the World Series, also got a home run from Carlos Santana. With the score back to 6-4 in the bottom of the eighth and a runner on second, Rajai Davis hit a home run that tied the game at 6-6. Miguel Montero, the Cubs third catcher of the game. But baseball is a sport like few others, since a single swing of the bat can score one, two, three or even four runs to turn a game on its head. The move backfired when World Series MVP Ben Zobrist lined a double into the left-field corner, scoring Almora to give the Cubs a 7-6 lead. It was 6-3 Cubs by the middle of the eighth, a three-run cushion with six outs needed for victory. More Sports, Baseball and Major League Baseball DVDs available DVD Empire. No sooner had Cubs fans started to believe than Cleveland roared back, with two runs to make it 5-3. 2016 World Series: The Complete Game 7 on DVD (826663174946) from Cinedigm. The Indians tied it in the third, went 3-1 down in the next and 5-1 down by the middle of the fifth.

The Cubs got on the board early, as the first batter up hit a long home run over the centre field wall. Rajai Davis grinds through a long at-bat that ends in a game-tying home run in the 8th inning of Game 7 of the 2016 World SeriesCheck out.