Top 108 Moments for the 2016 Cubs (Now complete!)

[17 Seconds]

what's up with naquin's route in the second one?

[bukie]

what's up with naquin's route in the second one?

It was a quick route to the bench for the remainder of the series.

[bukie]

#10: Hendricks and Lester Tag-Team Indians for 7 2/3 Innings

 

 

Why on the list? - The Cubs had clawed their way back to even in the series, so it was all hands on deck for Game 7. Hendricks got the start and nearly got through 5, giving up just one earned run on four hits, eliminating two on the basepaths, one on a double play and the other on a pickoff:

 

 

For the third time around the order for the Indians, the Cubs went to Lester, who gave up 3 hits in 3 innings (twice through the heart of the order), one of which went 5 feet and was misplayed by Ross, along with a slow roller to Russell that he couldn't make a play on for his last batter of the night. Between the two of them, they combined for 23 outs and allowed one earned run, giving the Cubs fans a reason to be optimistic when they took the lead early on.

[Sammys Boombox]

Please don't take this as a complaint, Bukie, because this is all awesome. One moment that I'll never forget that is not on this list was seeing Arrieta, Lester and Lackey walk out to the bullpen during Game 7.

 

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This shows part of it, but there was also a shot of the relievers and starters all high fiving each other when they got to the bullpen. Most dramatic walk from the dugout to the bullpen I've ever seen.

[jersey cubs fan]

Please don't take this as a complaint, Bukie, because this is all awesome. One moment that I'll never forget that is not on this list was seeing Arrieta, Lester and Lackey walk out to the bullpen during Game 7.

 

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This shows part of it, but there was also a shot of the relievers and starters all high fiving each other when they got to the bullpen. Most dramatic walk from the dugout to the bullpen I've ever seen.

is this in the previous post?

[Bull]

it is now.

[Sammy Sofa]

Uh, it was there when I saw bukie's post at 7 AM.

[bukie]

It should be in #10 there. Did the link break?

[jersey cubs fan]

It should be in #10 there. Did the link break?

no, it was there the whole time, which is why I thought it was weird the next person mentioned it as something that was missing.

[WrigleyField 22]

Everyone just needs to let Bukie do his damn job. He doesnt call you at work and make suggestions on your work. Smh.

[jersey cubs fan]

[bukie]

I'm just disappointed that barely anything from my top 10 has made the list so far.

[Sammys Boombox]

Well, crap...

 

I was taking care of a 1 week old and a 2 year old at the time I was reading his post and totally missed it. Apologies.

[bukie]

#9: Cubs Put Game at Ease With Three-Run Fifth

 

 

Why on the list? - Going into the fifth, the Cubs did hold a 2-0 lead (and Arrieta had a no-hitter going), but the game was tense, and you felt like the Cubs should have been ahead by more. Bauer was out of the game at this point, and the Cubs teed off on McAllister and Shaw. Rizzo started things off with a four pitch walk, followed by a clutch Ben Zobrist double (this is said a lot this postseason) that is misplayed into a triple by Chisenhall that scores Rizzo standing to make it 3-0. Schwarber followed with a sharp single to center off Shaw to score Zobrist, then advanced to second on a wild pitch during a Baez strikeout. With two outs, Contreras hit a routine grounder to second, but hustled it out of the box to beat the throw to first after Kipnis juggled it (for the Indians' first error of the postseason, another example of why errors are meaningless and stupid stats, as you see what Chisenhall just did prior). Shaw then lost the ability to throw strikes, as both Soler and Russell walked to drive in the 5th and final run for the Cubs, putting the game away.

[bukie]

100 moments down, 8 to go, 3 days to Opening Day.

 

I assume these will be pretty easy to guess from here.

[treebird]

100 moments down, 8 to go, 3 days to Opening Day.

 

I assume these will be pretty easy to guess from here.

 

every time one of these goes up and it's not a video of me in my underwear starting gam thread for game seven, i get more excited that it might be number one

[bukie]

100 moments down, 8 to go, 3 days to Opening Day.

 

I assume these will be pretty easy to guess from here.

 

every time one of these goes up and it's not a video of me in my underwear starting gam thread for game seven, i get more excited that it might be number one

 

 

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[bukie]

#8: Contreras Extends Lead With Long Double

 

 

Why on the list? - Just after what might have bee the shortest sac fly in history (thanks Rajai Davis), Contreras hits one high off the wall (thanks again, Rajai Davis!) to put across an insurance run after the Indians had just tied it the previous half inning. This was also the fourth hard-hit ball off Kluber, but the Indians pressed their luck with him just long enough to allow a 5th to lead off the following inning for Javy. This was the 5th most important hit by WPA of the World Series.

[UMFan83]

Definitely a hit people forget about. I remember I was just happy that we got the lead back that inning and wasn't really expecting anything else when all the sudden Willy crushed one.

[squally1313]

Hit definitely gets overlooked, but the part where he turns towards the bench to say a few words and nod back at them is ingrained in my memory. It's so amazing that he came out of nowhere to be this stud catcher who's personality fits in perfectly with the rest of the team.

[Andy]

Definitely a hit people forget about. I remember I was just happy that we got the lead back that inning and wasn't really expecting anything else when all the sudden Willy crushed one.

He hadn't done much of anything all series, to the point where I legitimately was fine with Maddon starting Ross if he wanted to.

[bukie]

Definitely a hit people forget about. I remember I was just happy that we got the lead back that inning and wasn't really expecting anything else when all the sudden Willy crushed one.

He hadn't done much of anything all series, to the point where I legitimately was fine with Maddon starting Ross if he wanted to.

Both Contreras and Ross had one hit coming into game 7.

[Andy]

Definitely a hit people forget about. I remember I was just happy that we got the lead back that inning and wasn't really expecting anything else when all the sudden Willy crushed one.

He hadn't done much of anything all series, to the point where I legitimately was fine with Maddon starting Ross if he wanted to.

Both Contreras and Ross had one hit coming into game 7.

The rationale was that if we weren't going to get much from the catcher position offensively, I wanted the best defender in there.

 

Naturally, we got 3 RBI from catchers in game 7.

[bukie]

Yeah, in a bit of an oddity, the Cubs got 8 RBI from 8 different players in game 7, and none were Bryant or Schwarber. Bryant scored twice, though.

[Bull]

Yeah, in a bit of an oddity, the Cubs got 8 RBI from 8 different players in game 7, and none were Bryant or Schwarber. Bryant scored twice, though.

So good. Top to bottom.