“It’s in the bag, it’s ours, that’s all,” Leo Durocher said, in the aftermath of the “shot heard ‘round the world” –when Bobby Thomson’s bottom of the ninth homer won the game for the NY Giants to beat rival Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951.
Now, the 2016 Chicago Cubs have won the Central Division. They did so when the San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals a few days ago. That magic number had been one and now, it’s done. Then the next day, the Cubs rallied and beat the stubborn Milwaukee Brewers with Miguel Montero’s dramatic walk-off home run to the left-field bleachers.