The Cubs manager created the starting nine while sitting in a coffee shop in Chicago. What was the inspiration?
"You know I like to go right, left, right, left," he said of mixing left-handed and right-handed hitters. "I still like [Bryant at] two. After all, he was the MVP, so that was OK. Rizzo, I think if you were to ask him any day of the week, he likes hitting third, and then Zobrist [fourth]. Everybody wanted Zo out of the four-hole until it was the seventh game of the World Series, and he did pretty good."
Zobrist delivered a game-winning RBI double in the 10th inning of Game 7 that lifted the Cubs to an 8-7 victory over the Indians and the team's first World Series championship since 1908.