It’s an unusual circumstance for the National League team in a World Series to be disadvantaged in the games that it plays at home.
The theory, after all, is that an American League team, which uses a designated hitter throughout most of the year, is forced to sit one of its regulars. But in the case of Kyle Schwarber’s miraculous return to the Chicago Cubs lineup during the World Series, after he tore his ACL and LCL on April 7 and was ruled out for the season, his team found itself in that AL-like conundrum.
Though Schwarber has been cleared to hit, doctors prohibited him from playing in the field.