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Cubs Stare Looming Heartbreak in the Face and Deliver Clutch Game 1 Message

Holy crap, as the Los Angeles Dodgers may as well have said late Saturday night.

The Cubs took the Dodgers’ best punch as the curtain opened on this National League Championship Series and came roaring back anyway. Easy, peasy. The Dodgers trailed, tied it and were ohsoclose to seizing Game 1 with Clayton Kershaw set to start Game 2—and wouldn’t that have been something, a real possibility of sticking the Cubs in a two-game hole heading back to Los Angeles?

And then came the freeway pileup.

“It stings a little bit, absolutely,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.