CHICAGO—They started trickling out of the bars when the game seemed in hand, when they should have known better. They whooped and ran and brought the celebration back to Wrigleyville an hour before their team bathed in champagne 350 miles away. There were six outs to go, and the Cubs had a three-run lead in Game 7 of the World Series, and the ballpark was right there, just glowing and inviting them, this lit-up behemoth down the street.
You couldn’t fault these long-suffering fans, and even when the Indians' Rajai Davis hit a game-tying home run and the ensuing rain delay quieted their songs and pushed them back inside, the neighborhood still pulsed.