CLEVELAND — It was the wise Satchel Paige who warned, "Don't look back; something might be gaining on you."
Don't the Cleveland Indians, who let a three-games-to-one World Series lead slip away to the Chicago Cubs, know it. Didn't the Los Angeles Dodgers, who fumbled a two-games-to-one National League Championship Series lead, learn it. Weren't the San Francisco Giants, who allowed a 5-2 lead in Game 4 of the NL Division Series to dissipate, guilty of it.
It took 108 years for the Chicago Cubs to catch up to the rest of baseball in the month of October.