They’re missing two of their three frontline starters and they’re missing a 29-year-old outfielder who was third in the AL MVP vote two years ago and their current outfield is really ordinary and, if you were to stack things up position by position, they’d come out ahead of their opponent, what, twice?
And yet last night the Indians won the first World Series game in Wrigley Field since before Bobby Jones was born.
The wind was blowing out and Cleveland’s starter gave up more home runs than all but two pitchers in all of baseball this year and the Cubs had the third-best OPS in the Major Leagues.