CHICAGO — With the wind blowing out at Wrigley Field for Game 3 of the World Series, the expectation was that the first Fall Classic game on the North Side since 1945 would be a slugfest. Instead, it was anything but, as Cleveland squeaked out a 1-0 win to take a 2-1 series lead.
Cleveland and Chicago played scoreless baseball until the seventh inning, when pinch hitter Coco Crisp singled to right field off Carl Edwards Jr. That only dampened the mood at Wrigley Field briefly, as Bill Murray then came out to sing "Take Me Out To The Ballgame.