{"id":9373,"date":"2016-10-22T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/chicago-cubs-beat-los-angeles-dodgers-to-enter-world-series-for-first-time-since-1945\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T04:14:00","slug":"chicago-cubs-beat-los-angeles-dodgers-to-enter-world-series-for-first-time-since-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/chicago-cubs-beat-los-angeles-dodgers-to-enter-world-series-for-first-time-since-1945\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs Beat Los Angeles Dodgers To Enter World Series For First Time Since 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/23\/499015624\/chicago-cubs-beat-los-angeles-dodgers-to-enter-first-world-series-since-1945?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">The Associated Press<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/23\/499015624\/chicago-cubs-beat-los-angeles-dodgers-to-enter-first-world-series-since-1945?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/10\/23\/ap_16297102420683_custom-2540bb8b79467bd622abf43eea6e8685b56bc52b-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Chicago Cubs players celebrate after Game 6 of the National League baseball championship series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Saturday, in Chicago. <strong>David J. Phillip\/AP<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span>David J. Phillip\/AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cursed by a Billy Goat, bedeviled by Bartman and crushed by decades of disappointment, the Chicago Cubs are at long last headed back to the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Hendricks outpitched Clayton Kershaw, Anthony Rizzo and Willson Contreras homered early and the Cubs won their first pennant since 1945, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 Saturday night in Game 6 of the NL Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>The drought ended when closer Aroldis Chapman got Yasiel Puig to ground into a double play, setting off a wild celebration at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking their first title since 1908, the Cubs open the World Series at Cleveland on Tuesday night. The Indians haven&#8217;t won since 1948.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This city deserves it so much,&#8221; Rizzo said. &#8220;We got four more big ones to go, but we&#8217;re going to enjoy this. We&#8217;re going to the World Series. I can&#8217;t even believe that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manager Joe Maddon&#8217;s team, deemed World Series favorites since spring training, topped the majors with 103 wins, then beat the Giants and Dodgers in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs took their 17th pennant. They had not earned a World Series trip since winning a doubleheader opener 4-3 at Pittsburgh on Sept. 29, 1945, to clinch the pennant on the next-to-last day of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The eternal &#8220;wait till next year&#8221; is over. No more dwelling on a past history of failure \u2014 the future is now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re too young. We don&#8217;t care about it,&#8221; star slugger Kris Bryant said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t look into it. This is a new team. This is a completely different time of our lives. We&#8217;re enjoying it and our work&#8217;s just getting started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hendricks pitched two-hit ball for 7 1\/3 innings. Chapman got the final five outs, then threw both arms in the air and got mobbed by teammates and coaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/23\/499015624\/chicago-cubs-beat-los-angeles-dodgers-to-enter-first-world-series-since-1945?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Chicago Cubs Beat Los Angeles Dodgers To Enter World Series For First Time Since 1945\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/23\/499015624\/chicago-cubs-beat-los-angeles-dodgers-to-enter-first-world-series-since-1945?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/10\/23\/499015624\/chicago-cubs-beat-los-angeles-dodgers-to-enter-first-world-series-since-1945?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/10\/23\/ap_16297102420683_custom-2540bb8b79467bd622abf43eea6e8685b56bc52b-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Chicago Cubs players celebrate after Game 6 of the National League baseball championship series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Saturday, in Chicago. <strong>David J. Phillip\/AP<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span>David J. Phillip\/AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cursed by a Billy Goat, bedeviled by Bartman and crushed by decades of disappointment, the Chicago Cubs are at long last headed back to the World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Hendricks outpitched Clayton Kershaw, Anthony Rizzo and Willson Contreras homered early and the Cubs won their first pennant since 1945, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 Saturday night in Game 6 of the NL Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>The drought ended when closer Aroldis Chapman got Yasiel Puig to ground into a double play, setting off a wild celebration at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking their first title since 1908, the Cubs open the World Series at Cleveland on Tuesday night. The Indians haven&#8217;t won since 1948.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This city deserves it so much,&#8221; Rizzo said. &#8220;We got four more big ones to go, but we&#8217;re going to enjoy this. We&#8217;re going to the World Series. I can&#8217;t even believe that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manager Joe Maddon&#8217;s team, deemed World Series favorites since spring training, topped the majors with 103 wins, then beat the Giants and Dodgers in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs took their 17th pennant. They had not earned a World Series trip since winning a doubleheader opener 4-3 at Pittsburgh on Sept. 29, 1945, to clinch the pennant on the next-to-last day of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The eternal &#8220;wait till next year&#8221; is over. No more dwelling on a past history of failure \u2014 the future is now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re too young. We don&#8217;t care about it,&#8221; star slugger Kris Bryant said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t look into it. This is a new team. This is a completely different time of our lives. We&#8217;re enjoying it and our work&#8217;s just getting started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hendricks pitched two-hit ball for 7 1\/3 innings. Chapman got the final five outs, then threw both arms in the air and got mobbed by teammates and coaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}