Cleveland completed a three-game sweep of Boston with a 4-3 win on Monday thanks to a clutch home run from Coco Crisp. 315/.401/.620 with 38 home runs and 48 doubles in the greatest farewell season in baseball history, but couldn't lead the Red Sox past the Indians. Toronto then met the Texas Rangers in the ALDS for a second straight year, with the same result, only this time in three games, a Blue Jays sweep.ĭavid Ortiz hit. Both the Blue Jays and Orioles won 89 games in 2016, and needed extra innings to decide the AL Wild Card Game in Toronto with Edwin Encarnacion hitting a three-run home run to send Jays fans home happy.

The American League East was well represented in October, with both Wild Card teams coming from the division. The Cubs were tested by the Giants, but ultimately dispatched San Francisco in four games in the NLDS, ending the Giants' even-year championship run.Ĭhicago then beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, winners of the NL West for four straight seasons, in the NLCS in six games, capturing the Cubs' first pennant in 71 years. The Mets couldn't give the Cubs a playoff rematch, instead falling at home to the San Francisco Giants in the NL Wild Card Game, behind a shutout from Madison Bumgarner and a three-run home run in the ninth inning by Conor Gillaspie. The Cubs lost to the New York Mets in the National League Championship Series in 2015, but are favored to win the World Series this year. Plenty of stories abound with the teams that did make it to the postseason this year, led by the juggernaut Cubs, a 103-win superteam who made it to their first World Series since 1945. But in the end there stood just one, the Chicago Cubs, who beat the Cleveland Indians in seven games for their first World Series championship since 1908. CT on CSN Chicago.The 2016 MLB playoffs are here, starting with 10 teams vying for World Series supremacy. CT), runs through the streets of downtown Chicago, and culminates with a celebration in Grant Park at 1 p.m.Ĭoverage of the parade will be broadcast nationally on both MLB Network and during SportsCenter on ESPN, and online on MLB.com. The parade starts officially at noon ET (11 a.m. “2016 is the year for the Cubs and the generations of fans who have been waiting to the fly the World Series W. “The City of Chicago could not be more proud of the Cubs, and we are going to throw them - and their fans - a celebration worthy of the history the team made last night,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday. The Chicago Cubs returned home as conquering heroes on Thursday after winning their first World Series in 108 years, and the club will be celebrated with a parade through the streets of Chicago on Friday.įollow all the best moments from the parade right here!

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