Was 2016 World Series Game 7 Really The Greatest Baseball Game Ever?

Will the 2016 World Series will go down in history as the best baseball game in history?

Game 7 of the 2016 World Series will go down as the greatest baseball game ever.

The stage couldn’t have been set any better. Two teams history has kicked in the gut for longer than many of us have been alive was finally going to get the chance to cleanse itself of past failures–and the game itself didn’t disappoint.

The Indians hadn’t won in 67 years. The Cubs hadn’t won in 108 years, dating back to the Theodore Roosevelt administration.

The Cubs entered the Series as baseball’s best team, but the Lovable Losers were trying to overcome a 3-1 deficit.

Not many had the Indians making the postseason, winning in the first round and then even making it to the Fall Classic.

So what mad Game 7 at Progressive Field so legendary?

Game 7 is THE game most kids dream of playing in at their local ball field.

Despite what the NFL wants you to believe, the sport is still our national pastime. How one performs in the Fall Classic will be remembered for the ages. No sport banks on its rich history as much as basely, and it’s for good reason.

Grandfathers and Gradmother’s have passed down their love of the game, which was instilled in them by their parents.

And if you were at Wednesday’s Game, you’ll be talking about it for the rest of your life, no matter how your team faired in the box score.

But history alone isn’t why the game was awesome. If you watched the Cubs and Indians battle into extra innings, you’ll never forget the roller coaster ride that it was.

So much was a stake for two of baseball’s oldest franchises and drama filled the night’s air.

Indians pitcher Corey Kluber was looking to become the first pitcher to win three World Series games since Mickey Lolich hurled the Tigers past the Cardinals in 1968. A win would’ve put Kluber rarified air.

But it wasn’t meant to be, as Dexter Folwer got the game started with a lead-off home run.

The anxiety attacks and momentum swings fans in attendance endured the next 4-plus hours assuredly lost many to lose their voice.

At first, it looked as if the Cubs would make quick work of the Tribe, but the resilient Tribe found a way to hang around.

Unbelievably, the Cubs did what no one else had done this season: Hit Andrew Miller.

Miller and Kluber gave up six runs in Game 7. Before that fateful night, the duo had surrendered just four runs through the entire postseason.

But when the Indians looked buried, the Tribe teed off on Aroldis Chapman, who was showing signs of overuse. His fast ball was consistently registering at 98 and 99 miles per hour. At times, he touched 100.

Chapman was still throwing gas, but it wasn’t the high octane 103 mile-per-hour stuff he threw in Game 2.

Rajai Davis got him in the eighth inning with a shot over the left-field to tie the game at 6. The crowd’s reaction had to have broken the sound barrier within Cleveland’s city limits.

But then then history decided to make peace with the Cubs in the top of the 10th.

Baseball’s has other memorable games. “The Giants Win The Pennant” comes to mind, so does Kirk Gibson‘s “I don’t believe what I just saw” homer. Bill Mazeroski‘s hit a freaking  walk-off homer to win the 1960 World Series over the mighty New York Yankees. John Smoltz and Jack Morris pitched to the death in the 1990 World Series, and Game 7 of the 2001 Fall Classic saw the Arizona Diamonds upset the greatest closer of all-time.

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Great games indeed, but nothing like the contest two long-suffering franchises and fan bases got to see Wednesday night.