2016 world series game 7 first pitch series#

(Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)Ĭhicago Cubs starting pitcher Kyle Hendricks (28) delivers in the first inning on Nov. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)Ĭleveland Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor (12) is safe at first base as first baseman Anthony Rizzo (44) can't make the catch in the first inning on Nov. Kim / Chicago Tribune)Ĭhicago Cubs center fielder Dexter Fowler (24) rounds the bases after his solo home run in the first inning on Nov.

2016 world series game 7 first pitch series#

(Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)Ĭhicago Cubs Dexter Fowler (24) hits a solo home run in the first inning of Game 7 of the World Series on Nov. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.īleacher Nation is supported in part by affiliate advertising programs, which you can learn more about here.Chicago Cubs center fielder Dexter Fowler (24) reacts after his solo home run in the first inning on Nov. It's just a media site that happens to cover MLB, the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Bears, the Chicago Bulls, and the Chicago Blackhawks.īleacher Nation is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program. None of MLB, the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, the Cubs, the Bears, the Bulls, the White Sox, or the Blackhawks have endorsed, supported, directed, or participated in the creation of the content at this site, or in the creation of the site itself. Bleacher Nation is a private media site, and it is not affiliated in any way with Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, the Chicago Cubs, the Chicago Bears, the Chicago Bulls, the Chicago White Sox, or the Chicago Blackhawks. © 2022 Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and Obsessionīleacher Nation Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. It was, in fact, such a hard pitch to hit that nobody had gotten a hit against Chapman within 6 inches of that location this year. The pitch Guyer hit wasn’t fat it wasn’t even likely to be a strike, with similar pitches getting called balls 90 percent of the time. His release point, at 6.36 feet from the ground, was a pinkie fingernail from his norm, far less than his normal game-to-game variance. The pitches’ horizontal movement, at an average of 4.3 inches, was almost identical to his pitch movement (4.6 inches) during the season. The average velocity of those 13 pitches was 100 on the nose, just slightly slower than the 100.6 Chapman had averaged in the postseason before that appearance. The first pitch Chapman threw, to Brandon Guyer, was 100 mph.

Diving into many of the games key moments, granularly, Miller’s recap of Game Seven might be the best, most unique take on the historic event I’ve yet indulged.įor one small example, about the two-out RBI double Brandon Guyer hit in the 8th inning off of Aroldis Chapman, which set up the eventual game-tying shot by Rajai Davis, Miller points out how Chapman-like Chapman was during that at bat, contrary to what you might believe: The game in question, of course, was the 2016 World Series finale – or, as Miller puts it, the Masterpiece Fall Classic.

I am shaking my head as I read it.” – Brett Taylor.īrett never intended on sharing those comments with you at the top of this post, which he’d written to me this morning, but I thought his unfiltered enthusiasm might serve to express just how excellent we found the referenced article to be.īrett already twice mentioned Sam Miller’s article on “the greatest baseball game” he’s ever seen in this morning’s Bullets, but he’s asked me to share it on its own, once again. All the tiny things that went this way instead of that way, and how dramatically it changed the game. “I’m not exactly sure where to go with this, I just know that it’s SO FREAKING GOOD we have to share it in a post.