Arrieta deals, Cubs awaken, top Indians to even Series at 1

Wednesday’s game will be the last before police are expecting crowds surpassing the 300,000 people who came to Wrigleyville to watch the Cubs win their first National League title in 71 years. Good luck to both teams in this series!

Bauer has pitched just two-thirds of an inning since suffering a laceration to his right pinkie finger while performing “routine maintenance” on a drone on the eve of Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against the Toronto Blue Jays almost two weeks ago. Chicago limited Arrieta’s innings during the regular season hoping to keep him fresh for a late-October run, though, and the World Series would be the flawless time for a resurgence.

Corey Kluber and the Cleveland Indians are off to a pitch-perfect start in the World Series.

Schwarber suffered a torn ACL and LCL in the third game of the regular season.

The primetime matchup scored an 11.3/19 in metered market results, which is the best any World Series Game 2 has done since the major-market Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees faced off in the Bronx on October 29, 2009.

Cleveland took a 1-0 lead in the World Series with a 6-0 victory Tuesday night, so the Cubs will do everything in their power to avoid falling into a bigger hole before getting back to Chicago.

“I really think it’s wise to worry more about what you’re doing as opposed to what the other side’s doing”, Maddon said. At running the bases, he looks pretty good so far.

Including Schwarber, there were six players in the Cubs Game 2 starting lineup that were under the age of 25. Their 5-1 win in Game 2 evened the Series at a game apiece. Schwarber knocked him in with a single, and the Cubs tacked on the third run of the inning on a bases-loaded walk. Pitching with a sizable cut on his pitching hand’s pinky, Bauer gave up a single to Kris Bryant, who then scored on Anthony Rizzo’s double which immediately followed. Tickets to the games in Cleveland, though, are a relative bargain: the average ticket is selling for a little less than $1,700, and seats for Game 2 tonight can be bought for less than $800. Temperatures fell throughout the game, dipping into the low 40s by the late innings.

Fans planning to see the first pitch will need to tune in earlier than expected. Josh Tomlin will start for the Indians opposite Chicago’s Kyle Hendricks.

The 30-year-old Arrieta struck out six and walked three before Kipnis lined a slider up the middle and sped to second. It comes down to executing pitches, executing a game plan. “I mean, it was so cold, I tried to go to the bathroom in the fourth inning and I couldn’t”. You got to respect the opinion of the doctor. “That was the mindset throughout regardless of whether I gave up a hit or not”.