Cubs break it open late against Dodgers

The triumph at a warm Dodger Stadium gave them a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.

Wrigley Field’s Friendly Confines may not be so friendly for the Dodgers for Game 6 or, if they can get that far, Game 7.

By taking two of three in Los Angeles, the 103-win Cubs have given themselves leeway.

CHICAGO (AP) – All that’s left for the Chicago Cubs to do is make history. We just have to go out there and play our game and have good at-bats off a left-handed pitcher. It’s within our reach right now.

Also worth noting: It will allow Cubs fans to party all night without having to go to work the next day. Then the wheels fell off and it’ll frankly be surprising if even a call to AAA can get this thing rolling again.

“Going back to the last series, my slider hasn’t been “normal” even though I was getting the results”, Blanton said, adding that he has been trying to find “fixes” during the limited down time between postseason games.

The Cubs have a chance to do something they haven’t done in 71 years Saturday night at Wrigley Field: win the National League pennant. The biggest difference is that Kershaw, who acquired a reputation for postseason struggles over the past several seasons, has begun to erase that reputation this fall while he attempts to reach his first World Series. “We’re down a game”, he said, “but we’ve won on the road before, we’ve won two games before”. Delgado says.

His plan was to sleep outside, weathering the overnight drop in temperatures, the late night noise from cars and nearby bar patrons, and then at 8 a.m. Saturday morning get in line for hopefully four tickets – if there are any available.

In the two games against Kershaw and Hill, the Chicago Cubs scored zero runs, and batted.100.

“It’s kind of nice”, Kershaw said. The Cubs are hoping to avenge their 1-0 loss in Game 2, and avoid a winner-take-all Game 7 on Sunday. He came through with two decent starts against Washington in the NLDS and closed out the series-clinching win.

“You go out there and you’re making the same pitches, it’s the same lineup, same hitters”, said Hendricks, who finished the regular season 16-8 with a 2.13 ERA in 30 starts. This time, the three-time Cy Young Award victor will be working on an extra day of rest in an elimination game for the Dodgers. In the first, Hernandez danced off first base, stretching his lead beyond what anyone would consider normal – though he always tended to lean back toward the bag at the last minute, as if he didn’t think he could really get away with it.

“The defining moment for me in this game was when he fielded that bunt, threw to first and … yeah, he wanted that ball, he wanted to make a point with that”, Ben Zobrist said.

“We’ve got to face one of the best”, catcher David Ross said. “Obviously we don’t want to put it all on him”. The team that has scored first all 10 of this year’s NL and AL Championship Series games has won every time. Legend has it that a Chicago tavern owner named Bill “Billy Goat” Sianis pronounced a curse on the club on October 6 of that year – just a month after the end of World War II. The Cubs enter Game 6 with a three games to two lead, with the Dodgers starting Clayton Kershaw against Chicago’s Kyle Hendricks. They lead the best-of-seven NLCS 3-2.

Chicago was five outs from the World Series with Mark Prior on the mound only to see everything come apart.

The ball deflected off Bartman’s hands.

“We’ve heard the history”, center fielder Dexter Fowler said.