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But in pure baseball terms, it's an inning that allowed the Cubs to steal the Tribe's thunder and seal the way we think about 2016. The inning in-between Rajai Davis' moment of game-tying glory and Jason Heyward's Knute Rockne-like role in the visiting weight room gets lost in the shuffle of the Game 7 narrative. This is the story of what happened just before the rain put a pause in the proceedings. To many, that difference emanated from a 17-minute rain delay that's been romanticized in Cubs lore as the long-suffering franchise's moment of spiritual awakening and literal cleansing, en route to the 8-7 triumph in the 10th. 'I think we're all kidding ourselves if we think the difference between the winning and the losing is big,' Hoyer says.

Had that happened, the sense of urgency currently surrounding a small-market Cleveland club with the longest active championship drought in the game would instead apply to a Cubs team perhaps still trying to shake the curse conversation. In another world, with another swing on a hanging slider, Kipnis would have represented - to Hoyer and to all the other Cubs fans walking Michigan Avenue that day - not just an October opponent but the embodiment of an unkillable curse, the Chicago kid who lived on the same street as Steve Bartman and grew up to keep the billy goat breathing. The unspoken but understood undertone of the Kipnis-Hoyer conversation and this Cubs-Indians reunion is how thin the line separating these squads really was. 'At the core of it,' says Kipnis, 'we're still baseball kids who know how great that Series was.'

So it was in that Streeterville scene in which a ring-bearer and a runner-up could converse cordially, and so it will be on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Cleveland's Progressive Field, where the Indians and Cubs will have their first formal meeting since one of the greatest games any of us has ever seen. He’s been an excellent clubhouse presence, most notably around Jose Ramirez.Shared respect emanates from being on separate sides of an enrapturing experience like 2016's four-hour, 28-minute Game 7. This type of contract prevents the Indians from entering into a long-term commitment, but it also keeps Napoli around. I’d only offer another one year contract around $10 million. The Tribe should try and resign him, but must be prudent in their offer. The free-agent market will dictate weather or not Napoli returns, but make no mistake about it, teams will take at look at his numbers from September and October and will probably be hesitant to offer him a huge multiyear deal.

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Napoli will be a free agent at season’s end, and this could be the last game he plays in an Indians uniform. If there was ever a time to bust out of a slump, it would be Game 7. 143 with 28 strikeouts while posting a dismal. Unfortunately, his slump dates back to September. Some were a little surprised to see Terry Francona bench Napoli when the series shifted to Chicago, but if you look at the stats, it shouldn’t have been a huge shocker.Ĭurrently, Napoli is batting just.