The biggest curse-ending moment in baseball history demands a deep rewind | 2016 World Series Game 7
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- This is perhaps the most important at-bat in baseball history. With two outs in the bottom of the tenth inning of Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, the Chicago Cubs stared down Cleveland looking for one final out.
The difference between an out and a hit -- potentially a walk-off hit -- would determine which curse reached its end: Chicago's painful, generations-long "Billy Goat Curse" or Cleveland's own long history of defeat on the biggest stage.
This moment was so big that it kind of buried how absurd the whole game was. Chicago had come back to tie the series, but experienced some bad breaks, then fully blew their substantial lead when Rajai Davis homered off typically lights-out closer Aroldis Chapman. After more bad breaks, Chicago finally pulled ahead again thanks to more heroics in the top of the tenth, but in this moment, stood one big hit-- and more scoring from Davis-- away from blowing it all again.
Before we watch this monumental baseball event, we have so much rewinding to do.
Written and produced by Seth Rosenthal
Shot and edited by Jiazhen Zhang
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What a game! What a World Series!
oh crap, hi MLB
Aw, crap. MLB's here. Watch out, folks...soon Greg Gibson, the home plate umpire, will be along to motion to both players.
@@roguishpaladin And the Dodgers are anticipating a celebration.
Hi MLB! Punish the Astros...
This is the ultimate praise
This game took several years off my life.
You're not the only one...
Only several? I don't think I'm gonna make it to 50 after sitting through that game.
Worth it
As the game wore on, I was telling my friends that all my medical bills due to heart failure should be forwarded to Joe Maddon.
Davis’ home run caused my soul to leave my body I didn’t speak until the top of the tenth.
Wait, Brandon Guyer did something good without being hit by the ball?
No way
He had a bases loaded HBP in game 1 lol
Brandon Guyer was a Mack in this game. My favorite player 😢 Clutch in a losing effort
Michael Foley happens, lol
you saw that SB Nation video too eh lol
2015 to 2019 world Series teams include: Cubs, Astros, Indians, Nationals, Mets, Royals. Aint that crazy to think of?
Avvura that's what I like about baseball because it's balanced and unpredictable in the postseason compare to the NBA.
@@skipbayless557 Well its starting to change a bit. Golden State came out of nowhere to be a dynasty. Cleveland won a title. Raptors won a title, 76ers and Bucks are at the top of the East. Portland and Denver rising in the West.
@@Avvura Three different teams won the NBA title compare to the teams that you mention that went to the World Series but it's changing a lil bit tho.
Avvura Dodgers and Red Sox?
@@ajb6777 big market teams and Red Sox have won recently. Talking about small market or teams that have sucked for years.
You should rewind Roy Halladays no hitter in the 2010 NLDS
As a Reds fan it still hurts
RIP roy
Roy had the makings of a HOF career. And he was becoming one of my favorite pitchers.
First NLDS birth in 20 years. Get no hit. Thats my life of being a Reds fan, born in 1991.
InGamesWePlay the makings? He was inducted into the hall of fame this year.
@@JoshuaResnick-qd7ln sorry I meant a longer career if he didnt die in the accident.
1:06 kiss your homies after you win the WS
back when men were men
Maybe on the cheek but on the lips
baller cheek is gay
Your right I was trying to make it better
@@user-73a Yo i got some bad news. Both your dads are gay!
Watching Rajai take Chapman deep is forever engrained into my mind
Redsox706 1066 truly a nightmare moment
yeah, a slapstick contact hitter taking the best closer in baseball deep.
Not as engrained as me taking my boyfriend deep is in my brain
(Disclaimer: This is a joke, I swear I'm not gay lmao...nor is there anything wrong with gay people. Just covering my bases
*Ba dum tss*)
@@WillAyeAmNot not funny didn't laugh
@@boppo16 I'll be here all week
The greatest baseball game of all time, and I'm not saying that just because my Cubs won. Was truly a great game. That rain delay was absolute torture btw
but def added to the drama
2011 game 6 ;)
@@zachfritz3398 Both games were fantastic, but I think 2016 holds just a slight edge over 2011 because it was Game 7 vs Game 6.
I dunno, I think The 2004 ALCS game 4 between the Red Sox and Yankees might be greater - but I'm probably biased as well. Still, it's so apropos that the two major curse breaker games were two of the greatest games of the sport
My dad and I had to go on a walk to release some stress doing that 5 hour long rain delay (we cubbies fans)
17 minutes?
Thats a D E E P Rewind
Verlisify FULLY deserved for the greatest baseball game played in history
Verlis
One of the best ones I’ve seen
Almost as deep as your narcissism
@@EpicTyphlosionTV I’m glad somebody else knows who this is
I’m a big cubs fan and honestly cried like a baby when we won the World Series
Same here. I've only cried for joy 3 times in life: when my daughter was born, when the Cubs won the pennant, & after they won the WS
I know the feeling. I did the same when we won in 2017. After yelling getting exciting and nearly punching a hole in the ceiling. I cried a lot.
I screamed for about 5 minutes then started crying lol
This is the best baseball game ever regardless of what team you’re a fan of. Very emotional and heavy game that was legitimately exciting.
Rajai Davis was nothing short of spectacular in this game. Dude deserves a statue for that legendary 8th inning homer and his performance throughout the entire series. Even after a victory, that screaming homer still gives me nightmares.
I STILL feel queasy when I see it. The feeling I got in the pit of my stomach when that HR was hit ..... That took years off my life.
This game actually got me into baseball.
This one and game 5 of the Astros-Dodgers WS
Fernando Martínez what got me was 2010 WS
This is the game that started to get be BACK into baseball. I stopped watching baseball after the 1994 Strike as a kid. Between this World Series and watching the anime Ace of Diamond... and then the meme's of Ace of Diamond plays HAPPENING in this World Series... it made me wish I'd never gave up on baseball in 1994 and had kept playing.
@@FernandoMartinez-om2nj well the Cubs didn't cheat in this one.
Toronto Texas game- bat flip game
As a die hard cubs fan, season ticket holder, person who grew up with the Cubs as their life. this was the greatest day of my whole life and my parents said it was a better feeling than their wedding. my family all cried watching the final out. i could rewatch this video daily and would love it every single time. i was there when steve did his little mishap and i was there to see the cubs win their last game at wrigley in 2016.
Greatest TH-cam video of all time. No debate. I come back and watch this every couple months to remember the old cubs.
I went to game 5 of this series and was watching every game live. I’ve never felt more emotions than that game 7. It was insane
One of the greatest moments in my life and the way it looks another freakin’ 108 years to another title
LOL, that's how it is.
Worst team to EVER win it all #FlyThatL
@@Packsuperbowl you're salty af lmao
R bruh that team is one of the greatest, you’re probably a salty Indians fan 🤣
I strongly disagree. It's no longer our grandfathers Cubs. There's a whole new generation who hasn't witnessed bad Cubs baseball all the time. Me for example. I'm 25, started watching in 2000 at age 7. Since then, the Cubs have a top 10 record in MLB (4th in NL) some division titles and a World Series. I'll guess they'll have another one soon.
Wow it’s kinda crazy to think that I’m the same year two teams from Cleveland either came back from a 3-1 deficit in the finals and one team lose a 3-1 lead in the World Series
This series was so good for baseball. I am a die hard Yankee fan (currently hoping they have a little comeback of their own) and I was so invested in this series. I didn’t care too much if either team won but deep deep deep down inside I had so much hope for the cubs. So many years of just bad luck were thrown out the window on this final play. I remember I went to a sports bar with a girl I met on Tinder and I was so into this game that I paid her virtually no mind. We never hung out again but I’m ok with that because I was able to witness history.
Steven Delgado Same here Bro. I am also a Yankees fan with no dog in the fight. However this game 7 will always bring a smile to my face on a personal level for this reason. My Mother had died just a couple of weeks earlier in Mid October. Between losing the most important person in my life and also even around the backdrop of the circus aka the infamous 2016 Presidential campaign dividing America and much of the world as well, caused even a tear in eye when the game ended. Not so much the Cubs ended their so called “curse” but how watching this legendary game 7 on November 2, 2016 kind of put a closure of a very sad 😢 month for my family. So this is why this game will always be remembered on a personal level to me almost as much as the entire 2001 World Series for 9/11.
Still the single greatest sporting event I’ve ever seen. You couldn’t script it any better.
One crazy thing that Mike Montgomery mentions in Tom Verducci’s book about him coming in is that in the bullpen and in his warmup he did not throw a single strike and Maddon did not know that. So the only strikes he threw that night were the two that he threw when he came in.
This still never gets old as a long time Cubs fan.
When the Cubs lost their last game in the 2015 season, I distinctly remember watching it on tv as they opened a gate and let in a bunch of billygoats to mock them.
I think the curse got lifted that night ;)
Plus the Mets would go on to get crushed in the world series that year, and then completely fall apart.
Tearing up and getting chills watching this. Glad you guys finally got around to possibly my favorite sports moment of all time.
YES I've never clicked on a video so fast in my life, I remember jumping up and down with my dad in the living room like a couple of kids, I've never seen him so happy
This game and especially that final play gives me the chills even to this day, no matter how many times I watch it, always get the chills
this game lasted into 1 am my birthday morning cause of where I live and my whole family was crying. one of my favorite memories ever. hands down. 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Bonus Fact: The Cubs broke their curse of making the World Series on Oct 22, the same day that William Sianis died back in 1970
Watching that moment the Cubs won still gives me chills. It's like baseball ASMR.
Watching this series was phenomenal. Once the cubs won, the fans started singing the cubs victory song. I'll never forget that moment.
Scott W I have
Alexander Gilles Go Cubs go!!!
Alexander Gilles we don’t talk about that city of West of Indiana
Little did I know that this World Series win would change my life in more ways than one. I had started following the Cubs in 2003 thanks to my grandmother. When they won it all in 2016, I realized that I stopped paying attention as much as I had done in previous seasons. I also realized how my bias blinded me to appreciating talent on other teams. I had a a ha moment during 2021. I got a recommendation for the Cubs on TH-cam and had no interest in watching the video. I now appreciate other teams for what they are. Not too sure if other fans felt this way, but I didn't want my identity to be wrapped up in one sports team.
Came back to this several times and man I still get chills at the end of this video. Thank you
Welcome to the greatest moment in sports history
To this day it still brings tears
I'm an Indians fan and this game was such a roller coaster. I went from cautiously optimistic, to beside myself with anger and sadness, and then back from the brink with the best moment in baseball I've ever seen in my life thanks to Rajai Davis's game tying 2- run homer, and then finally to the most depressed I've ever been. All in the span of 10 innings. One hell of a game, the only thing that put a blemish on it was that horrible rain delay that should have never happened.
Man on man. That entire season and playoffs for the Cubs was a fairy tale. It couldn’t of been written any better and it couldn’t of ended any better. There was so many good stories from that season. David Ross’ announcing his retirement, to being put in to relieve Contreras and catch for Lester in game 7, and blowing the next two plays and having two runs score. Then hitting a homer an inning later, in game 7 of the World Series as a 39 year old in his last game ever. It doesn’t get much better than that.
I'll NEVER forget watching that game. EVER.
this was the only baseball game in my life that i’ve watched start to finish and was invested in the outcome. i’m not a fan of any teams from either city, and i don’t care for baseball, but this game and moment were remarkably meaningful. chills watching the replay of the end.
Can't wait to see 2019 Sharks Vegas game 7 on here in like 10 years
I dont know much about baseball, but I find these Rewinders really interesting. Keep it up
seth...you and sb nation did a PHENOMENAL job capturing how huge this moment was.
Love the awareness of Rizzo to put the ball in his back pocket knowing it was a piece of history. He could’ve easily got caught up in the moment and just threw the ball somewhere and lost it
108 years...
10th inning
8 Runs
Cubs fan thanks to my Grandpa, sadly passed away on October 14, 2014. To my grandpa n others who grew up cubbies n didn't c i.t., 2016 was for all of U!!!
What a game, what a series!!!
Why so serious 😈🃏
This game recieved news coverage even in my country, a predominantly basketball oriented country 🇵🇭. Happy to see some history.
Brandon Guyer, Coco Crisp, and Rajai Davis (3 of the Indians lowest counted on players) were all clutch for them. Their most counted on players including pitching severely underperformed
I was so happy to see the Cubs win...been a fan since I was a lil kid in the 90's....so happy I didn't have to wait so long to see it😂
Can we see a rewind on Joe Carter's Home Run or Bautista's Bat Flip?
IMHO, this is the greatest baseball moment of the decade and it's not even close....
i think of 2016 as the greatest year in sports history. World series goes to extra innings in game 7. NBA Finals comes down to the final minute of game 7 and an incredible comeback. NCAA Tournament is won on a buzzer beater
The greatest baseball game of all-time.
Jesus Saves Love God ✝️
Man...I wish we beat the cubs
I don't think I can watch this whole thing. That game haunts me.
Velocity Bluedoes2 I know my guy but IF I had to pick another team to win other than the Indians. It would be the Cubs, one day our day will come.
TrippingInDenver I can’t watch this. This game is agony
@@alexandergilles8583 no man its great but im a cubs fan so
One of the best and most significant World Series games ever. Two teams looking to end their respective curses (Indians - Rocky Colavito/Chief Wahoo, Cubs - Billy Goat)
whilst knowing that only 1 of those two curses would be vanquished, and that they could only vanquish the curse if they won the series. The Cubs vanquished their curse, the Indians came up short yet again.
That Rajai Davis home run gives me PTSD. Still tough to watch after three years.
Do a video on Dave Roberts stealing 2nd in the '04 ALCS
Greatest world series ever
Um they already did that one I think
@@Fazillah Um no
Can we get a Twins-Braves 1991 Game 7 rewinder? Two Cinderella teams going head-to-head, the series had more extra innings games than any other up to that point, lots of wacky plays in the series (ron gant at first base, Lonnie smith getting faked out), and a phenomenal pitchers duel in game 7 with a 10th inning 1-0 finish. It's loaded with material to talk about.
I love you much you broke it all down and then that abrupt ending, I already knew what happened but I was engaged as if I was watching a recap because I had to work during the game.
My brother started crying when clevland was about to win
They actually never had the lead during Game 7
Rajai Davis is a super chill dude and needs to become a manager someday.
Pre-2016 me: "Please god, just let us win 1 in my lifetime!"
Post-2016 me: "Did you have to take me so literally?"
November 2nd was my birthday and Bryant is my favorite player. And he made the last play to win on my birthday
I remember absolutely sweating bullets. I'm not even a Cubs fan, but I wanted them to win so badly. Was devastated when it looked like they were going to blow it, and then elated when they finally won, noting that of course they had to make it a nail-biter.
Honestly, this is a good candidate for the greatest World Series game ever played, right up there with Game 6 of 1975. I'd argue the outside circumstances make it even better.
Sooooo obviously give us our time to enjoy the moment, but the 2019series will certainly deserve a rewinder some day
San Jose Sharks vs. Las Vegas Golden Knights Round 1 Game 7 2019
I think a beef history of the rivalry of Michigan vs Ohio state would be awesome there is so much history there.
the stakes will never be higher than this
ok but can we talk about how smooth the play at 13:49 was
SBNation -- Seriously please do a video on the St Louis Blues and their tragic history of never winning the Cup but finally winning it last year!
Even as a fan of neither team, rajai Davis’s performance will always be a certified hood classic
I remembered him from his days in Toronto and was praying he wouldn’t come up clutch
That home run almost traumatized me for life 😂
Only so much can go right for the city of Cleveland in a single century
The Steal in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS deserves a rewind
You need to do a rewinder on the 2008 Brazilian F1 Grand Prix and the "Is that Glock??" moment for Hamilton and Massa
As a die hard cubs fan I'll die on the hill of "Maddon got lucky"
He managed poorly that night
Should cover 2015 ALDS Toronto v texas, the 7th inning and Jose's bat flip
The other 28 teams had been keeping it up for over 100 years, and Cleverland just blew it LOL JK
I thought I'd internalized that this happened. I watched the whole video and didn't really feel much... until the very end. Suddenly a chill runs down my spine and I'm crying. Go Cubs.
The millennium of broken curses: Red Sox in 04, Phillies in 09, Giants in 10 and the Cubs in 16. Now the only question is who's next? The White Sox or the Cleveland Baseball Team (I'm leaning Cleveland Spiders, but that's just my opinion.)
Cleveland winning would have also been a big curse ender. The city of sports failure would have two pro championships in the same year.
You guys need to do a reminder on the Playoff Semi Final of Watford and Leister City. Watford saves a penalty and then on the counter attack they score with no time left
This is definitely the greatest World Series of all time
Dillon Sutko Since modern baseball era began in 1945, no doubt maybe the best. However don’t rule out in no order: 1975, 1986, 1991, 2001, and 2011 being the other legendary fall classics in last 75 years as well. Plus 1968, 1971, 1979, 1982, 1993 and 2017 being honorable mentions as well IMO. If you don’t know about those other mentioned World Series please do a google search. Thanks
2020 and the dodgers just ended yesterday with the 32 years drought
A really interesting “Deep Rewind” would be South Africa vs Australia 1992 Cricket World Cup semifinal. It would be great because it isn’t really a sport that you guys cover so people really wouldn’t know how it ends
You gotta do a rewind of the 7th inning of game 5 ALDS jays vs rangers 2015....craziest baseball moment I’ve ever experienced
Lemme guess, you’re here because we just blew up our core and slammed our contention window shut after what was supposed to be a dynasty post-2016, with the only remnants of that team being Heyward, Hendricks, Contreras, Arrieta, and Ross…
Yeah, me too. Let’s cry together
Man, this hurt as an Indians fan. You should do a rewinder on Cleveland Browns Bottlegate. Seems like it hasn’t been covered a ton.
Watching this after the 2021 trade deadline :(
I had called this that summer as soon as Matt Centrowicz won the 1500 meter race in the Olympics,the first American to have done so since 1908,the last time that the Cubs won it all.
As a Cubs fan I was so glad I missed the game tying Home Run in the eighth. I went to the bathroom before Davis went to bat and since I was the only one in my apartment at the time I did not hear anyone react. I was really upset when I saw it was tied but like I said I was glad to not see it happen in real time.
As a Cubs fan, every system in my body stopped working for that game, when that final play happened I didn't even feel like I was alive and seeing it
Honestly probably one of the best games of baseball I've ever seen
Brandon Guyer has a big moment without getting hit by pitch! Haha! Seriously though, love this series as well as dorktown . Keep up great videos !
I remember this game even my brother who typically hates sports watched it.
I hope they make a movie someday about this series
You need to do a rewind of game 162 of the 2011 season. Most epic night of baseball in history.
I’m an Indians fan and this game still hurts but this was the best World Series of all time, game 7 was so up and down
Who would’ve thought that 17 minutes of rain would wash away 108 years of drought
Though a history book says Joe Maddon was the manager that ended the drought for the Cubs, he made wrong decision after wrong decision in game 7. Players are the ones that brought themselves back on their feet during the rain delay after the 9th inning. Maddon was paranoid during the game 7.
It’s insane how many of these players are now on Yankees and Mets
Seth Rosenthal and Bill Simmons sound the exact same. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was a 10 year old Indians fan, and I balled my eyes out that day.
Finding where i asked requires a DEEP rewind
Good stuff! Rajai Davis did have the big hits for the Indians but he absolutely killed them with his defense in CF. Should’ve easily caught Contreras’s RBI double that bounced on the warning track. Let Bryant tag up and score on a very shallow fly ball. And let Almora tag and get to 2nd by catching the ball while backpedaling.