Source: www.sbnation.com --- Tuesday, October 17, 2017
The Cubs now face a near-impossible comeback. Well, the Cubs are about as up against a wall as you can be in this here game of Baseball, down 3-0 to a Dodgers team that had everything go right in Game 3. The Dodgers were all smiles in the top of the eight inning, on their way to a 6-1 win, and they should have been. Coming back from a 3-0 hole in the playoffs has only happened once before (and Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts is intimately familiar with that particular event) so it’s not that the Cubs have no hope here, they just have very very little hope. Infinitesimal hope. With the first three runs of the game coming in the form of solo home runs, Game 3 started out not only in a unique way but in a way that certainly gave the Cubs some hope. They drew first blood in the game, against Yu Darvish nonetheless, with a Kyle Schwarber solo home run in the first inning. That would be the last run they scored. The Dodgers answered in the second and third innings with two solo home runs of their own, from Andre Ethier and Chris Taylor respectively, to take the lead and they never gave it back. They scored again in the fifth inning, when Chris Taylor hit a triple that brought Joc Pederson around to score to make things 3-1. In the sixth, they added on to their tally in amazing fashion, when Yu Darvish got a postseason RBI . With two men on base, Kyle Hendricks was finally pulled and Carl Edwards Jr. came in to pitch. He got one out but ...
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