Source: www.sbnation.com --- Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Wednesday’s Say Hey, Baseball looks at the Cubs in a must-win situation, and the Yankees evening up the ALCS. The Cubs are down three games to none in the NLCS after a loss to the Dodgers that sucked the energy right out of the team and the crowd at Wrigley. The stadium was almost silent even when the Dodgers were only up 4-1 in Game 3, and it's hard to blame the fans or the team for that. Winning is tough, losing is easy, and there's a reason just one team has ever come back from down 3-0 in a seven-game series. Chicago could be the second team, sure: they can put Game 3 behind them and start winning with house money from here on out, because that's what they're playing with at this point. Their first chance to turn things around comes on Wednesday night in Game 4, when Jake Arrieta takes the mound opposite Clayton Kershaw. Hey, I already said it wasn't going to be easy. This team came back from down 3-1 a year ago in the World Series, and 3-0 isn't that much different. It's just doing the same thing, one more time. That's enough of a difference that, historically, far more teams have come back from down 3-1, but the more optimistic view is also the headspace the Cubs need to be in. You could see on their faces on Tuesday that they were down, like the series was already lost -- and it probably is. It's definitely lost if the non-Javier Baez parts of Chicago's roster are going to mope around when the Dodgers get a lead on Wednes ...
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