World Series Game 7 by the numbers
108 — That's it. The wait is finally over. You all know what that number means … a number that next year can finally — finally — read ZERO.
37 — Years, until Wednesday in Cleveland, since a team came back from a 3-1 World Series deficit by winning Games 6 and 7 on the road. The last time it happened was 1979 when the Pirates accomplished the feat in Baltimore.
4 — Pitches it took for the Cubs to take a 1-0 lead in Game 7 as Dexter Fowler blasted a leadoff homer to dead center field.
1 — Player in history who has led off Game 7 of the World Series with a home run. His name? Dexter Fowler.
406 — Feet Dexter Fowler's home run traveled.
7 — Home runs by the Cubs in Games 5-7 after getting just 1 in Games 1-4.
8 — Pitches in Kris Bryant's fourth-inning at-bat, more than Indians starter Corey Kluber threw in either the second or the third innings. Bryant singled and scored on Addison Russell's sacrifice fly to center field.
.500 — Bryant's batting average in Games 5-7 after going 1-for-14 (. 077) in first four games.
.471 — Batting average of Cubs one through four hitters in Game 7. Fowler and Kyle Schwarber led the way with 3 hits each.
0.89 — Kluber's ERA in 5 postseason starts before Wednesday.
9.00 — Kluber's ERA in Game 7 of the World Series. He allowed 4 runs in 4 innings and did not strike out a single batter.
.094 — Rajai Davis' batting average in the postseason (he was 3-for-32) before he hit a 2-run homer off Aroldis Chapman to tie Game 7 at 6-6 in the eighth inning.