Kyle Schwarber’s home run landed on top of the new Chicago Cubs scoreboard, and the franchise has no plans of fetching the monster shot.
According to ESPN’s Jesse Rogers, a Cubs spokesman said the ball will remain up there for two reasons. Julian Green said:
“It’s the first year of the video scoreboards, it’s the first year the Cubs have ever clinched at home and it’s the first time someone has hit a ball up there.”
Perhaps this will reverse the course of Chicago’s postseason fate, since the franchise hasn’t won a World Series since 1908. If that happens, Schwarber’s powerful home run will be remember for a long, long time.
Update: Kyle Schwarber's home run hit the moon and landed on top of the scoreboard pic.twitter.com/rMZ2vhUxDt
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Schwarber’s 438-foot blast, per ESPN Stats & Info, gave the Cubs a 6-4 lead during the bottom of the seventh inning against the St. Louis Cardinals. It was also Schwarber’s third home run of the postseason.
Chicago held on to beat its longtime rival and advanced to the National League Championship Series for the first time since 2003.
Schwarber and the Cubs await the winner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets.