Jason Heyward and Anthony Rizzo doing this together was very special. (photo reference Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune) Fox was interviewing him when all of the sudden Anthony Rizzo and Jason Heyward picked up Ross and carried him on their shoulders! The team rallied together as he was carried off the field.

David “Grandpa Rossy” just played his last MLB game with a home run. Jason Heyward and Anthony Rizzo carry Grandpa Rossy off the fieldĪ very endearing moment happened after the win. It would be so cool to have that composition of five players jumping up in down, mimicking the look of Duchamp’s “ Nude Descending a Staircase, No. My wife called it an editorial cartoon style-which that description is rather nice. I frankly ran out of time to do something stylized, so I went back to my traditional drawing style of slightly cartoonish, slightly realistic. I’d like to redraw it in the cubist style.

Baez, Russell, and Montgomery were all important to the Cubs in the postseason. At some point I will be redrawing this illustration to include all five players. In retrospect, I want to include them in the drawing, for a couple reasons. Baez, Russell, and Montgomery got excluded. The area didn’t really have room for all five players, so I focused on just Rizzo and Bryant. This illustration had a specific space to fill in the scorecard, the vertical spot on the right. In fact, afterwards he admitted that he didn’t know what to do after the final out. Mike Montgomery, who pitched the final out, was left standing awkwardly. It also included Javier Baez and Addison Russell landing after their celebration jump. The image is an iconic photo by the Chicago Tribune’s Brian Cassella. They each ran up to each other first and celebrated together. So fitting that the final play of the game was Kris Bryant throwing to Anthony Rizzo. The Cubs winning the World Series! That’s INCREDIBLE! I knew I would include the celebration scene on the scorecard, along with the words really big CUBS WIN THE WORLD SERIES! At the end of this scorecard one team was going to be the champion. But just like every game, it starts the same-with a blank slate. Game seven is so big, the scorecard needed to be printed on gold foil paper. The eight-hour workday ended up being a huge benefit to me, as I was able to get eight hours of sleep before game 7! So I called in sick to work, so I could sleep during the day. I wouldn’t be able to function late into the night on no sleep from the night prior. I needed to be completely alert for game seven. With game seven happening that night, I knew I needed to get some sleep. Then 8am hit, and it was time to go to work! The extra design flourishes on the card took me all through the night and into the morning.

I pulled a complete all-nighter to finish the game 6 scorecard. I pull near all-nighters to complete them for Chicago magazine. I was even going to design it ahead of time, because the deadlines for these scorecards are so tight. One phrase I played with my head was, “Thank you Cubs for a great 2016 season” or something like that. Some games are just duds, and so I have a back-up plan just in case to feature SOMETHING, anything. I started planning in my head what I would say on the scorecard if the Cubs lost. At the start of every game thereafter, I would pull out a fresh scorecard, thinking this might be the final one. When the Indians took the series lead 3-1, the Cubs were on the verge of losing the World Series. I never really thought I would need all seven. Every day a new blog post in the series will be posted.Īt the start of the series, I printed out scorecards for seven games. 638 winning percentage.īaseball Almanac is pleased to present a unique set of rosters not easilyįound on the Internet.This is the 10th of 13 daily blog posts covering my World Series scorecards. They played their home games at Wrigley Field (Park Factors: 99/100) where 3,232,420 fans witnessed their 2016 Cubs finish the season with a. The 2016 Chicago Cubs played 160 games during the regular season, won 102 games, lost 58 games, and finished in first position.

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