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Baez puts game-winning gift in Wrigley’s basket
- Updated: October 8, 2016
CHICAGO — They’ve been there since 1970, those chain-linked baskets lining Wrigley Field’s ivy-covered bricks walls. It was a feature originally commissioned as part of an effort to reduce fan interference, but one that, on Friday night, offered the Cubs a bit of literal — and critical — home-field advantage.
Javier Baez, ready to settle for a bunt, instead capped his eighth-inning at-bat with a blast, one that ended a scoreless duel between Jon Lester and Johnny Cueto and lifted the Cubs to a 1-0 win over the Giants to open the best-of-five National League Division Series. Game 2 is on Saturday night (8 ET/7 CT, MLB Network).
Game Date Time Matchup TV Gm 1 Oct. 7 CHC 1, SF 0 Gm 2 Oct. 8 8 p.m. SF @ CHC MLBN Gm 3 Oct. 10 9:30 p.m. CHC @ SF FS1 *Gm 4 Oct. 11 8 or 8:30 p.m. CHC @ SF FS1 *Gm 5 Oct. 13 8 or 8:30 p.m. SF @ CHC FS1 *- If necessary | All times listed ETShop for postseason gear: Cubs | Giants • Complete Postseason coverage Baez’s second career postseason homer may have dropped on Waveland Ave. if not for the wind gusting in from left field. Instead, the ball, which Statcast™ tracked off his bat at 107 mph, came to rest 381 feet away, where the bricks meet that row of wiring, in the basket for a homer.
“I was so focused on that at-bat that I completely forgot about the wind,” said Baez, …
