On Wednesday night, for the Cubs at least, the World Series ended in that rarest of things: an authentic, earned happy ending
There was a baseball game last night.
There are three stories to tell about it, and they’re stacked on top of each other, tottering, each bigger than the last and relying on the one below it to make sense. The first story: the Cubs took a 6-3 lead into the eighth inning of Game 7 of the World Series, and Aroldis Chapman blew it. Then he won the game.
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