The 2016 World Series was the 112th edition of Major League Baseball's champions

hip series, a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Ch
icago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians, the first me
eting of those franchises in postseason history. The Indians had home-field adva
ntage because the AL had won the 2016 All-Star Game.[2][3][4] The Cubs defeated
the Indians in seven games, their first World Series victory in 108 years. They
clinched the Series in Game 7 with an 8 7 win in extra innings, marking the fifth
time that a Game 7 had gone past nine innings, and the first one to have a rain
delay, which happened just as the tenth inning was about to start. It was only t
he sixth time in World Series history that a team came back from a deficit of th
ree games to one to win a championship. This was the third consecutive year that
the visiting team won the deciding game of the World Series.
The Cubs were playing in their eleventh World Series and their first since 1945,
and won their first championship since 1908. It was the Indians' sixth appearan
ce in the World Series and their first since 1997, with their last Series win in
1948. The two teams entered their matchup as the two franchises with the longes
t World Series title droughts, a combined 176 years without a championship. Clev
eland manager Terry Francona, who had previously won Series titles with the Bost
on Red Sox in 2004 and 2007, fell short in his bid to become the third manager,
after Casey Stengel and Joe Torre, to win his first three trips to the Series.