Keeping Halloween hope alive at Hy-Vee were Loyal Chicago Cubs fans Sean Iben, product manager at the Perry store, and Nate Herink, product specialist, who wore their Cubby colors to work to celebrate both Halloween and the miracle of the national League Pennant-winners’ advance to the 2016 Baseball World Series.
The Cubs outscored the American League champion Cleveland Indians 3-2 Sunday at Chicago’s Wrigley Field. The Indians have a 3-2 lead in the best-of-7 World Series, which returns to Cleveland’s Progressive Field Tuesday for game six.
According to Wikipedia, the 2016 World Series is the Indians’ sixth overall appearance in the Series and their first since 1997, with their last Series win in 1948. The Cubs are playing in their 11th World Series overall and their first since 1945 and have the chance to win their first championship since 1908.
The matchup features the two franchises with the longest World Series title droughts, a combined 176 years without a championship. The previous longest combined drought was 132 years in 2005 between the Chicago White Sox (88 years) and the Houston Astros (44 years).
