The Baseball Hall of Fame will admit three new members in July: Tim Raines, Jeff Bagwell and Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez. This year was Raines' final year of eligibility, while Rodriguez cleared the 75 percent barrier on his first try. This was Bagwell's seventh time on the ballot.
The Chicago Cubs World Series celebration is continuing. The Cubs Trophy Tour will be winding its way through locations in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa--including stops in Cedar Rapids and Waterloo.
Kyle Hendricks pitched seven-plus shutout innings, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-0, at Wrigley Field on Saturday night to win the 2016 National League Championship Series in six games and advance to the World Series for the first time since 1945.
Carlos Santana and Coco Crisp hit solo home runs to back the shutout pitching of four Cleveland hurlers, and the Indians beat the Blue Jays, 3-0, to win the 2016 American League pennant in Toronto on Wednesday afternoon.
Dodgers’ ace Clayton Kershaw got the last two outs of the game with the go-ahead run on-base in the bottom of the ninth inning, and Los Angeles rallied to beat the Washington Nationals, 4-3, in the decisive Game 5 of the National League Division Series on Thursday night.
Javier Baez capped a four-run, ninth-inning rally with an RBI-single, and the Chicago Cubs rallied past the Giants, 6-5, in Game 4 of the 2016 National League Division Series in San Francisco on Tuesday night.