Cubs Win! Advance to Face Statis-Pro Dodgers

 While the Texas Rangers were winning a thrilling Game 1 of the World Series with a game-tying homer in the 9th and game-winning homer in the 11th, the Cubs were winning the opening series in your "what if" Statis-Pro playoff and will now face the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Braves will play the Phillies in the other series, and the Astros have already won the AL Statis-Pro.

In actual MLB it was the Diamondbacks who made the playoffs by 1 game over the Cubs and are now in the World Series while in Statis-Pro it was the DBacks who missed the playoffs by one game and the Cubs trying to make the same run.

Joc Pederson homered off Jason Steele in the first inning to give the Giants a 1-0 lead, but Steele did not allow another baserunner in seven innings and the Giants hit only 0.145 in the entire two game sweep.

Webb, the first of two PB 2-8 starters for the Giants, made the 1-0 lead hold up until Cody Bellinger tied it with an RBI triple and then scored on a Dansby Swanson single to make it 2-1. In the eighth Seija Suzuki singled and Ian Happ doubled him home and the 3-1 lead held up.

The Cubs then pounded the Giants second PB 2-8 pitcher Cobb for five runs as the 2-3-4 hitters (Bellinger-Suzuki-Happ) combined for an incredible 12 of 25 including four stolen bases and a homer in a 7-2 win to sweep.  It was 5-0 when they chased Cobb in the top of the 5th inning.
 

No.	Pos	Cubs Batter	AB	R	H	BI	Notes
1	2B	Nico Hoerner	8	2	0	0
2	1B	Cody Bellinger	9	3	5	1	3b, 2 SB
3	RF	Seiya Suzuki	9	2	3	3	HR
4	LF	Ian Happ	7	1	4	1	2 SB
5	SS	Dansby Swanson	9	0	2	1
6	3B	Jeimer Candelario	8	1	1	0	2b
7.5	PR	Alexander Canario	0	0	0	0	CS
7	SS	Patrick Wisdom	7	1	4	1	HR
8	DH	Christopher Morel	9	0	3	0
9	C	Yan Gomes	8	0	0	0
		Cubs .297 BA	74	10	22	7
No.	Pos	Giants Batter	AB	R	H	BI	Notes
1	2B	Thairo Estrada	8	0	2	1	2b
2	3B	Casey Schmitt	6	0	1	0
3	1B	LaMonte Wade Jr.	7	0	0	0
4	DH	Joc Pederson	7	1	1	1	HR
5	3B	JD Davis	7	0	2	0
6	RF	Mike Yastrzemski	7	0	0	0
7	LF	Michael Conforto	6	1	1	0
8	C	Blake Sabol	6	1	1	0
9	DH	Mitch Haniger	8	0	1	0
		Giants 0.145 BA	62	3	9	2