#2016 world series game 7 first pitch professional#
At least the Cleveland Cavaliers, many of whom were in attendance Wednesday at Progressive Field, broke Cleveland’s 52-year span without a major professional sports title by winning the N.B.A. The Indians have not won the World Series since 1948, and they now own the longest drought in baseball without a title. In Cleveland, a city with its own hard-luck sports history, the wait continues.
Back in Chicago, where fans in the North Side of Chicago have waited generations for this day, revelers poured into the streets for party that will probably last days. Upon the final out the players jumped and celebrated on the diamond while thousands of visiting Cubs fans screamed joyfully in the stands. Making it even more sweet was that the Cubs trailed in the series by three games to one. Take a look and see what I mean.It is their third title in the World Series, a competition that was introduced in 1903, but this may be the sweetest and hardest-earned championship in the history of American sports. The sequence of him hitting the ball and following through was just what I envisioned when I went out there an hour before first pitch. There were not many pictures for me out there last night, but the clean background at home plate came through for me when Cubs slugger Kris Bryant belted the game’s biggest hit, a home run in the bottom of the 4th inning to tie the game 1-1 and start a Cubs rally. They could have been shot anytime over the history of this magical ballpark. The pictures from out there have a timeless quality. No advertising whatsoever to ruin your backgrounds. The best part of my position is the clean look you get at home plate where the background is nothing but bricks and fans. When you are shooting from the field in the normal camera wells you are shooting front lit with the lights at your back and they are bright and fabulous. This makes it difficult to see clearly and to focus. There are no lights in the outfield facing towards home plate, so if you are shooting from out there like I was last night everything is backlit. Lights were not installed at Wrigley until 1988 and all the light banks are behind first base, home plate, and third base. Shooting from the outfield is always fun and different, but shooting from the outfield at Wrigley Field is especially nutty because the light there is so weird. I shot with a Canon 800mm 5.6 lens so we could get a different look, since we also had MLB shooters on the field at first and third bases. I photographed last night’s game from unique photo position, in the bleachers in the left field corner near the foul pole next to the FOX television camera operator. The Cubs were not ready to see their season end at the hands of the Tribe, and neither was I! I wanted to shoot more baseball, and thanks to Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman nailing down an eight-out save in dramatic fashion with his club clinging to a one run lead thousands of people will be making the short trip from Chicago to Cleveland over the next two days. We made it back to Cleveland today thanks to the Cubs thrilling 3-2 win over the Indian’s in last night’s Game 5 at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Aroldis Chapman #54 of the Chicago Cubs enters the game in the seventh inning during Game 5 of the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians at Wrigley Field on Sunday, Octoin Chicago, Illinois.