LOS ANGELES — Here they are once again, sensing it, smelling it, wrapping themselves around it.
Just one more victory, and for the first time since 1945, the Chicago Cubs will be in the World Series.
The Cubs, who knocked off the Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-4, to take a 3-2 lead in the National League Series championship, have been at this juncture before, of course.
They were just one victory away from the World Series in 2003 against the Florida Marlins, and had two chances to win it at Wrigley Field, with aces Mark Prior and Kerry Wood lined up, and blew it.