CHICAGO — For once, luck was on the side of the Cubs. This might have been true in a couple of ways during Tuesday night’s NLCS Game 3, but definitively so in the top of the sixth inning, with the Mets clinging to a 3–2 lead.
With two outs and a man on first, Mets shortstop Wilmer Flores lined a 93-mph two-seamer from Trevor Cahill to right. The ball came off the bat with as much sink as it had come in, and was rapidly tumbling to the turf as it approached rightfielder Jorge Soler.