The Best Team in Baseball Is Now an Underdog – Wall Street Journal

Chicago

For a manager whose team had just lost all probable hope at a championship, Joe Maddon was strikingly upbeat. It was late Saturday night, and the Chicago Cubs had just lost again, falling behind the Cleveland Indians, 3-1, in the World Series. But as he dissected the Cubs’ woes, Maddon saw a path forward: win Sunday, and a comeback…