Having lost every post-season series they have played since 1908, the Cubs would like a different outcome for a change.
True, few players on either roster participated in that post-season series.
For all these heroics, no team has ever come from three games down to tie a post-season series.
Whether a post-season series went four games or seven, the payments were the same.
One run is 50 percent of the previous low output in a post-season series.
Since 1908, the Cubs have been in 12 post-season series and lost 11 of them.
Seldom does one player dominate the thinking about post-season series the way Johnson has the past 10 days.
Boston became the first team to win a 7 game post-season series despite being held scoreless on the power play.
And they would surely be looking at something else: becoming the first major league team to lose a post-season series after leading by 3-0.
No team in baseball history has come back from a 3-0 deficit in a post-season series.