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Each team would score one more run before Zobrist and the Cubs celebrated the end of the longest drought in professional sports - 108 seasons without a championship. Olivetians everywhere celebrated when Ben hit the RBI double that put the Chicago Cubs ahead of the Cleveland Indians in the 10th inning. Tiger Nation humbly appreciates the Olivet footnote in the 2016 World Series Game 7, now in the history books as one of the great baseball games of all time. Bowling, University president Julianna, Ben’s wife, and their three children Cindi, Ben’s mother and Noah, Ben’s brother. “Just like old times but switched around,” Ben said to his dad after deftly catching the ball.Īlso there to witness this memorable event were Dr. His name was Tom Zobrist, Ben’s dad, and he was there to throw the first pitch to Ben. Olivet Nazarene University and the Chicago Cubs arranged that surprise. And there was a pre-game surprise waiting for him. Side note: This was Ben’s bobblehead night. Just another workday for Major League Baseball player Ben Zobrist ’04. This story was published in Sports Spectrum’s Fall 2016 print magazine.Wrigley Field. I’m no more deserving of Christ than anybody else, and I’m definitely not anymore deserving to be able to do something like this on a daily basis for a job I really just want to grow in Christ and understand more who God is and who He desires me to be.” That’s what I’ve learned throughout this game. He’s using me to preach to my own heart and show me where I need him most and where I still haven’t allowed the love of Christ to change me, change my heart still.” It’s not just knowing the truth, but really allowing the truth to change you, allowing Christ and the message of grace and hope and love through the cross-that message is a message that changes the whole way we look at everything in our lives. “I still have a lot to learn about what the love of Christ is like. In total audience, last night was easier on the Carrie Underwood and. “The biggest thing is that I’m still learning,” Zobrist told FCA in 2013 when he played for the Rays. With a 2.9/8 rating in the key demo and 12.6 million viewers, the CMA s fell 24 among 18-49s from 2015 to a new all-time low. But he understands that his biggest journey in life revolves around his life in Christ. “We may be champions at the end of this year, but at some point, my career is going to be over, and baseball won’t be able to carry me, but I know the Lord will always carry me, and I put my hope in Him.”įrom struggling in his first two years in the big leagues, to becoming an All-Star in his third year, to eventually playing in three World Series (he played in the 2008 World Series with Tampa Bay), winning two titles and being named the 2016 World Series MVP, Zobrist’s baseball career has been a storybook journey. “Baseball is a great game, and we have a lot of fun out here, and it’s a great job to have, but the bottom line is that it can’t be God…it’ll always let you down in the end,” Zobrist told Shawn Brown of CBN Sports after Game 2 of the World Series. He just probably exemplifies exactly how we want to play the game.”īut while Zobrist will go on to be praised and revered by Cubs fans, as the first Cub to ever win a World Series MVP, Zobrist directs his praise toward the God who he bases his life upon. Everybody would like to have one of those on their team. “Who sets a better example of just being a professional than he does?…Here’s a guy that he’s in his mid-30s, and his work ethic is incredible to watch, what he does after games, not before games, after games, to be ready for the next day and his dedication…He’s just a different cat.

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“Who sets a better example of how to work an at-bat?” said Cubs manager Joe Maddon on Zobrist being named MVP. His clutch RBI double in the top of the 10th in Game 7 of the World Series, arguably the biggest hit in baseball history, seemed to secure the selection of Zobrist as MVP. He brought the ease, stability and consistency that Cubs manager Joe Maddon hoped he would bring when the Cubs acquired Zobrist in the offseason.

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919 OPS (on-base plus slugging percentage) in seven games. Zobrist was a consistent offensive force for the Cubs throughout the World Series, compiling a. Now it looks as if Zobrist will play the final years of his career in Chicago, playing for a team that so many children in Illinois dream of playing for.Īnd after this year, Zobrist will forever be etched in Cubs history. Zobrist, 35, played nine seasons with the Tampa Bay Rays before winning a World Series title in 2015 with the Kansas City Royals and another one with the Cubs. Zobrist grew up in central Illinois, two hours from Wrigley Field, and was acquired by the Chicago Cubs this season to help bring veteran experience to a team of budding stars. It’s only fitting that Ben Zobrist would be named the 2016 World Series MVP and drive home the go-ahead run in Game 7 of the Fall Classic finale. This story was originally published in Sports Spectrum’s Fall 2016 print magazine.

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