Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field, the celebrated their curse-killing 2016 World Series championship team. Many players from that squad were in attendance for the celebration, including . Rizzo hit 32 home runs that season and finished fourth in the NL MVP voting. He also recorded the final putout of the World Series at first base.
“I’m hoping that, in my lifetime now, as a Cubs fan, I see this: There’s about five or seven more championships before I die up here,” Rizzo while wearing his 2016 Game 7 jersey during Saturday’s pregame ceremony. “So, no pressure.”
Following Saturday’s celebration, Rizzo and several other 2016 Cubs players made their way out to the right field bleachers to hang out with the masses. Sure enough, the ball found Rizzo. hit a first-inning home run right to him. Check it out:
Michael Busch hit a homer into the bleachers …
Anthony Rizzo got the ball!
Rizzo didn’t catch the home run ball as much as he was the first one to pick it up. But hey, he got the ball. He has a knack for this, too. The Cubs held a ceremony to honor Rizzo following his retirement last September. He went out to the bleachers afterward and . The ball just finds the guy, eh?
The 2016 World Series win, of course, snapped a 108-year World Series drought. Chicago had not won the World Series since their back-to-back championships in 1907 and 1908.
The Cubs are celebrating their 2016 World Series team today.
Anthony Rizzo is wearing his jersey from the iconic Game 7 💙
The 2026 Cubs entered Saturday’s game with the with a 54-43 record despite having a full 13-man pitching staff on the injured list at one point earlier this month. They’re six games back in the NL Central and in the first wild card spot.
