It ended, for all intents and purposes, 351 days later in Chicago, when a baseball hit by Kiké Hernandez found the basket at Wrigley Field for a grand slam and a seven-run Dodgers lead in just the third inning. The Dodgers became the third team in as many years to celebrate the clinching of a National League pennant at the Friendly Confines, walking away with a 11-1 victory to win the NLCS in five games. The Cubs, on the business end of the champagne bottle last fall, saw the expiration of a year in which "world champion Chicago Cubs" was a real thing and not just the product of a daydream or the end sequence of a video game.