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Game 3 of the World Series – the first one Wrigley Field had hosted in 71 years – was scoreless in the sixth inning, a staring contest between the Indians and Chicago Cubs in which eyes were beginning to water. You're hitting fourth next inning,” Crisp was told, and that was his cue to get to work, the same meticulous work that allowed him to be playing in the major leagues three days shy of his 37th birthday. He swung.