The Cleveland Indians need just one more victory to win the World Series

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The Cleveland Indians scored their third victory over the Chicago Cubs in Game 4 of the 2016 World Series Saturday night, giving them a 3-1 lead. If the Indians win any one of the final three games, they will take the series title.

This is the 47th time the World Series tally has stood at 3-1; on 40 of the previous occasions the leading team won the series. However, the Cubs had 18 winning streaks of at least three games each this season.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.