Friday night's Game 3 was proof it's useless to try to predict baseball.
With the wind howling out all night, many anticipated the Cubs and Indians would have a high scoring game as the World Series returned to Wrigley Field for the first time in more than seven decades.
Yet even Kyle Schwarber couldn't save the Cubs offense in a 1-0 loss to the Indians in front of 41,703 fans.
With so much excitement in Wrigleyville, it felt like a national holiday, but the Cubs offense came up empty against Josh Tomlin and a slew of Indians relievers, taking the air completely out of a festive crowd.
The Cubs mustered only four hits and a walk with Schwarber relegated to pinch hitting duties, popping out weakly to the second baseman in a pinch-hit appearance in the eighth.
Tomlin threw only 4.2 innings, but after allowing 36 homers in the regular season, pitched to the conditions and kept the ball in the park.
Andrew Miller entered the game with a runner on second and two outs in the fifth and got Miguel Montero to fly out before striking out the top of the Cubs' order in the sixth.
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From there, Bryan Shaw took care of business in the seventh and eighth and Cody Allen finished things off.
Kyle Hendricks came out on the wrong end of another 1-0 postseason game at Wrigley, but he didn't allow the run despite not making it out of the fifth inning.
In the top of the seventh, Roberto Perez led off with a single, was bunted to second, advanced to third on a wild pitch and then scored on a two-out hit from Coco Crisp who pinch hit for Miller.
Jorge Soler was the only Cubs player to reach base twice - a soft liner in the fifth and a triple in the seventh when Lonnie Chisenhall misplayed a fly ball down the RF line.
The Cubs mounted a rally in the ninth, but Javy Baez struck out with the tying run at third base and the winning run at second.
The Cubs have now been shut out in two of the three World Series games.
The Cubs will face Corey Kluber again in Game 4, as the Indians ace goes on short rest against John Lackey in exactly the type of game the Cubs signed the battle-tested veteran for.