Wake Up and Watch the Cubs Clinch Their Third Straight NLDS!

GOOOOOOOOD MORNING MY TIRED BUT HAPPY FRIENDS!

If you didn’t stay up late for last night’s extraordinarily long nine-inning game, or if you did stay up and are now a groggy zombie beast this morning and need a pick-me-up, let’s enjoy the Cubs finishing off the Nationals (by the skin of Wade Davis’s teeth) and clinching their third straight NLDS.

Via @Cubs:

It never gets old, does it? And striking out Bryce Harper in a one-run game to end it? Wow. That’s an image I’ll have in my head for a long time.

And as everyone bum rushes Wade Davis, he’s pretty much like, “Yes, mmm hmm, good win guys, thanks, OK, I’m fine now”:

(Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

And a little “Clinch Cam” footage:

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