As the National League Championship Series now shifts to Chicago, the Cubs will attempt to hold serve at home in the same manner that the New York Mets just did. Yes, the Metropolitans are up 2-0, but you know this series is going the full seven games, regardless of who wins.
There are plenty of exciting players to watch in this series, but young Cubs slugger Kyle Schwarber might stand out above the rest. Here are three reasons to never miss a Schwarber at bat.
The Ruthian blasts
Or you could call them Jacksoninan (as in Reggie) or Fielderian (as in Cecil) blasts, as Schwarber truly has “light tower power.”
The fourth overall draft pick out of Indiana in 2014, Schwarber was the first Major League Player to ever hit a home run on top of the new jumbotron in Wrigley Field.
A reminder of @kschwarb12's impressive power remains on display. http://t.co/7NtOC13otH pic.twitter.com/gRmdlwU6oT
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) October 14, 2015
#SCHWARBOMB RT @ARizzo44: WHAT A STUD! #FlyTheW #WeGotThis! pic.twitter.com/CQ74wOCgtg
— Andy Garman (@GarmanSports) October 14, 2015
Kyle Schwarber’s prolific postseason power has already placed him into the Cubs record book. Although that might be more a function of the Cubs’ sorry playoff history:
Kyle Schwarber is in a 3-way tie for most #postseason HR in #Cubs history (4). Schwarber has appeared in only 69 career regular season games
— Christopher Kamka (@ckamka) October 19, 2015
The Walk-Up Music
As the NLCS now moves to Wrigley Field, you’ll be treated to Kyle Schwarber’s walk-up music. It’s dominated by the finest music genre in the history of Western Civilization: ’90s hip-hop. You’ll hear Bone Thugz n Harmony’s “Thuggish Ruggish Bone,” Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” and more.
You can have a Twittergasm
You have to see every Kyle Schwarber at bat in person, because then when he socks the crap out of the ball you can Tweet things like “SCHWARBOMB!!! SCHWARBURST!!! SCHWARBLAST!!! SCHWARBOOM!! SCHWARBAM!!!” and such.
A perfect way to sum up this piece might be with the words of Kent Brockman, “news has never been softer.”
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