contexts: 2016 World Series Team ( Wins ) Manager ( s ) Season Chicago Cubs ( 4 ) Joe Maddon 103 -- 58 , . 640 , 171⁄2 GA Cleveland Indians ( 3 ) Terry Francona 94 -- 67 , . 584 , 8 GA Dates October 25 -- November 2 MVP Ben Zobrist ( Chicago ) Umpires Chris Guccione , John Hirschbeck ( crew chief ) , Sam Holbrook , Marvin Hudson , Tony Randazzo , Larry Vanover and Joe West . ALCS Cleveland Indians beat Toronto Blue Jays , 4 -- 1 NLCS Chicago Cubs beat Los Angeles Dodgers , 4 -- 2 Broadcast Television Fox ( English ) Fox Deportes ( Spanish ) TV announcers Joe Buck , John Smoltz , Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci ( English ) Carlos Álvarez , Duaner Sánchez , Karim García and Jaime Motta ( Spanish ) Radio ESPN ( English ) ESPN Deportes ( Spanish ) NewsRadio WTAM 1100 ( Cleveland Indians ) 670 The Score ( Chicago Cubs ) Radio announcers Dan Shulman and Aaron Boone ( English ) Eduardo Ortega , José Francisco Rivera , Renato Bermúdez and Orlando Hernández ( Spanish ) Tom Hamilton and Jim Rosenhaus ( on Indians radio ) Pat Hughes , Len Kasper , Ron Coomer , and Jim Deshaies ( on Cubs radio ) World Series Program ← 2015 World Series 2017 →
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