The Cubs Are Down 0-3, So You Know What That Means ...

SB Nation Grant Brisbee talks about the Cubs, who lost to the Dodgers last night and are now down 0-3 in the National League Championship Series.

The 2017 Cubs are in the middle of being humiliated. This is the second time in the last three years that they've been down, 0-3, in a best-of-seven series. In 2015, they scored five runs in three games against the Mets.

They've scored four runs in the first three games of this series. ...

The Cubs aren't going to win this series. You could see it on the players' faces as they popped up or grounded out or whiffed or fell into a cleverly disguised pit with spikes. You could see it in the exasperated faces of the fans who kind of knew they'd pawned a whole lot of future hopes and dreams last year to get just the one championship. It was the payroll advance of postseasons, and that’s fine. Everyone is incredibly fine with that.

But so here's the list ... and I love that it gets posted on October 18.

Thirteen years ago, on this very calendar date, the Red Sox won two ALCS games against the Yankees (both in extra innings!!), making at least one diehard fan start believing that an unprecedented comeback was actually possible.

League Championship Series

1988 - Oakland Athletics over Boston Red Sox (4-0)
1990 - Oakland Athletics over Boston Red Sox (4-0)
1995 - Atlanta over Cincinnati Reds (4-0)
1998 - San Diego Padres over Atlanta (4-2)
1999 - Atlanta over New York Mets (4-2)
2004 - Boston Red Sox (down 0-3) over New York Yankees (4-3)
2006 - Detroit Tigers over Oakland Athletics (4-0)
2007 - Colorado Rockies over Arizona Diamondbacks (4-0)
2012 - Detroit Tigers over New York Yankees (4-0)
2014 - Kansas City Royals over Baltimore Orioles (4-0)
2015 - New York Mets over Chicago Cubs (4-0)
2016 - Cleveland over Toronto Blue Jays (4-1)

World Series

1910 - Philadelphia Athletics over Chicago Cubs (4-1)
1914 - Boston over Philadelphia Athletics (4-0)
1927 - New York Yankees over Pittsburgh Pirates (4-0)
1928 - New York Yankees over St. Louis Cardinals (4-0)
1932 - New York Yankees over Chicago Cubs (4-0)
1937 - New York Yankees over New York Giants (4-1)
1938 - New York Yankees over Chicago Cubs (4-0)
1939 - New York Yankees over Cincinnati Reds (4-0)
1950 - New York Yankees over Philadelphia Phillies (4-0)
1954 - New York Giants over Cleveland (4-0)
1963 - Los Angeles Dodgers over New York Yankees (4-0)
1966 - Baltimore Orioles over Los Angeles Dodgers (4-0)
1976 - Cincinnati Reds over New York Yankees (4-0)
1989 - Oakland Athletics over San Francisco Giants (4-0)
1990 - Cincinnati Reds over Oakland Athletics (4-0)
1998 - New York Yankees over San Diego Padres (4-0)
1999 - New York Yankees over Atlanta (4-0)
2004 - Boston Red Sox over St. Louis Cardinals (4-0)
2005 - Chicago White Sox over Houston Astros (4-0)
2007 - Boston Red Sox over Colorado Rockies (4-0)
2012 - San Francisco Giants over Detroit Tigers (4-0)