CLEVELAND – The long, painful slog that was Game 2 of the World Series ended in most appropriate fashion Wednesday night: sopped by a rain that couldn't wash away the funk of bad baseball permeating the Chicago Cubs' 5-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians. This, the Cubs' first World Series victory in 71 years, wasn't just ugliness in the classic sense: a panoply of bumbling errors and brain farts and fundamental heresy, all of which came in heavy doses from the Indians. Worse was the embodiment of modern baseball at its mind-numbing slowest, with too many pitches leading to too languid a pace that threatened the first World Series postponement since 2008.