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Jarrad Waite and Scott Thompson have failed to prove their fitness, meaning North Melbourne will take an unchanged lineup into the AFL elimination final against Adelaide.Geelong also did not risk key defender Lachie Henderson for the opening weekend of the finals, while Hawthorn speedster Billy Hartung has suffered another September blow.The Kangaroos were hopeful that Waite (hip) and Thompson (adductor) would be back for Saturday nights sudden-death clash at Adelaide Oval.Waites continued absence ensures fellow veteran key forward Drew Petrie, who had only four possessions in round 23, stays in the lineup.Petrie, Brent Harvey, Michael Firrito and Nick Dal Santo will all leave Arden St when this season ends.Henderson is recovering from minor knee surgery and he remains out of the side for Friday nights qualifying final against arch-rivals Hawthorn.The Cats made one change, recalling run-with midfielder Scott Selwood for Jed Bews.Selwoods assignment will be to try to nullify Hawks star Sam Mitchell.Hawthorn regained key defender Ben Stratton (pectoral muscle) and ruckman Ben McEvoy (back) from injury, with Hartung and Marc Pittonet the omissions.Hartung kicked two goals in the narrow round 23 win over Collingwood that secured Hawthorns double chance, but was unable to hold his spot.The speedster admitted to feeling devastated when he was dropped for last years grand final.Hartung was also left out of Hawthorns 2014 finals campaign.Rain is forecast for Friday and that could mean a late change or two.Well pick a side we think can beat Geelong in any conditions and well adjust accordingly both before the game and during the game if we need to, depending on how much rain comes, Hawks coach Alastair Clarkson said.In other selection news, Adelaide regained stars Rory Sloane and Brodie Smith to face the Kangaroos.The Crows dropped Ricky Henderson and Cam Ellis-Yolmen.There is only one change for the all-Sydney qualifying final on Saturday afternoon at ANZ Stadium.Two days after winning the Rising Star award, Sydneys Callum Mills was recalled after a calf injury sidelined him for round 23.He will return for Harry Cunningham.Larry Doby White Sox Jersey . 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The balanced lineup that propelled them to a National League championship and the best record in the majors was just a swing away.Three swings, as it turned out.The first by Kris Bryant with one out in the first inning Wednesday night, a sharp single to center field off Cleveland Indians starter Trevor Bauer that gave the Chicago dugout and the sea of blue-clad fans scattered throughout Progressive Field a needed jolt.The second came seven pitches later, a double to right from Anthony Rizzo that sent Bryant racing home with the Cubs first World Series run in 71 years.The third was in the fifth, a triple to right by Ben Zobrist that gave starter Jake Arrieta all the cushion he needed in a 5-1 victory that tied the Fall Classic at one game apiece heading back to Wrigley Field on Friday.Perhaps its only fitting the outburst was started by three players who represent the various stages of Chicagos renaissance under general manger Theo Epstein.Rizzo, the teams longest-tenured position player, endured 101 losses in his first season with the Cubs in 2012, a six-month bout of misery that led to Chicago taking Bryant with the second pick in the 2013 amateur draft. 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It was Chicagos first run since the eighth inning of a Game 7 loss to Detroit in the 1945 World Series, a mere 44 years before Rizzo was born.Rizzo walked and Zobrist singled in the third before Rizzo scored on a single by Kyle Schwarber to make it 2-0. In the fifth, Rizzo led off with a walk and raced home on Zobrists hard triple into the right-field corner. Zobrist scored to make it 4-0 when Schwarber singled up the middle.All of a sudden, an October night in Cleveland on baseballs biggest stage felt like so many other games Chicago has played over the last six-plus months. Arrieta dominated, the lineup delivered and the crowd chanted Lets Go Cubs.All the way back to Chicago, where a chance to make history more than a century in the making awaits. ' ' '