The Chicago Cubs, World Series champions.

Alas, this seems all but inevitable. Or, as Cubs fans have liked to say, via posters: “It’s happening.”

I have done all I can, from the other side of the Atlantic, to stop this development.

First, outlining why we ought to contribute our mental energy to stopping the Cubs from defeating the Cleveland Indians. Then, applying my reverse-jinx skills ahead of the World Series.

But the Cubs have rallied from a 3-1 games deficit to knot the series at 3-3, amid a sense of gathering momentum for the team that has not won a championship since 1908 even as the Indians show signs of falling to pieces.

It’s partly Cubs momentum … and partly the Indians showing they are not quite as elite a team.

Cleveland has been getting sloppy. That was obvious in the first inning of Game 6 tonight when outfielders Lonnie Chisenhall and Tyler Naquin let a routine fly ball fall between them, with two outs in the first inning, enabling the Cubs to score their second and third runs of the inning — a mighty hole when Jake Arrieta is throwing for the other team.

Chisenhall and Naquin couldn’t even get their stories straight on what happened. They also apparently also were surprised that they could not hear each other because of a noisy capacity crowd and would henceforth use hand signals to determine who would take a ball hit between them.

As if a big, noisy crowd in Game 6 of the World Series was some sort of surprise to the Indians which requires special preparation. Now.

The whole of it felt like a team cracking under the pressure.

Chisenhall is one guy who probably should not be playing. He is not doing much with the bat and his performance in right field has been shaky. (Remember that awkward fling at the wall on what turned into a triple by Jorge Soler, in the 1-0 Game 3?)

The Indians have made other mistakes, the sort you cannot make when playing a team that won 103 games. Rajai Davis was thrown out at third, trying to take an extra base, in that 1-0 game. Francisco Lindor was picked off in that game. Lindor twice has been thrown out trying to steal. Roberto Perez was gunned down tonight trying to stretch a hit into a double — the second out in the ninth inning, with his team trailing by six runs.

Relief pitchers are issuing unnecessary walks. Even the star relievers.

This series also had a bunt as a turning point; it was Ben Zobrist in Game 4 against the Dodgers; it was Javier Baez against the Indians in Game 5, his bunt single loading the bases and allowing David Ross to drive in, with a sacrifice fly, what turned out to be the winning run in a 3-2 game.

The Indians played out of their minds for four games, and the Cubs were not very good — reminiscent of the National League Championship Series versus the Dodgers, which the Dodgers led 2-1. It feels as if the Cubs have survived the crisis and things now do not seem at all difficult.

The Indians winning tonight pretty much is in the hands of Corey Kluber, but how many times can the Indians go to that well? Their ace has been a rock in the series and in the postseason but he may, like Clayton Kershaw in Game 6 of the NLCS, be about to break under the strain. Who could fault him?

The final bit of this sense of doom is where the game is being played.

In this series, which also features a team (the Indians) who have not won a championship since 1948, playing at home may be a disadvantage.

Both fan bases, as I noted the other day, have been traumatized by their teams’ history, and go to games prepared to wince.

To struggle and fall behind almost instantly casts home fans into gloom, and the Cleveland crowd will fall silent the minute things begin to unravel on Kluber’s watch. Which will make the Indians even more nervous and twitchy. And make the Cubs even more confident.

The home team is 2-4 in this series. Normally, you want to play at home. In this unprecedented collision of teams who have been waiting a combined 174 years for a World Series victory, of fans who were born, lived lives and died without seeing their team win a championship, being at home is a curse, and we will see one last bit of evidence of it tonight when Kluber wavers and the Indians crash and burn.

I hope I am wrong about this. I doubt I am.