Down on the field after the game had wrapped at Progressive Field in Clevelend, Ohio, Murray was barely holding it together.
The 66-year-old star is a Chicago native who has served as a sort of team mascot for the Cubs for many years. A frequent visitor to Wrigley Field, he's often captured on the big screen, cheering on his hometown city's loveable losers. At Game 3, he even hopped on the mic and sang Take Me Out to the Ballgame, to the delight of the entire stadium.
But until Wednesday night, Chicago's North Side team hadn't won the World Series since 1908. Murray was born in 1950 in Evanston, Illinois. So for the Emmy Award winner - and Cubs fans the world over - this was a moment a lifetime in the making.
The Lost in Translation star later celebrated by swigging champagne with players in the Cubs' clubhouse and telling reporters trying to interview him to "relax a bit" before dousing the crowd with bubbly.
"I knew I was going to cry, I didn't think it was because I was blind," Murray said, wiping celebratory champas from his eyes.
The actor also told ESPN that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will give the city's school children the rest of the week off "if he's as good a mayor as he wants to be."
