Former Chicago Cubs catcher David Ross is still alive on “Dancing With the Stars” thanks to rain delays and a flood of support from Cubbie Nation.

David Ross and Lindsay Arnold end routine on "Dancing with the Stars." Image via Twitter
David Ross and Lindsay Arnold end routine on “Dancing with the Stars.” Image via Twitter
Even though Ross and partner Lindsay Arnold were subject to Monday night’s double elimination, they survived his awful dancing.

Ross also lost a dance-off to far superior NFL star Rashad Jennings and his partner, Emma Slater.

“On ‘Movie Night,’ [Ross] performed a salsa routine set to a sci-fi theme. As even Ross himself admitted, it wasn’t an ideal pairing. In fact, he even compared it to a bad Mexican dish you might regret shortly after eating,” said cubbiescrib.com.

But Cubs fans wouldn’t let the World Series star strike out.

It was April 11 — during a rain delay of a Cubs game — that the team first showed Ross dance live on the big screen, thus giving him a leg up in the vote-from-home competition. It happened again Monday night.

“Perhaps it was the power of #CubsTwitter. Maybe some other power we don’t know of,” said Dan Gartland of Sports Illustrated. “If you ask me, though, only one thing could deliver such a big win [to Ross]: the rain delay gods.”

Ross could have been a Dodger, by the way, as Wikipedia notes: “Ross was originally drafted in the 19th round of the 1995 amateur draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers, but did not sign and instead accepted a scholarship to attend Auburn University.”

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