SCHWARBOARD WATCHING

Schwarber’s titanic NLDS Game 4 homer finds a home a top right-field score board, where Cubs plan to keep it

Kyle Schwarber’s monster home run sits atop a Wrigley scoreboard— and that’s where it will stay, Cubs insist

Going ... going ... gone? Kyle Schwarber’s monster home run Tuesday night, which appeared to clear the new right-field scoreboard at Wrigley Field, instead has found a comfortable resting spot right on top of that board’s roof.

And that’s where it will stay, a Cubs spokesman told the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday, insisting the unusual idea has nothing to do with superstitions.

“We don’t believe in super- stitions or curses at Wrigley Field,” Cubs spokesman Julian Green said Wednesday morning.

Green said Cubs officials sent a worker to retrieve the ball from the roof and verified it was indeed the ball.

The ball will be put back and covered with Plexiglass. Its resting place was near the “i” of a neon Budweiser sign that apparently took the steam off the ball and caused it to settle on the roof.

The Cubs made the decision after fans on social media thought the idea “would be cool,” Green said.

The location of the ball was a mystery for a time Tuesday evening, as many thought it had been hit out of the park.

The hit sparked a frenzied and unsatisfying search from fans on Sheffield Avenue, many of whom flopped on their bellies to look for the ball beneath parked cars.

As word spread that the ball was stuck on the scoreboard in the minutes after the historic shot, Dave Davison, 47, one of the ball chasers who are collectively known as Ball Hawks, kicked around ideas on how to add it to his collection.

“I’d go buy a drone right now to retrieve it ... if I could avoid legal trouble,” said Davison, who dreamed of listing the ball on eBay for $20,000 — a price he plucked from thin air before the Cubs upped the ante by deciding to temporarily enshrine it.

He has amassed 167 home runs balls in more than two decades of hanging outside Wrigley.

“I miss the steroid days,” he lamented.

On Wednesday afternoon, Green said the Cubs weren’t sure what they’ll do with it at the conclusion of the season.

“We haven’t decided yet,” he said.

| CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/AP Kyle Schwarber launched a home run in the seventh inning of Game 4 of the National League Division Series on Tuesday.

| ABC7 Kyle Schwarber’s home run ball came to rest near the “i” of the Budweiser sign in right field, where it will stay for the time being.