Chicago will send Kyle Hendricks to the mound, who was the winning pitcher in game one. Nationals manager Dusty Baker hasn’t decided who will get the start, saying he would make up his mind later today after evaluating his rotation.<\/p>\n
Few fans could have saw this coming. From August 24 through September 15, the Indians set a new American League record by winning 22 straight games. They won 100 games for only the third time in franchise history, and held home field advantage throughout the AL playoffs.<\/p>\n
They were led by ace Corey Kluber, the likely 2017 AL Cy Young winner who went 18-4 on the season with a 2.25 ERA. But in his two starts in the ALDS, he pitched just over six innings, giving up nine total earned runs on a 20.25 ERA.<\/p>\n
\n“Nobody wanted the season to be over,” Indians manager Terry Francona said after the upset. “It doesn’t wind down, it comes to a crashing halt.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The World Series odds of the Cleveland Indians returning to the Fall Classic for the second straight year were quite strong heading into the American League Division Series (ALDS). They only shortened after the Tribe went up 2-0 on the New York Yankees, but anything can happen in the MLB Playoffs, and the unthinkable did. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":60689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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