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Hillbilly wrote:

TFIR wrote:Co-stealth MVPs - the front office. Coco, Nap, Rajai. All been key contributors at key times. The little things win games for this team.

Are you kidding TFIR?

What, the first 5 games of the playoffs were not key, cause Napoli and Rajai did absolutely nothing!

Yeah. So nice of Napoli to have a good game once every couple weeks between all the outs and K's.

It's a big puzzle the front office has to put together. The pieces ideally will fit together.

As in, one teammate has the other teammate's back. One teammate can do things the other can't. Etc.

Pretty obvious how well this team was constructed, hard to argue at this point.

This really is unprecedented, at least as long as I have been following the Indians.
We are in the playoffs, and we won the first round with 3 straight victories. Now we have won 3 in a row in this series.
We have yet to lose in postseason.
Amazing!

With the bizarre way this is all developing, I think a likely scenario today is Kluber reinjures his quad in around the third inning. Clevinger comes in and pitches perfect ball for 2 or 3 innings. Then Cody Anderson does the same and Tribe completes the sweep.

StatCast analysis of the Crisp catch and the Kipnis game-ender

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/206411446 ... donaldson/

http://m.mlb.com/cle/video/topic/739551 ... /?c_id=cle

Do they open?

I know it's early, but I don't have a good feeling about today's game.

Kluber doesn't have it today

Of course, he settled down right after I posted that!

Kiss of life!

It's up to the pen now.

GREAT catch by Chiz!!

Not used to playing from behind!

Not looking good...

I know this sounds negative, but assuming a loss today, the Jays will be pumped for tomorrow, and we may well head back home leading the series by only one game. With out depleted pitching staff (starters and relievers), it could be a tough row to hoe.

Hmm... I was the only one who posted during the game. I guess everyone else thinks it starts at 8?

Tomorrow is a 4 PM start, too!

This midnight guy crawled out of bed early today to watch game. I haven't been posting during games though, and as long as we're winning I won't change that. You don't mess with a winning streak.

Matter of fact, our Pomeranian has been wearing his Indians jersey ever since the playoffs started. I wouldn't let my wife take it off cause you don't mess with a streak!

I finally took it off this evening to wash it. It will be back on tomorrow.

Our two Shih Tzu's hate wearing shirts so I don't do that to them. But he likes it. Matter of fact he gets mad when you take them off and stomps off to bedroom by himself to sulk. So I'll keep it up with him.

I had a turkey sammich and Pringles for lunch at game time. I won't be eating that any more for the next few weeks.

Doing my part here.

TFIR, it's too bad your great acquisitions didn't view today's game as key. We could have used some runs. The three you mentioned were 0-6.

Your post was obvious, yes. You like to point out when Nap or Davis has a good game. I just can't believe you aren't embarrassed by the fact you only get to post it once every couple weeks.

(Don't get mad at me. I bashed Nap the other day and he had a good game. I said I was going to lay it on thick. Again, I'm just trying to do my part here)