Rematch. Cubs in 7 again. Suck it Tribe.
Indians take 2!
REFUSE TO LOSE go tribe!
haha, wasn't "refuse to lose" the slogan in 95 or 96? i am pretty sure i remember espinoza yelling that at the top of his lungs after clinching the AL.
It was Seattles slogan in 95
And the tribe goes down
MLB during the entire summer into fall is a grind, IMO winning games doesn't make it tougher (such as say an NBA winning streak). As I'm a casual baseball fan, I could be wrong but the players during the last two 20+ game winning streaks seemed to be having a hell of a lot of fun doing it.I wonder if that winning streak took too much out of the Indians. No matter what the players say, that kind of thing is impossible to ignore and everyone starts to grind it out on every game.
And a note to the Indians: You're down all night, you chip away, get back in the game, facing a tough bullpen and every run counts. You can't boot two balls in the ninth and give up an unearned run so that Chapman has breathing room.
MLB during the entire summer into fall is a grind, IMO winning games doesn't make it tougher (such as say an NBA winning streak). As I'm a casual baseball fan, I could be wrong but the players during the last two 20+ game winning streaks seemed to be having a hell of a lot of fun doing it.
What you're seeing is that MLB 5 game division series are more or less crapshoots. Usually the team that has a lights-out ace pitching games 1 & 5 is a lock. But what happens if your CY ace turns into a dud? Sometimes the wounds are self-inflicted, such as Dodgers managers pitching Clayton Kershaw on short rest even though all the history shows he (and most others) sucks at it. The sample sizes here are too small, but the same thing happened in game 4 with Trevor Bauer pitching on short rest and getting bombed. I'm not second-guessing Terry Francona though, because his managing record speaks for itself and Bauer had dazzled in game 1.