Indians blank Cubs in World Series opener

Although those sticker-shock prices were outliers, most parking facilities closest to the games charged $50, and even those a few blocks’ walk away were charging $30.

The hour-by-hour forecast calls for Cleveland to be wet between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET, but just clouds from 5 p.m.to 9 p.m.

“I feel like I had some opportunities I just missed on, and that’s a credit to their ability to take some pitches and to their preparation”.

“I don’t care what time they tell us to play”, Francona said.

“What he did at the plate tonight, my goodness, that was exciting to watch”, Cleveland manager Terry Francona said. Really, the only time that they got hits was really when I didn’t execute a pitch. “So it doesn’t really matter”.

Kluber’s eight strikeouts over the first three innings of Game 1 bested the previous record of Orlando Hernandez and Hall of Famers Bob Gibson and Randy Johnson, each of whom registered seven strikeouts over the first three innings of a World Series game. That was because his right pinkie finger – which he sliced while repairing a drone – started bleeding. Tonight they raised a championship banner from their historic 2015-16 season when they became the first National Basketball Association team to overcome a 3-1 game deficit and win the series against the Golden State Warriors. Mendoza expects the 2015 Cy Young Award victor to have better command of his fastball, which she says will set up the “slider-cutter pitch that breaks on that same path where hitters can’t tell the difference”.

“I don’t worry about stuff like that”, he said.

Cleveland added another run the more conventional way on a line drive solo homer by Perez in the fourth, and a three-run blast in the eighth by the catcher finished off the Cubs, making their first appearance in the World Series in 71 years. He’s also the only Indian ever to hit two home runs in a World Series game. He recorded two outs in the first inning against Toronto, but the last serious pitching he did was in Game 1 of the ALDS on October 5 and the rust showed.

In the postseason, Major League Baseball doesn’t allow games to end early because of weather.

Kluber is 3-1 with a 0.74 earned-run average this month in the playoffs, the third-best post-season pitching start in Major League Baseball history. “I’m sure they have good reason”. One, we might not have the lead.

Accuweather said that if rain tracks to the north, there will be a spot shower or two during the game, but that if rain remains over the area, it could be steady and cause delays. He gave up two earned runs and six hits, walking two and striking out two.

“I have no concerns”, Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.

“I don’t put too much stock in the bullpen, because I’ve had way too many games where you think you have it and you get out there and all of a sudden you’re searching for it”, he said. So there were a lot of positives with that.

Now that next year is finally here, Juan Gonzalez can’t help but think about his dad.

Chicago whiffed 15 times in the Series opener and was shut out for the third time in six games.

Jason Heyward is not starting for the second straight night even though the Cubs are facing another right-hander. Coghlan struck out in both his at-bats.

But the Cubs’ gears stopped in Game 1 of the big one when they met Indians ace Corey Kluber. Schwarber, who also struck out twice, had been sidelined since having surgery to fix two torn ligaments in his left knee.