Cleveland Indians vs. New York Yankees, ALDS Game 1

The All-Star slugger returned for the Twins’ final series of the regular season, going 1-for-8 in three contests against the Detroit Tigers.

A new one, the only one, is about to begin. If they don’t win the World Series this year, they probably climb up the list, if just because you don’t want them to go the Chicago Bears route of having a historic, forever-beloved team that ended up with only one title.

October is here and that means playoff baseball is back.

Instead of starting their Cy Young Award favorite in Game 1 of the AL Division Series, the defending league champions will pitch Trevor Bauer on Thursday against the New York Yankees. Francona preached to his players to “win today” and the Indians did just that, winning 33 of their last 37 regular-season games to finish with AL’s best record and second-most wins in franchise history.

The total for runs scored was set at 8.5. “And if that doesn’t work, you try to adjust and find the best way that you can that you think you can get him out”.

Judge and his teammates capped a travel day with a workout at Progressive Field, where both he and Todd Frazier hit tape-measure shots into the vacant left-field bleachers during batting practice.

Cleveland has the pleasure of sending an ace to the mound almost every night as manager Terry Francona’s Tribe arguably boasts baseball’s best rotation. Even with the acquisition of these two veteran arms, the young Luis Severino has thrown better than any other pitcher in the rotation this season. The Yankees got their revenge in 1923, beating the Giants four games to two to win their first World Series championship.

“I don’t know if you’ll see a 50-pitch outing, ” Francona said.

The Indians won the game 7-2. Sonny Gray will take the mound tonight against Trevor Bauer, while CC Sabathia gets the ball on Friday opposite Indians ace Corey Kluber. I’d love to see the Red Sox advance with this new group, led by the often-unhittable Sale, the trio of B’s ringing the outfield. With New York’s season on the line, Girardi wasn’t taking any chances. “They’re a team that can get very hot”. “They can do a lot of things offensively, and they’re well balanced”.

On the mound for NY will be Sonny Gray (10-12, 3.55 ERA), while Cleveland turns to Trevor Bauer (17-9, 4.19).

“And that’s where Brantley comes into play”, Francona said. Obviously, we’re going to have to play our best.

In the National League, the Washington Nationals were also heavily favored over the No. 1 seed Los Angeles Dodgers, who led the majors with 103 wins. Lance McCullers, who missed much of the season with a back injury, might have the best pure stuff of any Astro.

Despite being from northern Ohio, LeBron James has always been a diehard New York Yankees fan. Girardi waits too long to pull his starter. As such, it’s appropriate for these old American League teams to meet up in the playoffs once again. “It’s just even more so the case with how good they have those guys back there”. He has been consistent in that way all season, maintaining a year ago has nothing to do with this season.

“Suddenly, you could have a couple of bad days and it’s over”, Pluto said. “We’re playing whoever we play and whoever plays better is going to win”. He surrendered one earned run on four hits with seven strikeouts and no walks over six innings in a 10-1 home win over the White Sox his last start.

Bauer recently lost one of his drones when he crashed it in a local park.

It was an all-around brilliant effort, but also one the Yankees are built to execute in such dire circumstances. “I took the props off this year, though, so we should be good”.