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YOUR 2016 Cleveland Indians Thread (American League CHAMPS!)

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Well, guess who all the pressure is on now?

Tribe have somehow managed to put themselves in a position of pressure vs. a team that hasn't won in 40 years longer than themselves. Cubs are loose and bats are going. That wins baseball game.

This is just shitty.

(Kluber, bats, one game...please)
 
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I hope Cleveland wins just as a huge big FUCK YOU to them.

How awesome would that be?

If Kluber can give us 4 scoreless we will be ok because I thought we did well against Hendrix last time they just got out of a ton of jams.

We have got to swing with people in scoring position. We can't let the counts get to 0-2
 
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Klubot had better channel his inner Jack Morris tonight, because he has to be spotless. Miller and Allen are fresh, so it's good to go pitching-wise...with the caveat they can't give up a single run.

That said, I expect a 1-0 loss in 12 when Bauer gives up a homer, and a rapid decline to oblivion like the last time these goat lickers blew a 3-1 lead (to Francona of all shit)
 
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Bucklion said:
Klubot had better channel his inner Jack Morris tonight, because he has to be spotless. Miller and Allen are fresh, so it's good to go pitching-wise...with the caveat they can't give up a single run.

That said, I expect a 1-0 loss in 12 when Bauer gives up a homer, and a rapid decline to oblivion like the last time these goat lickers blew a 3-1 lead (to Francona of all [Mark May])
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:lol::lol: Holy shit we can only hope Francona would not even consider letting Bauer pitch in this game under any circumstance
 
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Bucklion said:
Klubot had better channel his inner Jack Morris tonight, because he has to be spotless. Miller and Allen are fresh, so it's good to go pitching-wise...with the caveat they can't give up a single run.

That said, I expect a 1-0 loss in 12 when Bauer gives up a homer, and a rapid decline to oblivion like the last time these goat lickers blew a 3-1 lead (to Francona of all [Mark May])
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I'm just curious to see the approach by Kluber. The Cubs are going to be ultra aggressive again. Bottom line is though, Kluber can afford to use 100 pitches in 5 innings, I'm not saying nibble but, I'm saying maybe first time through the order feature the change, which he hasn't thrown much out of the zone and get them to expand again. Salazar's change was pretty effective last night for the little he threw it.

And for God's sake, start Davis in Center. I don't even really care if he leads off or not, but, Naquin is completely lost right now at the plate. Adventures in the outfield aside, I'd rather have Davis get the bat on the ball and run.
 
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I'm just curious to see the approach by Kluber. The Cubs are going to be ultra aggressive again. Bottom line is though, Kluber can afford to use 100 pitches in 5 innings, I'm not saying nibble but, I'm saying maybe first time through the order feature the change, which he hasn't thrown much out of the zone and get them to expand again. Salazar's change was pretty effective last night for the little he threw it.

And for God's sake, start Davis in Center. I don't even really care if he leads off or not, but, Naquin is completely lost right now at the plate. Adventures in the outfield aside, I'd rather have Davis get the bat on the ball and run.
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Kluber has pitched 2 different games already, so I fully expect him to mix it up again. Fastball/change should work like fastball/hook last time. The problem is Indians hitters watch pitches down the middle, then go Vlad Guerrero if it's between the dugouts. They have to have better approaches, or it won't matter what Kluber does
 
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Yes give me Davis any day in this game. What's nice is there's no tomorrow and no saving Kluber this time. He didn't need to come out of the last two starts but was pulled because we had the lead and we wanted to limit his pitches.

A big lay off between this series, limited pitches his first two games and I feel Kluber will be ok.

The key to this game IMO is getting through the top of the first as clean as you can. Hopefully 3 up and 3 down but we cannot let them get to the 6th spot in their line up. The least times 2-5 hit for them the better.
 
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Bucklion said:
Kluber has pitched 2 different games already, so I fully expect him to mix it up again. Fastball/change should work like fastball/hook last time. The problem is Indians hitters watch pitches down the middle, then go Vlad Guerrero if it's between the dugouts. They have to have better approaches, or it won't matter what Kluber does
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Welp, I dunno what they can do exactly except just decide to zone off and guess early in the count. Hendricks isn't going to bomb the middle of the plate, so, I think to some degree you'd hope they'd figure out they can't wait for a mistake to hit. Other thing is, they all need a reminder you can't hit a 3 run home run if no one is on base. They need to get the bat on the ball and make something happen that way. They did get 6 hits and 2 walks in 4 1/3 off him last time... (who was it Grimm got him out of it on the double play I think) whatever that plan was, I'd do it again. Just getting him out of the game by then would be good, but, that's playing with fire for the Cubs. I get that Lester and Lackey are available to pitch but, that's an out of comfort zone plan... so, it is what it is. I'd take my chances with Lackey, anyway.
 
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Kluber got stronger this year the more times he faced teams

But with Kluber, the numbers show he gets better and better the more he sees rival hitters. In 2016, in his first start against an opponent, he went 7-7 with a 3.82 ERA.

His second time facing opponents, he was 8-2 with a 2.55 ERA. And his third time against rivals, he was 2-0 with a 1.71 ERA.
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I don't think fatigue will be an issue either, he worked pretty easily in 1 and 4.

The key to this game is going to be making Henricks work like @AKAK said, don't hack and make a bunch of 2/3/4 pitch outs make him stress and work the count, get base hits and draw walks dont go up swinging for the fences every time.
 
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