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Line Score – Final
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
R
H
E
CHC
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
0
CLE
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
3
x
6
10
0
Box Score
CLE
AB
R
H
RBI
BB
SO
BA
CHC
AB
R
H
RBI
BB
SO
BA
CF
Davis, R
5
0
1
0
0
1
.200
CF
Fowler
4
0
0
0
0
2
.000
2B
Kipnis
5
0
0
0
0
0
.000
3B
Bryant
3
0
0
0
1
2
.000
SS
Lindor
4
1
3
0
0
0
.750
1B
Rizzo
4
0
0
0
0
0
.000
1B
Napoli
3
1
0
0
1
2
.000
LF
Zobrist
4
0
3
0
0
0
.750
DH
Santana, C
2
0
0
0
2
2
.000
DH
Schwarber
3
0
1
0
1
2
.333
3B
Ramirez, Js
4
0
3
1
0
0
.750
2B
Baez, J
4
0
1
0
0
2
.250
LF
Guyer
2
1
0
1
1
2
.000
RF
Coghlan
2
0
0
0
0
2
.000
RF
Chisenhall
4
1
1
0
0
1
.250
PH-C
Contreras
2
0
1
0
0
0
.500
C
Perez, R
4
2
2
4
0
1
.500
SS
Russell
4
0
0
0
0
3
.000
CLE
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
P-S
ERA
CHC
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
P-S
ERA
Kluber
6.0
4
0
0
0
9
88-59
0.00
Lester
5.2
6
3
3
3
7
97-57
4.76
Miller, A
2.0
2
0
0
2
3
46-26
0.00
Strop
0.2
0
0
0
0
1
6-5
0.00
Allen
1.0
1
0
0
0
3
17-11
0.00
Wood, T
0.1
0
0
0
0
0
8-5
0.00
Scoring Plays
Inning
Event
Score
1
Jose Ramirez singles on a soft ground ball to third baseman Kris Bryant. Francisco Lindor scores. Mike Napoli to 3rd. Carlos Santana to 2nd.
1-0
1
Brandon Guyer hit by pitch. Mike Napoli scores. Carlos Santana to 3rd. Jose Ramirez to 2nd.
2-0
4
Roberto Perez homers (1) on a line drive to left field.
3-0
8
Roberto Perez homers (2) on a fly ball to left center field. Brandon Guyer scores. Lonnie Chisenhall scores.
6-0
Highlights
WS2016 Gm1: Platten sings national anthem on FOX (2:05)
WS2016 Gm1: Lindor swipes second base on FOX (0:05)
WS2016 Gm1: Indians score two in 1st inning on FOX (0:08)
WS2016 Gm1: Miller whiffs Ross to escape jam on FOX (0:05)
WS2016 Gm1: Perez hammers a solo homer to left on FOX (0:07)
WS2016 Gm1: Kluber fans eight over three innings (0:10)
WS2016 Gm1: Davis catches fly ball, misses DP (0:27)
WS2016 Gm1: Ramirez opens scoring with infield hit (0:28)
WS2016 Gm1: Miller strikes out Schwarber, strands two (0:25)
WS2016 Gm1: Kluber fans nine in scoreless start (0:31)
Decisions
Winning Pitcher
Losing Pitcher
Corey Kluber (19-9, 3.14)
Jon Lester (19-6, 2.44)
Game ended at 11:50 PM EDT.
Here is what the baseball community thinks;
Ben Lindbergh had an amazing article about how good the Indians are at shutting the door on comebacks.
Basically, if the Indians get a lead in the first inning they're as good as a 136-win team. Their bullpen has been so demonstrably destructive this year that they can basically maintain any lead they inherit.
It looks like this series will inherently come down to who can score first. The Cubs bullpen has looked a lot more vulnerable in the last few games, but their offense is so good that they could jump to an early lead and cut off Cleveland's biggest advantage.
This means it falls on Cleveland's starting pitchers to make sure they can at least get to somewhere around the sixth inning, like Kluber did last night, and let the artillery finish up the game.
Yeah, I don't think the Cubs had any shot. I think that may have been the best pitched game against the Cubs this year. His movement was unreal.
Yeah Kluber's command was ridiculous. The Cubs have seen Cueto, Bumgarner, and Kershaw in these playoffs and I think Kluber just put up the best performance of all of them. Even with that, they were just on the edge of breaking though, and hit a couple doubles off the wall.
For some reason I still feel really good going into Game 2. Obviously another loss tonight would be big trouble. A win though, going back to Wrigley 1-1, I like the Cubs chances.
I know they didn't capitalize but those 2 innings against Miller were VERY promising. Cubs will make pitchers work knowing that it can pay off later. Usually its during the game but for a bullpen pitcher like miller making him work in any game is good for them later.
Soooo many called third strikes when our guys just watched the ball go by. It looked like Kluber was hypnotizing people from the mound.
Same thing happened the first game we saw Kershaw and the next time we faced him he gave up 5. Hopefully we can come out swinging next time against Kluber and do damage.
We really gotta take tonight, and it's gonna be all about getting runs early.
We desperately need the 1-4 hitters to get going. The Indians set the pace last night and we never caught up–it felt like were running in first gear until the 7th, and even then we couldn't get runners across home plate.
We need a Schwarbomb (or 2, or 3) to set things straight and get the bats going.
Cubs danced on the edge all night. 6-0 looks bad, but they were so close to breaking through so many times. Happy that the Tribe got the W, but you simply cannot count anything out for a 7 game series.
Hopefully Bauer can come out today with the bullpen and nab another win. Not having the pressure to have to steal a win at Wrigley could be huge.
Yeah, we left a lot on the table last night. It was just an awkward game all around. Lester got rattled early because of the constantly-changing strike zone, Kluber was on God mode, and we gave up two easy runs in the first.
Seeing us leave the bases loaded in the 7th hurt. I was using a scorecard (as per my superstitious tradition) and just wrote an expletive on the sheet after that inning.
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