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That should have been the end of the inning. ''I saw Frankie going to my right and the umpire crossing over and going to my left. I turned around to throw it,'' Bauer said. But the right-hander's throw to second was off line, pulling Lindor off the bag and and both runners were safe - a mistake that surely will haunt the enigmatic pitcher all winter.

īauer got the dangerous Alex Bregman to hit a comebacker. Jose Altuve grounded into a forceout, with Kemp scoring to tie it 2-2. Springer reached on a dribbler that catcher Yan Gomes couldn't make a play on as Kemp took third. Tony Kemp singled and was awarded second when Bauer's pickoff throw hopped into the photographer's pit. The starter-turned-postseason reliever, who took the loss, stooped behind the mound and dropped his head after his two errant throws. With a major assist, actually two of them by Bauer, the Astros rallied off Bauer. ''This is isn't the way we want it to end.''įrancisco Lindor homered off a circular digital clock in the fifth off Dallas Keuchel to give Cleveland a 2-1 lead that vanished in the seventh. ''There's probably a million things you could point to why we didn't win three games,'' said Miller, who was on the disabled list three times this year.

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Reliever Andrew Miller, one of several potential free agents, couldn't allow himself to think about the future while saying goodbye to teammates. ''So that's a hard one, when you're saying goodbye before you're ready to.'' You know there's going to be some turnover, and it's a real special group to all of us. I just told the guys, we've got a number of guys that are free agents. ''We got to go home now, before we're ready to,'' manager Terry Francona said. They were swept for the first time since the 1954 World Series.

144 in the series, were outscored 21-6 and have lost six straight playoff games.

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Cleveland was beaten in the first round for the second year in a row - New York came back from a 2-0 deficit in 2017 - and baseball's longest World Series championship drought will reach a 71st anniversary. George Springer homered twice, Carlos Correa hit three-run homer for his first hit of the postseason and Houston's bullpen combined for four scoreless innings, including six straight outs by winner Collin McHugh, as the AL West champions served notice that a second Series title is on their itinerary.Īfter the Astros finished this demolition of the Indians, they briefly celebrated on the infield at Progressive Field before donning ski goggles in their clubhouse.įor the Indians, another postseason ended earlier than planned. The Astros moved to the ALCS on-deck circle, where they await the Boston-New York winner for a shot to play for another championship. As you can see, our guys are pretty hungry to advance.'' ''So proud of our guys, the work they put into the winter. ''We're the reigning world champs, and we really have a good ability to show up for the day,'' Houston manager A.J. Marwin Gonzalez hit a two-run double off Bauer in a three-run seventh inning, and the Astros scored 10 runs in their final three at-bats to turn a series that was supposed to be competitive into a complete rout. But when it comes to Neris and his splitter, at least you know it's going to be a fascinating journey.''We have the most complete team in baseball.'' Will he stick with what's familiar and continue throwing more splitters? Or will he continue to experiment, working with the Astros staff to find the best pitch mix? Going forward, it will be very interesting to see what Neris does with his favorite pitch.

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