Welcome to the postgame show presented by Lethal Weapon on fox. The Cleveland Indians, 72 winners over the cubs and are one win away from world series championship. They are doing it with pitching and even some hitting tonight. Theyre getting it done for these Cleveland Indians now have a commanding 31 lead. All day. Hoping to see something good from their team, it hasnt happened just yet, but they are faithful just outside the Center Field Gate here at wrigley. Welcome to our set, corey kluber coming up soon and more from the field. Lets talk about kluber, a lot of angles, alice, but for me fascinating in game one you talked about the twoseamer, that is all we saw. Tonight it is a totally different philosophy. He was pr fastballs, it was an out pitch. Today 37 fastball, a season low. Very smart, very clever pitching. Tom even before the games at his best pitch was a breaking ball and he realize reat have that on the fastball when he started so he went to his breaking ball and it was very, very good. Cutter, slider, and a great fastball. Saw these guys early in the thats why hes an ace, he can really pitch. Five stars in the postseason for corey kluber. Hes allowed three runs total, just unbelievable for kluber, and hes standing by now with ken rosenthal. Your first start in game one you relied heavily on the twoseamer. Today you went heavy breaking ball. What was your thought process changing up your plan . They were a lot more aggressive today than they were the first time around. Just trying to adjust to their adjustments. Like we talked about yesterday, theyre going to make adjustments to the way we pitched the first game, so our job as pitchers to execute. Fowler leadoff double and then rizzo the rbi double with one out, did you make an adjustment after that were set just part of what you were doing out there . They scored a run there, but neither ball was hit hard, still making pretty good pitches, so sticking with the game plan down on ourselves for giving up a run. Look back on it, we didnt do hard balls, we stuck with what we were doing. Thats twice in the postseason youve pitched really well on three days rest. Whats your secret . I think is just trying to recover in between and you have one less day in between, obviously, but i think the recovering part is the biggest thing to have your legs feel normal when you get out there. I know you dont show a lot of three games to one in the world series, how excited are you . I think we like the position were in, but the task isnt done yet, we still have one more game to win. We will show up tomorrow and play the same urgency as we played to this point. We dont want to necessarily let them build up any moment, or let them feel like they are back in the series. Congratulations, thank you. Kevin, back to you. You cant pitch better than lowest era through five career postseason starts, hes the second two christie matheson. He has 0. 89 era and five career starts, two of them on three days rest, hasnt even mattered. That is a something surprising happened, going to get a world series mvp trophy for his case, thats how good hes been in this world series. I take my hat off to him, dont worry about the first inning. Left field line and rizzo through his bat out at it. They just got a couple hits off him. I think he pitched to it. He talked about making adjustments, but frank, why havent the cubs hitters been able to make any . Coming to the world series, we knew they were a bad breaking ball hitting team. This American League team used to throwing breaking balls theyre prepared for bigtime hitters because this is what they see 162 games per year basically in the American League. To win a championship you need more than talent, you need to be disciplined, you need to be calm. Corey showed both for the indians. What corey kluber is doing, hes showing what the world ive been trying to tell you guys hes one of the best three pitchers in the game, very, very impressive. He has been great, especially second half of the season. Indians one game away from their first victory since 1948. You have good pitching, the offense looks terrible, right . But this offense looks terrible in every single way. He splits of the lineup, wanted zobrist at second, didnt do it. We havent seen enough at all. Rizzo a couple good hits, fowler had a couple hits, heyward with a couple hits, but they cant just a bad time to struggle, in the world series. I want to go back to something i wrote earlier today, they handed the world series champion royals 14 out of 19 game losses this year. So theyve seen the power hitting lineups, theyve seen guys who can flatout hit, they just are prepared. This is a special team, underrated coming into this world series, but we are seeing what they dito toronto earlier in the playoffs. He wrote down three cheeseburgers with a large fry. No worries, thats later. Right on. Those bats have to wake up. I just dont understand all of it. Its the mets all over again. The mets all over again. What has happened . Great pitching, the pitching was phenomenal last year in the nlcs, what if you look at the line, right, pete . One thing you are going to slow down runs are going to be hard to come by, but they are invisible like last year. This is not a situation we can point the finger at one or two players because when you are 5 for 37 with runners in scoring position, that is a team effort as far as im concerned. The bottom line is the time of year, and ive been terrible in october and 09 we were all pretty good. This time of year you have to swing strikes. Trust your teammates, pass the baton and trust everybody else will do their job. What i see right now is everybody trying to hit a threerun home run with nobody on base. As frank said earlier, start with one pitch at a time in the strike zone. Another bad habit cubs hitters are getting into, five times or so there has been a man on second with no outs and they didnt even get him to third. You have to start cashing in on some of those one run in this they add up, but you have to play the small ball. Im just curious, what can the cubs do, though . You talk about something radical, lineup, if you are talking about putting different guys in their, they dont have a lot of lineup flexibility, frank. Tomorrow is a mustwin situation for them. You look at what happened earlier tonight, the best possible start for the cubs. Started to charge with a base hit, and didnt move him over, they had to capitalize on those runs early. Especially against a great pitcher like corey kluber. Joe maddon has been with 23 players and is in a tough corner. To me its about game planning and situational hitting. Ive seen contreras have a dozen times or so fake punt and strike one writes down broadway, and chased chase slider, chase slider. Down the middle. That tells you more about their game plan and maybe their mentality. Khoury said they seemed to be a little more aggressive tonight. The first three or four innings they were taking a lot of 1stpitches strikes. He went to his curveball and it was very effective. They have to change it up tomorrow if they want any shot at this world series. After the cubs got the early momentum, defense really failed them kris bryant with two errors gave the indians momentum. He is joe maddon talking about bryants night. Joe, kris bryants throwing errors, were either of those him trying to force it and do too much . And then on montgomery throwing to second for the double play instead of getting the fourth at third, was that a little aggressive . The first one he did appear wet, just the the second ball should not have thrown. You process the pitcher running you give it a go. The first place i think he had a shot, heady thrown wow slowed it down a little bit and found the first baseman. Hes made so many good place, thats just happened tonight, but thats what i saw. Montgomery, again, you rarely ever teach somebody to throw to third base, you just dont do that. There probably was, everything being perfectly done, possible chance. But i cant fault him on that, you are just trained to do that. You rarely think about throwing to third base to get one out. Thats probably the industrys fall for all that. We made mistakes, absolutely we made mistakes tonight, that was part of it, but again we just have to do more offensively to give ourselves a chance. Youre going to make the stays on occasion, you have to play something offensively. We havent been able to do that. Bryant is going to make some errors, but that was a weird inning because i think joe hit it perfectly, the one looped around and was not even close, the other he should have pocketed on the kluber infield single. Is there a transition, though . Is that affecting his offense . The first two rounds he has had good plate appearances, but he has been quiet here. Guard offense is contagious and so is defense. Reading body language, he doesnt look very comfortable or confident right now. An indication of this, youll see right here a couple of plays. The first one was doordie, tough angle, turned around, would have been bang bang anyway. The second one tells me a little bit about where he is mentally. When this is hit, the ball never should have been thrown. With two outs, make sure the runner stays on third base. Errors. And looking at what hes done at the plate, hes lost his way a little bit. Theyre treating him like an mvp like they should in the world series. Breaking ball heavy, cutter, slider, not getting fastballs out over the plate which he crushes all the time. Ive been in that situation, a rod has been in that situation, they want him to expand and hes expanding his a strike zone and getting himself you dont think ive been in that situation . No, your leadoff hitter. You want to talk about emotion, plenty of that at Progressive Field. They had a packed house tonight and there wasnt even a game there. Look at this. Great job by the cleveland fans at Progressive Field watching on the big screen as their indians now one win away from bringing a championship to cleveland. Lindor, we will go oneonone with him and have our special from the ball, i hear this is a good one tonight. More from wrigleyville. Another indians win. Stay with us on the postgame show on fox. Ere chronic plaque psoriasis. So i made a decision to talk to my dermatologist about humira. Humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my symptoms. Were clear or almost clear, and many saw 75 and even 90 clearance in just 4 months. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. Before treatment, get tested for tb. Tell your doctor if youve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, flulike symptoms or sores. Dont start humira if you have an infection. Ask about humira, the 1 prescribed biologic by dermatologists. [speaking foreign language] our new game, guess where this is from. All right, wheres that one survey says, no. Japan. That was easy, frank. That was easy. Hey guys, francisco lindor, another multihit game. This shortstop has just been awesome and hes with tom for you have been on base nine times in four years old, whats enabled you to succeed on this stage . Having teammates, theyve been helping me, telling me what to look for and thats what i am trying to do. Corey kluber was pitching on short rest, the cubs were seeing him for a second time in four days. First time around he threw a lot of two seamers, night a lot of breaking balls, how confident are you with corey getting the we believe in him. I am proud of kluber on short rest. He did it against toronto and coming out great for us again. Hes the guy. You are one win away from winning the world series. You havent been in cleveland long but im sure you heard a lot about 1948. How much would this mean for you, for cleveland, for the indians . It would mean a lot, it would be a dream come true. It for the city, doing it for my family, doing it for puerto rico. But we still have a lot of games to be played. We have to play the game the right way, respect them because they can come back at any time and hopefully tomorrow we can do it. Thank you so much, sleep well tonight and good luck in game 5. Thank you, take care. Back to you. Another day at the Office Getting pops out of that dugout. Whoever is telling lindor is working. Do you want to hear and unbelievable stats . The indians now have as many world series wins at wrigley in history as the cubs do. Wow, how about that. Isnt that amazing . Reminds me of a hall of famer, roberto alomar, when he let the blue jays in 1992 and 93 to a World Championship. How unique and cool is it a 22yearold shortstop is not only your leader, but your best player. Talk about a puerto rican hall of famer named roberto clemente. Manager . Can we talk about Terry Francona . It is your show, we can talk about whatever you want. It is not my show. Talking about the decision with francona, he went with his gut, he benched napoli and used santana. It worked. And they played cribbage before the game. And santana got a home run. What is he, 121 now in the world series . 11. 111 . He knows what he is doing. This is not the first time, this is not a fluke, he has been doing it forever. Hes having a great series. Let me ask you something, if he wins, it is one more win, and the championship back to cleveland, are we talking about hall of fame for francona . Since he was hired, last four years, most wins in the league. He has a long ways to go, but what hes doing right now is very impressive. The way the kids respond to him is incredible. The heart of the order did their thing. To go home runs, eight hits, five rbis. Thats lindor, kipnis. When the mound you are going to win. They have a 31 world series lead looking to wrap it up tomorrow at wrigley. But were not done. Alex rodriguez says the cubs arent done either. Hell tell you why theyve got a shot. Im pumped. Oh, man. And his pants ignited into flames, with renters insurance. Because all his belongings went up in flames. Jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. Visit geico. Com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. Today were talking about automotive awards. Which one of these awards appeals most to you . The top safety pick midsize car and suv. Most dependable. Means a lot to me. The green car because i like fuel efficiency. What if there was a car company that received all of these awards. Mpany won an award in all these . Chevy. Ahhhh chevy chevrolet is the most awarded car company over the last two years. I love it its fierce. How would you sum this car up in one word . Cool shot above wrigley field. A lot of sad cubs fans leaving snide, they had nothing to cheer about. The first inning they did, and nothing after that. Gorgeous night in chicago, but this indians team on the verge of a world series championship. Tomorrow night they will send it to trevor bauer to have a chance to do it for them and of course the cubs wouldnt want it in anybody elses hands other than jon lester, and he will be the guy to come back from a 31 world series its happened before, royals in 85, pirates, tigers, yankees, pirates again. So it has happened. Of course these teams coming back with the cubs obviously have a lot of work to do. Again, you start with this, alex. The ace on the mound tomorrow. What do you guys think, cubs dead . I think the cubs are in a good place. If you take away the two runs in 103 games, twotime World Champion at ace on the mound tomorrow, jon lester against trevor bauer. The bandage cubs. You win that game you have jake arrieta and josh tomlin. Game seven, pete, youre on your own. Facing kluber. I think you asked how may times have the cubs won wone games this year. More importantly have they lost three games in a row this year. I agree with you, jon lester will pitch a good game tomorrow night. Mentally they have to deal with jon lester and jake arrieta. As far as game 7, they have to get there. The way i look at it, they are in a desperate situation tomorrow, all hands on deck. They have to win a baseball game, they cant be perfectly plan. If jon lester doesnt pitch well in three or four, they have to go straight to jake arrieta and down the line. And you get there. But tomorrow is doordie. That is the beauty of having legitimate number 1 and somebody who has brought the gold in the past. The cubs, they have lost three in a row at home only twice this year, last in july. Hasnt happened a lot. Thats for sure. Remember, the indians got to lester in game one. The cubs have turned the fans around a little bit. I dont think the fans, when at home run was hit, the threerun home run was hit in the ninth, the air went out of the stadium. You could feel it. I think the cubs will feel good about trevor bauer. Struggling on offense, though. All hands on deck with the pitching staff. They have to hold this game to one or two runs. Call them in, you have to win tomorrow. You think of it goes 7, fox will give you a raise next year . Is that what you are hoping for . You bet oh, my goodness. In that case, lets go to game 7. We would like that, but it is serious tomorrow. The cubs are on the doorstep of being eliminated, and the indians are one win away from bringing the world series championship back to when we come back, our favorite moments from the bolt. You dont want to miss this, i am told. Thats into center. Here comes fowler. High drive into right, back at the wall, this game is tied bryant, save here comes a run to the plate 21, cleveland high, drive into right, at the wall, it is gone kipnis, a threerun shot. The indians are now up three games to one. Thats what it looked like and sounded like on social media tonight. Welcome back to our set outside of the Center Field Gate at wrigley field. Well, one of our favorite segments with come across is called from the vault. Im told it is the best one yet
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