Indians’ Bauer cuts finger fixing drone, won’t start Game 2

This is just one example of Miller being the best option a team can have at this time of year. After the team abruptly traded him to Cleveland the next year, just four appearances into his big league career, rumors immediately circulated that he had alienated teammates and coaches beyond the point of fix.

Toronto starter Marco Estrada had cruised through the early innings, facing minimal resistance, and recovered after the home run in a 101-pitch, six-hit outing.

Josh Tomlin, not Trevor Bauer, will start Game 2 of the American League Championship Series on Saturday, the Indians announced.

He is 1-1 with a 6.27 ERA in four career games (three starts) against Toronto and is 1-1 with a 7.11 ERA in two career games at Rogers Centre. In his last start, he pitched five innings and was the winning pitcher in the Indians’ Division Series-clinching 4-3 victory over the Red Sox in Boston last Monday. He is quite simply the surest thing in October.

“I throw it pretty differently and not always intentionally”, Miller said. “I think we’ve all, probably everybody in here at some point or another, had a drone-related problem”. “The next guy that comes up has to step up and do their part and hopefully it’s just a little bump in the road and we can continue to be successful”. “That’s how much we think of Andrew”. And, despite all of the calamities that have befallen his starters, Francona still had Corey Kluber. But Francona said the 11-game victor is not ready, and the Indians don’t want to rush him back. “It’s wonderful what confidence and repetition can do”. They were clearly playing a six-inning brand of baseball, and by turning a lead over to that trio, the Yankees seemed to be in wonderful shape.

We’ll see if the injury affects Bauer when he returns to the mound Monday in Toronto. Francona said Cleveland’s medical staff considered putting in more stitches to ensure that the cut heals properly but decided that wasn’t necessary.

But in another corner of the baseball world, the move made flawless sense. Despite Tito’s liberal usage of his best reliever, he only brought Miller in prior to the seventh inning once, and that was to get the last out of the sixth inning before pitching the entire seventh on August 4th against the Twins. At least he’ll be able to pitch Game 3.

Francona said he did not have much conversation with Bauer, who has built and flown drones as a hobby, following his odd mishap. “The playoffs are a different animal”. By 2014, he was down to 2.5, and this year it was 1.1. One of Shapiro’s first hires for the Blue Jays was Ross Atkins, who left the Indians after 15 years to become executive vice president, baseball operations and general manager of the Blue Jays. “Especially as a lefty hitter”. And I don’t know if we really know that yet because there’s so many unknowns still. “It’s not a fun at-bat for lefties, or for anybody”.