CLEVELAND: For nearly seven innings, he dodged, ducked, dipped, dived and dodged. For seven innings, Corey Kluber did what aces do.
On a night he didn’t have his best stuff, on a night he struggled to put hitters away, Kluber masterfully danced in and out of trouble and shut out the Blue Jays just long enough to give the Indians a 1-0 series lead in this American League Championship Series.
How rare is that? The Indians had never before won Game 1 of an ALCS. All of those mighty teams in the 1990s started in an early hole behind guys like Dennis Martinez, Chad Ogea, Jaret Wright and CC Sabathia.