Few pitchers in baseball history have had an October like the one Indians ace Corey Kluber has put together this postseason.
Kluber has a Cy Young Award to his name already, but his performance through the Indians’ run to the World Series, so far, might end up being his defining moment to the national perspective.
In five starts, Kluber has allowed only three earned runs in 30 1/3 innings pitched for an ERA of 0.89. Among pitchers with at least 30 innings pitched in a single postseason, that is the second-best mark of all-time behind only the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Burt Hooton in 1981.