Here are 16 Walk-Off Thoughts on the Indians’ 5-2 win against the Kansas City Royals Thursday night.
1. Thursday night was essentially a blueprint for how the Indians would want a postseason game to look like with Mike Clevinger on the mound. Clevinger gave up two earned runs and worked into trouble three times but battled to give the Indians five innings before handing it over to the bullpen.
2. After those five innings, the bullpen took over. Dan Otero threw two scoreless to get to Bryan Shaw and Cody Allen in the ninth. And, of course, in a postseason game Andrew Miller would be available.