CLEVELAND
The World Series will begin here at Progressive Field on Tuesday night, and it will do so because Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer and catcher Salvador Perez teed off against former Royals pitcher Johnny Cueto in the All-Star Game in San Diego in July.
No matter that the Chicago Cubs, the champions of the National League for the first time in 71 years, led all of baseball with 103 wins in 2016. No matter that the Cleveland Indians won just 94 games, the second most in the American League, before storming to the American League pennant.