TORONTO — It would be easy for Cleveland to feel invincible after Monday night's wild Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, when six relievers strung together 25 outs in a 4-2 victory that left the American League Central champions one win from becoming, more simply, American League champions.
That, of course, would not be Cleveland's style. A team that saw two of its top pitchers, Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar, go down with injuries at the end of the regular season knows that nothing is guaranteed, nothing comes easy and nothing can be taken for granted.