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Cleveland Indians: 5th AL Pennant
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“Well folks, it’s all over in Cleveland — the Indians have punched their ticket to the World Series for the third straight year. That’s right, three in a row. Hat trick. Trifecta. Call it what you want, they’ve done it again. And it wasn’t even hard! They breezed through the Yankees like they were a warm summer wind whistling through a screen door.
Final today: Indians 10, Yankees 1.
And honestly, it felt even worse than that.
The Tribe wasted no time — three runs in the first, four in the second. By the time the Yankees knew what zip code they were in, it was 7–0, and half the crowd thought they accidentally wandered into batting practice.
The series MVP? None other than Zakaio Eneki. And boy did he earn it. Hit .522 in the series with 14 RBIs. Fourteen! Some teams don’t score that many in a week! Eneki knocked in enough runs to feed a small village.
But let’s not forget the man of the hour today — Mike Niccolai, complete-game gem, gave up just six hits, no earned runs, threw 118 pitches and walked off the mound like he was going to order a sandwich.
Meanwhile for New York… well… the Yankees didn’t exactly bring their A-game. Or their B-game. Or any game. Six hits, one run — and even that wasn’t earned! Jenkins got the start, gave up seven runs in an inning and a third. At that point the Yankees dugout was less a baseball team and more a support group.
‘Hi, my name is Sean, and I just gave up a three-run homer.’
‘Hi Sean.’
Cleveland’s bats, though? They were everywhere. Alfonso collected three hits, Santiago drove in four, Kresse scored three times, Watt swiped a bag and threw out Romero at home just for fun.
Indians fans are partying, Yankees fans are filing out of the building like they heard someone pulled the fire alarm.
And let’s not forget — this is Cleveland’s fifth trip to the World Series in the last seven years. That’s dominance you can set your watch to. Three straight pennants. The empire is alive and well on the shores of Lake Erie.
Who do they face next? Well, flip a coin — Pirates or Diamondbacks. Arizona’s up 3–2, but whoever it is… good luck, boys. You’re walking into a buzzsaw.
This is Harry Doyle saying:
‘The Indians win it. The Indians win it. The Indians… win it.’
And they didn’t even break a sweat.”
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