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- Updated: September 27, 2016
DETROIT — Michael Brantley leaned against a wall, arms folded across his chest, and just watched. Across the clubhouse hallway and inside the visitors’ locker room at Comerica Park, his Indians teammates poured champagne, drenching everything and everyone in sight as they shouted, laughed and hugged after winning the American League Central title.
Brantley soaked it all in from afar on Monday night.
“To be here,” Brantley said, “to celebrate with your teammates, with all the hard work all the guys put in together as one, I don’t know if there are the right words for it.”
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With a 7-4 victory over the Tigers on Monday, the Indians put the finishing touch on their run to their first division title since 2007. With six games left in the regular season, Cleveland can still try to chase down the Red Sox and Rangers to earn the right to home-field advantage. To get to this point, the Indians have had to overcome a series of injuries, and the club will continue to be tested into October.
Brantley is a key member of Cleveland’s core, and finished third in AL Most Valuable Player voting two years ago, but shoulder woes limited him to only 11 games this season. The Indians did this without Brantley, and despite a variety of other issues that arose throughout the year.
Also on hand in Detroit for the Tribe’s party were pitchers Carlos Carrasco and …
