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- Updated: October 3, 2016
KANSAS CITY — Jason Kipnis sat in a chair, still wearing his dirt-caked baseball pants, watching the Tigers’ game on his phone. With no room left on the couches in the visitors’ clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium, Jose Ramirez sat on a coffee table, surrounded by his teammates, monitoring the Red Sox game on one of the televisions.
The players reacted to every pitch — groans at close pitches called balls, and cheers for anything that went against Detroit or Boston — waiting anxiously to learn which city would be on the team plane’s itinerary. Finally, given their 3-2 win over the Royals on Sunday, and subsequent losses by the Tigers and Red Sox, the players erupted in a series of shouts and high fives after knowing for certain that they are heading home with home-field advantage in the American League Division Series against Boston that begins Thursday.
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“That’s exactly what we wanted,” Kipnis said amidst the cheers and blasting music. “It looked like we could have a perfect day. We were joking about it, saying it was going to be a perfect day today. It turned out to be that way. It’s awesome.”
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When Jackie Bradley Jr. grounded out to end the game for the Red Sox, who lost to the Blue Jays on Sunday, Skylar Grey’s song, “I’m Coming Come,” began blaring through the clubhouse speakers. That elicited laughter from Cleveland’s players, whose next stop will be Progressive Field for Game 1 on Thursday.
Indians right-hander Trevor Bauer will face Red Sox righty Rick Porcello on Thursday, followed by a pair of former Cy Young Award winners, Boston’s David Price and Cleveland’s Corey Kluber, in Game 2 on Friday. The fact that the series will open in Cleveland is a bonus for the Tribe, which went 53-28 at Progressive Field, marking the team’s most wins at …
