Routine-driven Kluber a rock for Indians

CLEVELAND — Baseball will bask in pure revelry upon the christening of a World Series brimming with history on Tuesday night, and Indians starter Corey Kluber, standing opposite lefty Jon Lester and the Cubs at Progressive Field, will be at the center of it all, balancing the storm with his calm.

See, this is business as usual for Kluber, even if the circumstances are anything but ordinary.

• World Series Game 1: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. ET air time/ 8 game time on FOX

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“Obviously, you’re in the World Series, and there’s two teams left and all that kind of stuff,” Kluber said on the eve of Game 1. “But at the same time, I think you’re so wrapped up in the moment of trying to prepare and do everything you can to be ready that. For me, it’s been all about getting prepared and being ready when it is time to throw that first pitch tomorrow.

“It will probably be something that will take more time to reflect on after the fact.”

For now, at least, there’s no time for reflecting when you’re Kluber. So fully is Cleveland’s ace devoted to his preparation, that he maintains it like clockwork — an attribute that should serve him especially well when the Indians take to the field as hosts of a World Series game.

“Obviously, guys prepare, but it’s the degree that he prepares that separates him for me,” Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway said. “I mean, he goes above and beyond. Literally, at …

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