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Tomlin to take historic stage in G3 at Wrigley
- Updated: October 27, 2016
CLEVELAND — When the World Series shifts to Wrigley Field for Game 3 on Friday, the Indians hope to get more of the same from right-hander Josh Tomlin, the unheralded veteran who has enjoyed tremendous success on the postseason stage this month.
Tomlin will stand opposite Cubs right-hander Kyle Hendricks in a setting baseball hasn’t seen since 1945. That’s the last time Wrigley Field hosted a World Series game. The historic element that weighs on this affair is not lost on Tomlin, but his appreciation for such things is trumped in significance by who will be in attendance for it all.
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In a sea of overjoyed Cubs fans, there will sit Tomlin’s father, Jerry, released from the hospital just last week. Jerry, who has been paralyzed from the chest down since mid-August because of a rare condition called an arteriovenous malformation that required emergency surgery, watched both of his son’s first postseason starts from his room at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas.
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