Tomlin to take stage in historic G3 at Wrigley

CLEVELAND — When the World Series shifts to Wrigley Field for Game 3 on Friday, the Indians will be hoping 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, 32, will stand opposite Cubs right-hander Kyle Hendricks with the series tied, 1-1, 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 of such things is trumped in significance by the person who will be in attendance for it all.

• Game 3: Friday, 7:30 p.m. ET air time | 8 ET game time on FOX

In a sea of overjoyed Cubs fans 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, which required emergency surgery, watched both of his son’s first postseason starts from his room at the Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas.

Game Date Time (air time/game time) Matchup TV Gm 1 Oct. 25   CLE 6, CHC 0 Gm 2 Oct. 26   CHC 5, CLE 1 …

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