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- Updated: October 30, 2016
CHICAGO — There is a brown dirt stain in the lower right corner. Dark ink scribbles have blackened out the names of more than a dozen players. There are a few notes in red, and the blue border at the top is smeared. The lineup card used by Indians manager Terry Francona on Friday night is a complete mess.
One day after Francona’s manic managing in Cleveland’s 1-0 win over the Cubs in Game 3 of the World Series, even he admitted that he had trouble reading the small sheet of paper by the end of the night. There might as well have been blood, sweat and tears on that card.
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“When I went out there the last time,” Francona said before Game 4 on Saturday, “on the way back I stopped, because my card was so mixed up. I just wanted to make sure I didn’t do something stupid.”
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Francona’s work on Friday night was far from that.
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