Indians learn how it feels to be Miller’d

CHICAGO — Maybe it was karma, emphasis on the “K.” Throughout this postseason, this methodical march to within one victory of their first World Series title in 68 years, the Indians have aggressively employed the almost unfair advantage that is high-leverage lefty Andrew Miller in multi-inning stints that can start at just about any time.

It’s worked pretty well, as you might have gleaned.

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But on Sunday night at Wrigley Field, on a Game 5 stage that the Tribe hoped would spring them to a bubbly bath, it was the Indians themselves who got Andrew Miller’d in a 3-2 loss to the Cubs. And not by Miller. Cubs manager Joe Maddon brought in Aroldis Chapman for what became the eight-out save, and it was Chapman’s execution against two of the Tribe’s best hitters in the eighth inning that was essential in the inordinately lengthy conversion that pulled the North Siders to within 3-2 in this best-of-seven set.

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“We got a little taste of our own medicine,” second baseman Jason Kipnis said. “You see what they can do. Must-win games, late in the year, you don’t hold anything back. They took a page out of our book.”

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That page was used in the seventh, after the Indians had a runner in scoring position with one out against reliever Carl Edwards Jr. Chapman was brought in to face Jose Ramirez, who struck out swinging on one of what would become a postseason-record 19 fastballs measured by Statcast™ at 100 mph or more. A 99.3-mph fastball would hit human target Brandon Guyer in the thigh, and so the Tribe had runners at first and …

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