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Miller enters in 6th, highlights ‘pen’s hitless effort
- Updated: August 4, 2016
CLEVELAND — Indians manager Terry Francona made the call for recently acquired All-Star reliever Andrew Miller much sooner than he anticipated on Thursday.
In the sixth inning of the Tribe’s 9-2 win over the Twins, the bullpen door at Progressive Field swung open for Miller to enter the mix. The new Cleveland piece in the ‘pen was asked to get the final out to preserve a two-run lead.
“To wait didn’t seem to make any sense,” Francona said. “So his ability to be efficient and get outs [was important.] … I thought [Dan] Otero, who probably was pitching on fumes today, got huge outs and allowed us to get where we can get our bullpen in some semblance of order, as opposed to just trying to fill innings. That’s a hard way to go about it.”
It marked the first time Miller had entered a game that early in a contest …
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