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Edwin Encarnacion returns to Cleveland Indians' lineup for ALDS Game 5
Posted on October 11, 2017 at 3:45 PM


By Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com

phoynes@cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion is back in the Indians' lineup for Game 5 of the ALDS on Wednesday night against the Yankees and Progressive Field. He was sidelined since Game 2 with a sprained right ankle.

The Indians lost Games 3 and 4 without Encarnacion in the lineup. Encarnacion led the Indians with 38 homers and 107 RBI during the regular season.

Here's the Tribe lineup:
SS Francisco Lindor
CF Jason Kipnis
2B Jose Ramirez
DH Encarnacion
1B Carlos Santana
LF Austin Jackson
RF Jay Bruce
C Roberto Perez
3B Giovanny Urshela
RHP Corey Kluber.

I'm heading out to the game pretty soon. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic. They have to play better than the last game, right? We have EE back, and Kluber > CC.

Let's go Tribe!!

Announcers are pissing me off already, top of the order already looks dejected, crowd is already out of the game.

Gonna be a long night.

Oh come on.

Looks like Tito iced his top pitcher..... Not a great idea...

CC is appearing to get NY calls on outside pitches.

Rats!

and we are not

We are back in the game. Go Tribe!

So, as Yogi once said, "it ain't over till it's over"!

Go Tribe!

It's over.

JR commented pregame: "They have to play better than the last game, right? We have EE back, and Kluber > CC." Well they cut the errors to 3. And EE was indeed back and Kluber had a much better regular season than CC. But .....

Skanks going home.

About freakin' time.