Blue Jays 2B Travis To Undergo MRI On Knee After ALCS Injury

Josh Tomlin baffled Blue Jays batters for almost six innings and Miller, acquired just before the trade deadline for exactly these pressure-packed October moments, blew them away as Cleveland edged Toronto 2-1 on Saturday to take 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven AL Championship Series.

The victor of the best-of-seven series will play in the World Series.

For the Toronto Blue Jays and their power-packed lineup, the first game of the AL Championship Series was about wasted opportunities.

Andrew Miller has Cleveland two wins from the World Series - and Toronto batters flailing.

"(Corey) Kluber last night, one of the top guys in the game, and Tomlin, he's right up there at the top of command guys in baseball", Gibbons said. Cubs manager Joe Maddon will send Jon Lester (19-5, 2.44 ERA, 197 strikeouts and 1.016 WHIP) and Kyle Hendricks (16-8, 2.13 ERA, 0.979 WHIP) to the mound in the first two games, while Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said that Kenta Maeda (16-11, 3.48 ERA, 1.139 WHIP) will start the series opener. He retired the side in order in the eighth, with two more strikeouts.

That means right-handed hurler Josh Tomlin will start game two in Cleveland and Bauer, who received several stitches to his right little finger, will start game three in Toronto.

Toronto starter J.A. Happ was more than solid, but just like Marco Estrada in Game 1, holding Cleveland's balanced lineup to two runs wasn't enough when the Toronto bats were dead silent, first with Tomlin dropping an assortment of curves and sliders on them, then with wipeout reliever Andrew Miller coming in to finish them off like a medieval executioner.

"Those big guys have been carrying that team for a few years now", Indians closer Cody Allen said.

Toronto starter J.A. Happ, a 20-game victor during the regular season, pitched five innings and gave up both Cleveland runs. Other than Josh Donaldson's run-scoring opposite-field double in the third inning, the Jays could do nothing other than dribble ground balls through the infield, and not very often.

Devon Travis was removed from the game in the fifth inning with an apparent leg injury sustained while he was covering first base on a bunt attempt. Josh Donaldson's double in the third inning made him Toronto's playoff leader in the category for a season (six) and career (nine).

But he said the medical staff is certain the knee injury that Travis suffered on Friday is different from the once that kept him sidelined earlier. "Hopefully we can get that early lead".

After Saturday's 2-1 victory at Progressive Field, the Indians lead the ALCS 2-0.

Fusion Media or anyone involved with Fusion Media will not accept any liability for loss or damage as a result of reliance on the information including data, quotes, charts and buy/sell signals contained within this website. Let's take a look at how Game 2 was won. The Indians now have RHP Mike Clevinger, a reliever, tentatively scheduled to start Game 4, which would turn it into a bullpen game for Cleveland.

Both teams are obviously looking to advance to the World Series.

Major League Baseball approved the request to remove Travis from the roster, and the Blue Jays replaced him with Justin Smoak. INF Darwin Barney started at second base Saturday in place of Travis.

Toronto led all playoff teams by hitting.478 with runners in scoring position during the Division Series, after lacking that sort of production in the regular season.