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The Indians finished the season with a record of 102–60, the most wins the franchise had seen since 1954, the best record in the American League and second best overall. The team won their second straight American League Central title, but were upset by the New York Yankees in five games in the ALDS despite holding a 2–0 series lead.
September 15 – The Cleveland Indians' American League record-breaking winning streak stopped straight at 22 with a 4–3 loss to the Kansas City Royals at Progressive Field. [115] September 16 – The Cleveland Indians earned their second straight American League Central Division championship, a first for the team since the 1998 and 1999 seasons.
Since then, the Indians have had three periods of success. The first was from 1947 to 1956, when they had winning records in every season, including a 111–43 record in 1954, which remains the best Major League Baseball regular season record since the 1909 Pirates, and won their only other World Series in 1948.
The Cleveland Indians established a new Major League record for most consecutive games won in stunning fashion on Thursday night, scoring a run each in the ninth and 10th innings to steal a 3-2 ...
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This World Series set a new record for most players to hit a home run (14 to date in the World Series). With the teams combining to score 25 runs throughout the game, this was the highest scoring World Series game since the Florida Marlins defeated the Cleveland Indians 14–11 in Game 3 of the 1997 World Series. [55]
For the 2017 season, the TrackMan component of Major League Baseball's Statcast platform has replaced the previous PITCHf/x system for official measurements of pitch speed. The new system uses a doppler radar to calculate pitch speed based on maximum velocity (typically from the release of the pitch), rather than the speed measured 55 feet (17 ...