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Josh Tomlin, the Cleveland Indians’ starting pitcher on Friday night, looked
into the stands at Wrigley Field before the biggest game of his life and
spotted his mother and father.
It was a reassuring sight, one that he kept going back to during the course
of the game. Elena and Jerry Tomlin were sitting in the section reserved for
people in wheelchairs, a place they would not have been just three months ago.
In August, Jerry Tomlin suffered an arteriovenous malformation, a knotting of
blood vessels that cut off circulation to his back and left him partially
paralyzed. He may not walk again, but he has completed one phase of his
rehabilitation and was able to make the arduous journey from his home in
Texas to come see his son perform in the first World Series game at Wrigley
in 71 years.
Pitching in front of his father for the first time since the episode, Josh
Tomlin performed magnificently. He threw four and two-thirds scoreless
innings in front of a loud and hostile crowd and allowed only two hits as the
Indians beat the Chicago Cubs, 1-0, to take a two-games-to-one lead in the
Series.
“It was probably one of the more emotional starts I’ve ever had in my
entire life, career, any situation baseball-related, ever,” Tomlin said
afterward.
“I’m fortunate enough for him to even be here,” he added, in reference to
his father. “So to have him get to experience a World Series game and
obviously, my first World Series start, it meant everything.”
This was no ordinary game. There were 41,703 fans at Wrigley, including a few
people who had indeed waited all those 71 years for the World Series to
return. For hours before the game, there was a boisterous energy inside and
outside the ballpark.
But Tomlin was never overwhelmed. And as the game progressed, if he felt he
was getting too excited, he looked to the spot in the stands where his father
was sitting and tried to gather himself to ease the tension.
“I could kind of go to him throughout the course of the game,” Tomlin said.
“If the game was speeding up to me, just to find that sense of calm there.
What he’s gone through, I mean, that’s nothing to what we’re going through
right now. So to be able to find him and see him in the stands, it kind of
calmed me down.”
Tomlin has never made excuses, but concern over his father’s condition could
help explain a slump he suffered toward the end of the regular season. He
went 0-5 with an 11.48 E.R.A. in August and then pitched in mop-up duty out
of the bullpen on Sept. 5.
At that point, he went back into the starting rotation and went 2-1 with a
1.75 E.R.A. in his final four starts leading to the postseason.
And in October, Tomlin has been formidable. He has taken on some of the best
lineups in baseball this past month — the Boston Red Sox, the Toronto Blue
Jays and now the Cubs — and the Indians have won every game he has started.
Because he did not complete five innings Friday, he was not awarded the win.
That went to Andrew Miller, who replaced Tomlin with two outs in the fifth
and a runner on second.
Miller got the pinch-hitter Miguel Montero to line out to right to end the
inning and preserve Tomlin’s scoreless pitching line. Miller then struck out
the side in the sixth and was awarded the victory when the Indians then
scored the only run of the game in the top of the seventh. But afterward,
Miller wanted to talk about Tomlin and how well he had done on such an
emotionally challenging night.
“I can’t imagine putting myself in his shoes,” Miller said. “We are
incredibly happy for him that he stepped up on this stage. We’re not
surprised in his ability as a pitcher, but he has had a lot going on behind
the scenes. For him to have this storybook outing is incredible. And we might
need him to go again.”
By Day/Month ERA W L GP GS IP H BB SO AVG
April 3.18 3 0 3 3 17.0 14 2 11 .219
May 4.06 4 1 6 6 37.2 39 4 26 .260
June 2.60 2 0 5 5 34.2 34 2 19 .254
July 3.73 2 2 5 5 31.1 33 6 31 .268
August 11.48 0 5 6 6 26.2 46 6 21 .365
September 1.40 1 1 4 3 19.1 15 0 7 .214
October 2.45 1 0 1 1 7.1 6 0 3 .222
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