CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Guardians had executed their pitching blueprint to near-perfection Thursday, but when two of baseball’s biggest outliers collide, there is no accounting for the chaos ...

One of the Cleveland Guardians' strengths in the regular season and heading into the playoffs was their bullpen, headlined by closer Emmanuel Clase. The 26-year-old closer had been unstoppable ...

Clase has allowed more runs this postseason than regular season / David Dermer-Imagn Images It's been a tale of two seasons for Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase. The Cleveland Guardians reliever ...

Emmanuel Clase was virtually invincible in the regular season. In the postseason, he's been hit hard, and now twice in a row ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland All-Star closer Emmanuel Clase gave up two runs in the ninth inning and the New York Yankees moved closer to another World Series, beating the Guardians 8-6 on Friday ...

Emmanuel Clase is the best closer in baseball, but on Thursday night, he looked like anything but. The Cleveland Guardians reliever allowed just two home runs in the entire regular season ...

In other words, Thursday's ALCS Game 3 was a must win game for Cleveland ... for the second time this postseason, Emmanuel Clase flinched. The Guardians had a 92.9 percent chance to win Thursday ...

CLEVELAND — The Guardians had control of Game 3 of the American League Championship Series until the New York Yankees hit back-to-back home runs off closer Emmanuel Clase in the eighth inning.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Unchallenged. Unshakeable. Unhittable for six months, Emmanuel Clase hasn't been close to being the same closer in October. The Guardians haven't been able to count on him when ...

CLEVELAND — The New York Yankees keep tugging on Superman's cape, and they keep getting away with it. Perhaps it's because they no longer fear him. For six months, Emmanuel Clase was nearly ...