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CLEVELAND -- The way the World Series pregame media conferences work, the next days starter often follows the teams manager on the dais. For Indians manager Terry Francona, this opens up a chance for him to needle his player in the on-deck circle. With Game 6 starter Josh Tomlin approaching the podium Monday, Francona let loose as he left.If you guys have questions, just use pictures, Francona said.Tomlin laughed, appreciating the clubhouse humor. Thats the thing about the 32-year-old Tomlin that gives the Indians so much confidence -- he takes everything in stride.If Tomlin doesnt win, he wont beat himself, and he wont back down, Francona said of Tomlin just a few minutes earlier in a more serious moment. All the things we talk about, not backing down from a challenge and valuing winning and things like that, being a good teammate, he embodies all those better or as good as anybody Ive ever seen.The common perception as the World Series returns to Progressive Field is that the Indians are at a starting pitching disadvantage going into Games 6 and 7, because both their starters, Tomlin and Corey Kluber, will be pitching on three days rest, while reigning NL Cy Young winner Jake Arrieta and NL ERA leader Kyle Hendricks will get the ball for the Cubs. This might be wrong.The most obvious reason is about who is not pitching in this game, namely Trevor Bauer.Against Kluber and Tomlin, the Cubs have hit just .183 overall and a meager .071 with runners in scoring position. Against Bauer, the Cubs batted .364 overall and .444 with RISP. Not coincidentally, the Indians two losses in the series were in Bauers starts.If the Indians blow the World Series, Bauer wont be involved, though of the 25 men on Clevelands roster, he has been arguably the least helpful to their playoff success. First and foremost, Bauer put his club in disarray by hurting his pinkie finger on a drone, which basically took him out of the American League Championship Series. The Indians bullpen and an unknown rookie named Ryan Merritt bailed out Bauer in that series.Between his division series start against the Red Sox, his four batters faced in the ALCS and his two starts in the World Series, Bauer has thrown a grand total of 13 innings. He has a 5.54 ERA, and he did not last five innings in any of his starts.Tomlin has been everything that Bauer hasnt been during the playoffs. He has given Francona the potion to work his magic, as Francona has been able to go to his bullpen in each of Tomlins starts with the Indians having the lead or with the game tied.This has led to victories in each and every one of Tomlins three starts. Tomlin has thrown just 15? innings, but he has allowed only three earned runs (1.76 ERA).In the postseason, you are looking for guys that are not going to beat themselves, pitching coach Mickey Callaway said.The Indians wont allow Tomlin to get beat, because they will limit him. He threw only 58 pitches in Game 3, which Callaway described as like an extended bullpen session. Even if he is strong, it would be surprising if Tomlin goes any longer than five innings.We have been talking to these guys, Go out and close the inning, Callaway said. You are the closer when you are in there. Whether it is one out, two outs, it doesnt matter how many outs, just be a closer and have that mentality and dont ever back down.Franconas mindset works in nine-inning segments. The whole playoffs, he has shown how smart it is to manage mostly for today and not always trying to be too cute in an attempt to perfectly manipulate outcomes. In Game 6, there is little doubt that Franconas approach will not deviate. He might even be more aggressive in using Andrew Miller, Cody Allen and the rest of the bullpen to try to drive home the first Indians title in 68 years. This will not impact Tomlins mindset.You dont think about, Oh, great, Ive got four guys behind me that have been lights-out, Tomlin said. Im just going to go out there and throw two innings and hopefully theyll come get the ball. You go out there with the mindset of going as deep as you can in the game. 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I think that if the players are prepared to work as hard as they need to work, they can get to the top of world cricket as well.When asked which areas the players might need to work harder on, he pointed to the lack of long innings and sizeable partnerships, which has been a problem for West Indies right through their ongoing Test series against India, apart from the final day of the drawn second Test in Jamaica.I think that the longer they spend in the middle, the easier the batting becomes, he said. And I think that is one area that Id like to see improve, where youd like to see the fellows batting long, not only batting long but batting effectively.If you look at it, partnerships are important in any cricket game. The reason we were able to save the game in Jamaica was we had batting partnerships virtually whole day. If you dont get the partnerships, you wont get the performances. Its very important to take something away from the game in Jamaica, to look at how we prepare and how we can build on it.Garner said the lure of T20 may be hampering West Indies younger players coming through the junior ranks.I think that, when you look at our cricket, we are challenging maybe up to Under-19s, he said. If you look at every world competition, when you look at them, West Indies is there. Where we have the challenge is when we go away. I think everybody looks at the T20 cricket and they want to play the T20 format of the game as opposed to playing the longer version of the game, and, you know, it is a matter of choice. Why work for five days if you can work for three hours? I think that thats the mentality and its something that weve got to try and change in terms of how our players look at the cricket and the typee of cricket our players want to play.ddddddddddddWhile Garner clarified that he wasnt dissuading players from playing T20, he wanted revenues earned from T20 to be invested in the grassroots, and for the players to be able to play more first-class cricket. He compared the current situation, where domestic players play ten matches a year, to the situation of the best West Indies players of his era, who were all overseas professionals in county cricket.I dont know about discouraging [players from taking part in T20], he said. As I said, T20 cricket is used to raise finances for everybody, and I think that if you look at it, that is where we should have been trying to say we can, you know, earn some income that we can reinvest in our junior cricketers and in our local cricket.We are fortunate that we can play ten games now as opposed to five. Are ten games enough in a year? When I played, I played 20-somebody or 40-somebody games in a year playing county cricket, and that is where the strength of the cricket is - the more you play, the more you get accustomed to it, the harder the cricket is, and the more professional you become.Asked about the proposal to split Test cricket into two tiers, Garner said such a move would keep Test cricket to a chosen few.I wish them luck if they want cricket to remain with the big three or the big four, he said. You have the two-tier system, I mean, youve got to start someplace, and the only way you can get into the two-tier system is by playing against the teams that are above you in the table. If you cant play the teams above you on the table, how will you get in?So, to me, it begs the question, what purpose does it serve? Are you trying to preserve Test cricket or are you trying to keep it to a chosen few? I cant answer it for you because you want to preserve Test cricket, the only way you can preserve Test cricket is to let people at the lower level play against teams above them to be able to compete and to be able to progress. ' ' '