Cleveland Indians: Three Keys to an Indians World Series Championship

While the Indians pitching has been masterful throughout this postseason, the bats on the other hand have been largely absent from the scenario. The Indians became the team with the lowest batting average in a League Championship Series to advance to the World Series in Major League Baseball history last week.

Jason Kipnis, Carlos Santana, Roberto Perez, Rajai Davis, Mike Napoli and Tyler Naquin all have batting averages under the .200 mark this postseason. The six of them have combined for 22 hits in 138 at-bats thus far, and have only driven in 13 runs.

The Cubs have allowed 30 runs over the course of 10 games this postseason. The only team that has allowed more runs than the Cubs is the Los Angeles Dodgers, with most of those being scored by the Cubs offense in the NLCS.

The Indians ranked fifth in all of baseball during the regular season in runs scored, with a whopping 777 Wahoos crossing the plate in 2016, so we know for certain that the Cleveland Indians can put up runs in bunches. If the Indians have a chance at winning the World Series they will have to get close to their regular season average of 4.83 runs per game early on in the series.