CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Less than an hour after the final pitch, all that remained in the Indians' clubhouse was a table full of signed memorabilia and an empty Giant Eagle shopping cart.
It would have been fitting had a tumbleweed or two blown through the room.
A few clubhouse attendants filtered in and out, searching for dirty laundry or a locker to organize. The players and coaches had already exited, off to secure some rest amid the relentless chaos that plagues the mind the night before a Game 7.
Good luck with that.
"That's usual around this time of year," said first baseman Mike Napoli.