CLEVELAND _ Maybe David Price meant next October.
Or the one after that. Or October 2019.
Some future October other than this one.
The Red Sox left-hander, who put his past postseason failures squarely on the table shortly after signing a seven-year, $217 million contract last offseason by saying "I think I was just saving all my postseason wins for the Red Sox," came up small again in the sport's biggest month.
Price failed to get out of the fourth inning and Indians right-hander Corey Kluber pitched seven shutout innings Friday as the Indians beat the Red Sox, 6-0, and put Boston in a 0-2 hole in their American League Division Series.
The series shifts to Fenway Park on Sunday afternoon with Boston's Clay Buchholz taking on Cleveland's Josh Tomlin.
The Red Sox, who led the majors with 878 runs, have been outscored 11-4 in the series.
Price, 0-7 with a 5.27 ERA in eight previous postseason starts, allowed five runs and six hits in 31/3 innings.
Kluber, like Price a former AL Cy Young Award winner, was terrific. Pitching on 10 days' rest because of a quadriceps injury suffered toward the end of the season, he allowed three hits and three walks and struck out seven.
Kluber departed with two on and none out _ and a 6-0 lead _ in the eighth, giving way to Dan Otero.
The raucous sellout crowd of 37,842 at Progressive Field was whipped into a noisy, red towel-waving frenzy before the game as LeBron James, surrounded by teammates Richard Jefferson, James Jones, Dahntay Jones and J.R. Smith from the defending NBA champion Cavaliers, gave a surprise pep talk. He ended it by pointing to the Indians' dugout and saying, "We're here for those guys there."
Lonnie Chisenhall had the towels twirling again in the second inning with a three-run homer off Price, the highlight of a four-run inning that gave Kluber more than enough offensive support.
The right-hander resembled the pitcher who went 18-9 with a 3.14 ERA during the regular season, and his ability to pitch deep into the game was especially important given the way Indians manager Terry Francona used his bullpen in Thursday's 5-4 victory. In that game, Francona brought in stud left-hander Andrew Miller in the fifth and had him throw two innings. He used closer Cody Allen for a 12/3-inning save.
"If you see them pitch," Francona said before the game, "it certainly won't be as much as last night."
Neither was necessary.
Price retired the Indians in order in an eight-pitch first but saw Cleveland erupt in the second.
Carlos Santana started the rally with a one-out single and Jose Ramirez followed with an infield single. Brandon Guyer, who was acquired at the trade deadline, then stung a 0-and-1 fastball to left for a single that made it 1-0. Up stepped the left-handed-hitting Chisenhall, who lined a 2-and-1 fastball over the right-field fence for a 4-0 lead. Chisenhall had hit eight homers in the regular season, none off lefties. He improved to 5-for-12 with two homers against Price.
After the four-run burst, Kluber set down the Red Sox in order on 12 pitches, striking out two of three.
Kluber got into his first jam in the fourth. He walked leadoff man Dustin Pedroia and, after striking out Brock Holt looking, walked Mookie Betts. He then got David Ortiz to pop to short and struck out Hanley Ramirez looking to end the inning.
