October won’t be remembered fondly by Cleveland Indians fans as their team reached the

October won’t be remembered fondly by Cleveland Indians fans as their team reached the American League Championship Series before losing.

Cleveland won its first two games against the Yankees In the American League Division Series and eventually beat Yanks in four games, 3-1.

Against New York, five of nine Indians starters hit .353 or better.

The Tribe beat the Yankees, 12-3 in the first game and 2-1 in 11 innings in the second before New York won the third game, 8-4.

Cleveland finished off the divisional series with a 6-4 victory in Game 4, powered by Grady Sizemore’s leadoff home run. That gave them their first American League Championship Series in 10 years.

Cleveland faced Boston in the ALCS, losing its first game, 10-3, as C.C. Sabathia lost command of his pitches. Cleveland had a record-setting seven-run 11th inning to rally and win Game 2, 13-6.

The Indians then won two more, including Game 4 when Casey’s Blake’s solo home run ignited a seven-run fifth as the Tribe routed Boston, 7-3, for 3-1 series lead. Although one victory away from playing in the World Series, Cleveland went cold as the Red Sox bounced back to finish off the series, 4-3.

In Boston’s 12-2 win in Game 6, the Red Sox put 15 men on base during the first three innings, a span that required 97 minutes to complete. Veteran Curt Schilling really didn’t need all those runs.

In Game 7, the bow of the Good Ship Wahoo finally slipped into icy depths as the Red Sox clobbered Cleveland, 11-2.

Travis Hafner had four hits in the entire series and tied an LCS record with 12 strikeouts.

Sabathia and Fausto Carmona had a 12.67 combined ERA.

After Game 6, it was reported that pitcher Paul Byrd spent close to $25,000 on more than 1,000 vials of Human Growth Hormone. HGH is a prescription drug that Byrd injected into his thigh.

If there’s any consolation for Indians fans, it is the fact that nearly the entire roster will return next summer from a team that won 96 games.