It's hard to believe but the last two games of the regular season may be the most interesting of the year so far.

How, you ask?  When the Indians have just clinched home field advantage for the playoffs AND guaranteed themselves, for better or for worse, playing the wildcard game winner in the ALDS. 

How, you ask? When the Dodgers' magic number for clinching the best record in baseball is just 1 as they hold the tiebreaker over the Indians.

For the Indians, however, there is a lot left to do.

1. They want to give guys some rest, for sure.  But...

2. They want to drive Corey Kluber through the finish line to his second Cy Young award and make his life easier in his last regular season start this year.

3. They want to do whatever they have to do to get the guys ready who they have identified as being on their post-season roster or give guys one last chance who are still on the bubble or whom may not be on the ALDS roster but are in consideration for including on the ALCS and/or WS rosters if the Indians make it that far.

4. Plus, there are the wildcards: Brantley, Guyer and, even Zimmer.  Fortunately, sending Morimando home and not bringing up Plutko, AND having all the other guys on the 40-man, I think, already getting ABs/IP this season AND  us not doing any reward callups means we don't need to worry about getting guys appearances.   The only thing that might make Tito play guys is if, like Carrasco and 200 innings, records are in play for some of the starters.

5. Finally, there is the school of thought that it doesn't make any sense to give guys rest at this point when they will have 3 days of rest starting Monday.   The only consideration is not getting guys hurt so we don't have any more Zimmers this season.  So maybe you see the same lineup and just get the reserves in earlier and use more relievers than you would need to, just like he did last night. 

So, how does Tito play it the last two games?   It might be different than you or I would do it and than other managers in his situation would or are doing it.   However, as I have said before, I trust in Tito...but tonight and Sunday still should be pretty darn interesting.