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Watch: Miller allows 1st postseason run on Fowler's HR

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Andrew Miller is human after all.

The Cleveland Indians reliever had been untouchable in the playoffs, but he finally bent in the eighth inning of Saturday's Game 4 when Chicago Cubs outfielder Dexter Fowler took him deep to cut Cleveland's lead to 7-2. It was the first run Miller has allowed in the 2016 playoffs after 16 scoreless innings - and the first run he's allowed in his entire postseason career. As a result, his career playoff ERA now sits at a measly 0.36.

The blast also ended Miller's record streak of 16 consecutive scoreless innings out of the bullpen. Miller had surpassed the previous record, set by Goose Gossage in 1981, during his two-inning outing in Game 3.

Miller did recover to exit the inning without any further damage being done. He also set a new record for strikeouts by a reliever in a single postseason.

Despite facing a large deficit, Fowler's home run was historic in the annals of Cubs history.

It was the team's first World Series homer since Phil Cavarretta launched one in Game 1 of the 1945 World Series off the Tigers' Jim Tobin at Briggs Stadium, and the first World Series blast by a Cub at Wrigley Field since Chuck Klein's two-run shot off Detroit's Schoolboy Rowe in Game 5 of the 1935 World Series.

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