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Sleepless Francona ordered $44 worth of ice cream at 3:30 a.m.

David Richard / Reuters

The Cleveland Indians are one win away from securing the franchise's first World Series title since 1948, and although manager Terry Francona has been in this situation when he was manager of the Boston Red Sox, his nerves are getting to him a bit.

With Game 5 looming, the skipper was unable to sleep, so he had to find something to take his mind off things.

To cope with his sleeplessness, Francona called room service and ordered $44 worth of ice cream to his room.

"I had the brownie sundae, I had two orders of chocolate, and two orders of vanilla with chocolate sauce. And then to kind of keep it healthy, I ordered the berries. Oh, and a Diet Coke," Francona described of his order, according to Zack Meisel of Cleveland.com.

"Guy asked me how many people is that for? I said 'One,'" Francona explained, according to Cleveland.com's Paul Hoynes.

The decadent purchase doesn't come as a surprise for the sweet-toothed Francona, who normally has a personal five-pound bucket of Dubble Bubble sitting in the Indians' dugout with him for every game, and who once ate 17 grape popsicles in one day.

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