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CLEVELAND -- Looks like Cubs manager Joe Maddon is so happy to get slugger Kyle Schwarber back in his lineup that he wants to see him as much as possible. Maddon will hit Schwarber second in the Cubs lineup for Tuesdays Game 6 of the World Series at Cleveland.Schwarbers return will push Kris Bryant to third in the order.?Anthony Rizzo?will bat cleanup, followed by Ben Zobrist. Dexter Fowler remains in the leadoff spot.If we hit him in the 5-hole today after what he did a couple days ago theyre not going to pitch to him whatsoever, Maddon said.Addison Russell bats sixth, followed by rookie catcher Willson Contreras, who gets the start over Miguel Montero and David Ross. Hell form a battery with righty starter Jake Arrieta, who beat the Indians in Cleveland in Game 2.Jason Heyward, who has three hits in his past two games after being benched earlier in the Series, starts in right and bats eighth. Javier Baez rounds out the lineup. He was the MVP of the National League Championship Series but has struggled at the plate in the World Series.We kind of have a team that resembles an American League team. Were big, Maddon said. We have a lot of big guys.One big pitcher will also be available Tuesday night. After throwing 42 pitches to get an eight-out save on Sunday, Aroldis Chapman could get six outs if needed Tuesday.Schwarbers dramatic return from an early-season knee injury that limited him to two regular-season games caused a sensation as the World Series dawned. After being cleared by his doctors to hit, Schwarber was sent to the Arizona Fall League, where he played three games. He was then whisked by private plane to Cleveland and added to the Cubs World Series roster.Batting fifth, Schwarber proved his worth while serving as Chicagos designated hitter for Games 1 and 2, going 3-for-7 with a double, two walks and two RBIs as the Cubs earned a split. Schwarber has 10 RBIs in 12 career postseason games.When the Series shifted to Wrigley Field, Schwarber was not cleared by doctors to play in the field, limiting him to pinch-hitting duties. He batted just once in the three games, two of which the Cubs lost. He was retired on a popup in Game 3, dropping him to 0-for-10 in his career as a pinch hitter.While Schwarber may not look like a prototypical No. 2 hitter, neither does Bryant, the MVP candidate who has started in that slot for most of the second half of the season. Schwarber owns a career .353 on-base percentage, not including the postseason.The Indians are also benefiting from the move to AL rules, putting?Carlos Santana?back at the top of the lineup and moving him back to DH.Santana played two games in left field and one at first in Chicago.Manager Terry Francona also put Game 3 hero Coco Crisp in left field and moved Tyler Naquin to center, bumping Rajai Davis out of the lineup. Crisps pinch-hit RBI provided the only run in Clevelands 1-0 win in Game 3. His only start of the Series came in Game 2 against Arrieta.Cleveland right fielder Lonnie Chisenhall will bat sixth after dealing with some stomach discomfort before Game 5 on Sunday in Chicago.The Indians lead the Series 3-2 in their effort to win the franchises third World Series and first since 1948. The Cubs are trying to become the sixth team to rally from a 3-1 World Series deficit in the best-of-seven format. If they can, it will be the Cubs first championship since 1908 and snap the longest title drought in sports.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Wholesale Paul George Shoes .4 million title. Ryan Riess emerged with the title after a session in which he started behind, but used expert skill to gather the chips to his side amid the unpredictability of no-limit Texas Hold em. Riess put his final opponent Jay Farber all-in with an Ace-King. Paul George Shoes For Sale . 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SPARTA, Ky. -- Kentucky Speedway has changed, and we probably wont know whether its for the better until a full weekend of racing has been completed.Thanks to a repave and a mild reprofiling of Turns 1 and 2, almost everything that competitors have learned since the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series started running there in 2011 has been thrown out. For all practical purposes, Kentucky is a brand-new racetrack, to the joy of some and the disappointment of others.Its a totally different race track, for sure, 2013 Kentucky winner Matt Kenseth?said. Id say its basically like starting over.Almost since it opened in 2000, Kentucky was notorious for its bumpy surface. While that created difficulty in setting up cars to handle, it also provided much of the tracks character. The 1.5-mile oval some 35 miles south of Cincinnati was also famous for its weepers and was known as one of the most difficult tracks to dry and make race-ready after periods of rain.Coarser asphalt and a revised aggregate base, along with south-end banking increased from 14 to 17 degrees, are expected to provide relief from the drainage problems. The other major change to the track is a wider pit lane exit and resultant narrower entry to Turn 1, where the width has been reduced from 72 to 56 feet.About a dozen teams tested the new surface for Goodyear on June 13 and 14, prompting the tire maker to change to a slightly harder right-side compound for the Cup Series to address concerns about the potential for excessive wear.We spent two days testing here and obviously Goodyear needed to make some adjustments to the tires coming back to make them live, said?Kevin Harvick, who claimed pole position based on owner points after qualifying for the Quaker State 400 was rained out Friday.As weve gone through practice, we havent had any tire issues so far. But it changed things a lot with the feel in the car and the things you want in the car. So weve scrambled a little bit, and hopefully getting a little more practice will be beneficial because we still arent exactly where we need to be in terms of balance and whats going to happen the longer you run the car.Harvick admitted that he and crew chief Rodney Childers took a conservative approach for practice. Hendrick Motorsports teammates Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne both contacted the wall, and?Kyle Busch had to summon all of his skill to catch a huge tank-slapper.Youre definitely cautious just because you dont know where the limits are, and every time you go out you push or see something you havent done before, Harvick said. You start to gather a notebook in your mind about how far you can push things, how far you can hang the car out or how loose or tight the balance needs to be.The hard thing about repaves at some places is you can be overaggressive and slide up out of the groove, but here, you wind up knocking the side off the car into the fence.The rain that arrived just 20 minutes into Fridays Cup practice made things more difficult for competitors in several ways. After any track is repaved, teams need as much track time as poossible to dial in their cars to adapt to the changes.dddddddddddd In addition, having more rubber laid down on the track tends to widen the groove for the race, creating opportunities for passing.The decision to jettison qualifying in favor of additional practice time was welcomed by the drivers. Just a few days ago, NASCAR altered its rule for a qualifying rainout to set the grid by owner points, rather than practice speeds as it had been done in the past.That put Harvicks Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet on pole, with Brad Keselowskis Team Penske Ford alongside on the front row.With the major changes to the Kentucky track, Keselowski welcomed the extra practice time.The approach is to take all the Kentucky notes and run them through the shredder and start from scratch, he said, adding that he and crew chief Paul Wolfe based their car setup on what worked earlier this summer at Michigan International Speedway. Whats worked here in the past isnt even close to whats going to work here this weekend. That was pretty obvious before we got on the track and confirmed when we did.The cars are challenging to drive like we thought they would be and like we hoped they would be, Keselowski continued. Midcorner speed is way down and straightaway speed is way up, so thats a bit of a handful, but the good kind of handful that really challenges drivers and really forces drivers to really push it to the limit.Keselowski believes that the reduction in midcorner speed brought on by the low downforce package in the Cup Series has the added benefit of reducing the potential for tire issues. But he was concerned about the Xfinity Series race scheduled for Friday night.Its interesting going back and forth between the Xfinity car and the Cup car because the midcorner speed in the Xfinity car is almost 10 mph higher than the Cup car, and the Xfinity cars are just killing the tires.While the focus in the past at Kentucky was getting a car to handle over the bumps, the new challenge is to manage tire wear. With a conservative, ultrahard right-side tire and a high-grip new track surface, expect plenty of two-tire and even no-tire stops Saturday night as teams try to gain track position through pit strategy.The Friday rain didnt help things in that respect.It definitely will make the groove narrower, which is a shame, Keselowski said. The tire on the car this weekend really isnt laying down the rubber that would make the groove wider and wider.It is what it is. We all deal with the same thing and well get through it.One thing the drivers wont have to endure this year is the physical pounding they used to take at the roughest oval on the NASCAR tour. Some of them say theyll miss the bumps and the character they contributed to Kentucky, but Harvick isnt one of them.It feels great, to tell you the truth, Harvick said. My neck doesnt hurt; it doesnt pound your heels and your neck to the point where you cant hardly walk for two days. ' ' '