The way it all happened last fall — storming through the American League playoffs, grabbing a three-games-to-one lead in the World Series — made the aftermath easier for the Cleveland Indians to process. Yes, they lost the last three games of the World Series to the Chicago Cubs. But the Indians have not dwelled on the outcome, because they remember the journey.

“That’s the thing — you never know what’s gonna happen,” their pitching coach, Mickey Callaway, said recently. “You can’t predict how guys are gonna pitch and say, ‘Whoa, what if we’d had them?’ Well, what if Josh Tomlin hadn’t pitched like he did? Maybe we wouldn’t have even made it to the World Series if he hadn’t been pitching. So you never know. We just try to make sure we stay in the moment and get the best out of whoever we’ve got.”

As the Indians charge toward another October, the moments have been worth savoring. They won their 20th game in a row on Tuesday when their ace, Corey Kluber, spun a five-hitter to stifle the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, at Progressive Field in Cleveland. The Indians have now tied the 2002 Oakland Athletics for the longest winning streak in American League history, and they can match the 1935 Chicago Cubs’ major league record with a victory on Wednesday.

“It’s more a mind-set than anything — just come to the field every day and try to win that game,” Kluber told SportsTime Ohio after the win. “We haven’t gotten caught up in the win streak. Every day is a new day, starting over.”