(WKBN) – Major League Baseball announced that former Cleveland Indians pitcher Luis Tiant has died at the age of 83. Tiant, who was affectionately known as “El Tiante,” spent 19 seasons in Major League baseball.

The former All-Star spent his first six years in the big leagues with Cleveland before becoming an icon on Boston.

Luis Tiant, the charismatic Cuban with a horseshoe mustache and mesmerizing windup who pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a World Series championship and himself to the doorstep of the Hall of Fame,

The deciding game of the American League Division Series will no longer be played under the lights. Game 5 between the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians will start at 1:08 p.m. on Saturday, a full seven hours earlier than originally scheduled, MLB announced Friday afternoon.

Major League Baseball have moved up the start time of Saturday's decisive Game 5 of the AL Division Series between Detroit and Cleveland from 8:08 p.m. to a 1:08 p.m., citing the possibility of inclem