If Just for a Day, or Two

Well, this just got interesting. The sabermetrics’ crowd must be pulling at their collective hair after the Yankees outhomered the Guardians last night 3-0, only to lose the game 6-5 on five ninth-inning Cleveland singles, the last one by Oscar Gonzalez (who sure looks like Frank Thomas, circa 1990) on a 1-2 pitch with two out, two runs scoring. Oh, the horror. Wait, there’s more. Over in San Diego, the Padres overcame a 3-0 seventh-inning deficit against the Dodgers, scoring five runs on four singles, a double and a walk. The winningest team in all of baseball had no answer. Instead, LA batters went six-up, six-down, to lose the deciding NLDS game, 5-3. Better yet, the last four Dodgers all struck out. Dare I hope the Guardians manage one more win tonight or tomorrow to deny baseball a big-market World Series? Try and stop me.