Happy Columbus Day! And a happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day to Mayor Bill de Meatball. … Jets/Falcons overseas. Over/Under on national anthems was 2 ¹/₂. … With the Yanks and Mets seasons over and the Giants and Jets at 1-4, New York sports fans have been reduced to cheering Kyrie Irving for showing up at Nets practice. Yes, the bar has been lowered.
Game 3 between the Brewers and Bravos in Hotlanta. Ian Anderson (9-5) goes for the home team. Anderson has quickly built a solid postseason résumé. He is 2-0 in four starts, his ERA a deGrom-like 0.96. Milwaukee’s Freddy Peralta (10-5) will be making his first postseason start. Steady Freddy, dependable all year, allowed seven runs over his last 11 ¹/₃ innings. Anderson ended his season surrendering 17 runs over his last 34 frames. We had the Braves when they bruised the Brews in Game 2, but we will go with the Brewers for 10 units.
Christian Vazquez! Bosox outlasted the Rays, 6-4, in 13 innings. Nick Pivetta pitched four scoreless innings in relief before Vazquez’s blast ended it. Down -598 fredlynns.