Oh happy day! New York Public Libraries will no longer charge late fees on overdue books. “Ball Four” and “You Can’t Lose Them All,” both “borrowed” by grade-school Stitches, are going back tomorrow.
Can you believe the Rays are gone? The Red Sox sent Tampa home and head to Houston playing the underdog role once again in the ALCS. Your Game 1 starter Alex Cora? “It’s Chris Sale … and I don’t expect him to come out in the first inning.” Sale did just that in his only appearance vs. Tampa.
He allowed five runs in the first inning, but Boston made Sale look better than Jen Psaki makes Joe Biden look by scoring 14 runs. The Astros’ Framber Valdez was almost as bad in his start against the White Sox, allowing four runs over 4 ¹/₃. Houston won that game by scoring nine runs. These teams hit. We will take the Astros for 20 units in what may be a long night.
Cody Bellinger’s ninth-inning hit put LA up 2-1, Max Scherzer closed the door and the Dodgers survived. We cut our bet in half when Julio Urias didn’t start. Down -546 lasordas.