Arizona at Philadelphia, 5:07 PM PDT, TV: TBS

RHP Merrill Kelly (1-0, 0.00 ERA postseaaon) takes the mound for the Diamondbacks and RHP Aaron Nola (-0, 1.42 ERA postseason) does the same for the Phillies.

Today in baseball history:

• 1971 At Memorial Stadium, behind Steve Blass’s complete-game four-hitter, the Pirates beat Mike Cuellar and the heavily favored Orioles to capture their fourth world championship in franchise history. Immediately after the Game 7 victory, 21-year-old rookie Bruce Kison and his champagne-soaked best man Bob Moose take a helicopter to a waiting Lear Jet to attend his wedding in Pittsburgh, where he arrives 33 minutes late.
  

• 1989
  “Well, I don’t know if we’re on the air or not and I’m not sure I care at this particular moment but we are. Well folks, that’s the greatest open in the history of television, bar none. We’re still here. We are still as we can tell on the air, and I guess you are hearing us, even though we have no picture and no return audio. And we will be back, we hope, from San Francisco in just a moment.” – AL MICHAELS, the ABC-TV play-by-play announcer, reacting to the Bay Area earthquake.

  As the Giants and A’s get ready to play Game 3 of the World Series, the massive 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake hits the Bay Area, causing 63 deaths. Commissioner Fay Vincent quickly postponed the Candlestick Park contest, ordering the ballpark’s evacuation.
  

• 2003 Early editions of the New York Post include an editorial claiming the Yankees couldn’t get the job done against the Red Sox in Game 7 of the ALCS. However, the Bronx Bombers rally to beat their arch-rival in 11 innings, 6-5. (Trust a Murdoch paper to get the facts wrong.)