Texas at Baltimore, 1:07 PM PDT, TV: FS1
LHP Jordan Montgomery pitches for the Rangers and RHP Grayson Rodriguez goes for the Orioles. Texas has a 1-0 lead in the series.
Minnesota at Houston, 5:03 PM PDT, TV: FS1
RHP Pablo López takes the mound for the Twins and LHP Framber Valdez does so for the Astros. Houston leads the series 1-0.
- 1908 In a make-up contest necessitated by Fred Merkle’s baserunning blunder on September 23, Three Finger Brown outduels Christy Mathewson, 4-2, as the Cubs win the National League pennant by one game over the Giants in one of the most dramatic pennant races of all time.
- 1929In front of 50,000 fans at Wrigley Field, surprise starter Howard Ehmke establishes a new World Series record, striking out 13 Cubs en route to a 3-1 A’s victory in Game 1 of the Fall Classic. The mark will last 34 years until Dodger hurler Carl Erskine fans 14 Yankees in 1953.
- 1939 In the top of the tenth, Yankee outfielder Joe DiMaggio scores from first base when Reds’ catcher Ernie Lombardi lies in a daze at home plate after being run over by ‘King Kong’ Charlie Keller. The Bronx Bombers score three runs thanks to ‘Lombardi’s Swoon,’ winning the game, 7-4, to complete the World Series sweep and become the first club to win four consecutive Fall Classics.
- 1956 Don Larsen pitches the first perfect game in World Series history, defeating the Dodgers, 2-0 in Game 5 of the Fall Classic at Yankee Stadium. The 27-year-old right-hander, who had a poor start in Game 2 because of a lack of control, throws only 97 pitches, striking out pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell looking for the final out.
- 1957 Club President Walter O’Malley makes it official, announcing the Dodgers will play in Los Angeles next season. The club’s departure from Brooklyn corresponds with the massive social shift in the borough that finds many of its former residents leaving for the suburbs of Long Island.
- 1966 The Orioles collect only three hits off Claude Osteen, but Paul Blair’s fifth-inning 430-foot home run proves to be the difference when Baltimore beats the Dodgers in Game 3 of the World Series, 1-0. Wally Bunker throws a six-hitter, winning the first Fall Classic game ever played in Baltimore.
NPUT
Berlin-born Max Kepler is one of a handful of Germans to reach MLB. One of them is old friend Edwin Jackson, though his father was military stationed there.
Horrible Ball Four call against Rodríguez by the ump to load the bases. Could be an early game changer. Well in the strike zone.
Good thing he got the next batter out.
GO TWINS!!!!
Old friend Kyle Farmer is reason enough to root for the Twinkies.
This is a revolting development. I don’t dislike the Rangers all that much, but I’d have preferred the Orioles. The outcome is looking bleak.
I know. Sigh… Every team I prefer is failing abysmally.
On the loathsomeness level, Rangers aren’t quite so bad as the Trashtros, but they have plenty of baggage like this guy – https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/matt-bush-mlb-comeback-player-of-the-year-rays-rangers-padres-prison-drug-abuse/rczwhic407gp1d5g5g3is2mif
He seems to have turned his life around.
Not somebody I’d trust with anything important.
As a sober person myself, I believe in this kind of redemption. But I still want(ed) the Orioles to win.
While surfing through Wikipedia, I just discovered that there was once a professional team called the Des Moines Prohibitionists.
That’s so weird and interesting. We’re they any good? No tequila shots for them!
In 1904, the last year they played in the Western Association, tequila was probably hard to come by in Iowa.
That play by the Orioles’ 1st baseman to catch the throw from the pitcher and stay on the bag!
So far they are outplayed, however.
GO Orioles!!!