Guest Carol Channing made this episode a tough listen. “So kewwwlll” “That is so so funnneeee” “Yyyeeeaahh big time!!”

That Kirk double-play is insignificant on the cosmic scale.

One of the most thrilling games of all time. Evenly matched teams. Jays had the game a few times but Dodgers missed opportunities too. A tragic beauty.

Bo was darned if he did or didn’t. It looked like the ump delayed his ball call then, spotting, Bo off the bag, changed it to a strike. Pretty sure if we check replay it was the ump who threw the ball to first.

If life were a movie it would have been Woo pitching when Springer went deep. And he would have just missed the injured knee with his previous pitch, while snarling. But this was better, because it’s less predictable.

What are the chances that our front office strategerians surprise M hitters with the guy they least expect, Little, to close this thing?

I was expecting Clement to hit it more than a quarter inch in that situation.

If the pitcher outright refuses to leave the game then what next? Does manager ask umpire to toss him or something?

He drove in two two decades ago, but you are 100 percent right.

This is scary, the Judge home run felt like a scene from The Natural. Now we need Vladdy to put the team on his back or Kim Bassinger to shoot somebody to stop this narrative.

Yes. Fine. But if you call it and it hits the inside of your glove, the thing to do is catch it.

IKF made a boner so they replaced him with a guy who dropped one that you would have caught, Mike.

Buck, bless his heart, is sticking to his guns that the Yankees have power but the Jays have better fundamentals. But those two errors have let NY back in this series.

I’ll take that as a Scherzer.

Among the living. Among people who are currently on the Jays roster.

Ok. Fair. But how about: in an ideal world, without real-world constraints or history…you have to pick starters for game 6 and 7.

It is the final series in the baseball season, held between the champs of the American and National leagues. Yes, if Jays make it.

Who are your World Series starters? Does Scherzer, with his old-man-and-the-sea motivation get game 2? Or are you going with Gausman, Berrios and Lauer?

Nance saved the day here. Huge:

Little is smartly trying to keep the bullpen ERA from rising further—by booting every comebacker.

Great game. Straw was my MVP. I read somewhere online that Straw was the bad end of failed financial finagling by the Jays and added nothing to the squad. Can’t remember who said that.

On the bright side, the Orioles won’t get the sac fly record.

He’s something alright.

It’s Myles that stirs the drink here, and surprisingly often this year.

Why socialist? Is it to be weirdly pronounced like so shall it…or is it a historical reference…Griffin is a rightie so that’s not it…?

What’s that thing you just said?

Co-starring Tim Busfield, who also starred in Thirty Something, a condition that Rodriguez will soon find himself in. Crazy.

If you hit it more than 400 feet then you’ve got a 1/10 chance at a palindromic homer that starts with 4 and Leo got it at 424

Nice Leberchaun reference.

He has passed Horowitz in OBP, bringing his OPS over .900, and now leads the team in every offensive category (except 3B and SB). He is having a great season, a one-man-offense reminiscent of his Dad on late-days Expos teams.

You acknowledged they are playing better of late. If they go 9-5 up to (and including double header on) July 29 then that brings them to 52-55. Isn’t that a good enough position to make a run? The Braves won WS after a 26-40 start!

That’s an unfortunate nickname.