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It may be unwise to boil down two nine-inning baseball games to two single home runs. In any playoff game, there are hundreds of minuscule plays and coaching decisions that decide the fate of entire seasons. But last night, one homer in each MLB game epitomized that fine line — and maybe the concept of fate itself.  Too heady? Sorry. The dingers in question: 

In New York, Aaron Judge saved the Yankees’...

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