World Series, Game 5: 8:00 PM ET, FOX (The series is tied, 2-2)

RHP Trey Yesavage (TOR) (2-1, 4.26 ERA, 27 K) vs. LHP Blake Snell (LAD) (3-1, 2.42 ERA, 32 K)

“Good lord,” asked Paul Folkemer, after Monday night’s ridiculous, 6-hour, 39-minute, 18-inning marathon. “How do you follow that?”

Well, Toronto’s bats did by recovering in lightning-fast fashion to deliver LA starter Shohei Ohtani an unexpected pummeling, saddling him with four runs in six innings and an L in Game 4. Ohtani had given up just three runs in 12 innings of postseason ball before that, including his ridiculous 10-strikeout dispatching of the Brewers in the NLCS.

Everyone is mortal, it turns out. Hey, he was up really late the night before.

Game 4’s 6-2 result was, it goes without saying, a gigantic win for the Blue

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