TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors are fortunate to be playing in the shadow of the Toronto Blue Jays right now. Even as they were getting beaten by the Houston Rockets at home, the crowd at Scotiabank Arena was being distracted by their baseball brethren’s heroics, with one of the biggest cheers of the night coming when public address announcer Herbie Kuhn told the crowd that the Jays had hit consecutive home runs to start Game 5 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

At the precise moment leadoff hitter Davis Schneider hit Blake Snell’s first-pitch fastball over the fence in left at Chavez Ravine, the Raptors were actually doing some good things. The Jays’ opening blow was sandwiched between a Brandon Ingram three-pointer and Scottie Barnes dunking home his own miss to cut the Rockets’ lead to sev

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