It’s November, the season is over and it’s almost time to look ahead to next year... but not quite yet. There’s some World Series housekeeping yet to do.
This year’s Fall Classic is defined by two plays, both of them iconic: Freddie Freeman’s dong to walk off Game 1 and Gerrit Cole’s boner in the historically great fifth inning of Game 5, when he neglected to cover first on a routine grounder by Mookie Betts, opening the floodgates for a Dodgers team to score five runs in the inning and obliterate a dominant Yankees lead.
Both of these plays are precious and I will cherish them forever not entirely unlike I cherish my children, and similar to that I will adore them in different ways.