Remember when Buck Showalter refused to bring in Zach Britton back in the wild-card game? That was 30 days ago. Since then we’ve seen 33 games, 9,560 pitches and more than 114 hours of playoff baseball. It comes down to this: Game 7 of the World Series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians, two franchises with a combined 176 years without a title.
When the Mets beat the Red Sox in the 1986 World Series, culminating one of the most exciting postseasons ever, the great Roger Angell wrote, “Sporting memory is selective and unreliable, with a house tilt toward hyperbole.