David Price versus Clayton Kershaw at 8:15pm.
Editorial
I’m beginning to think that Joe Maddon has done as much damage to baseball as Tony LaRussa. Watching Alex Cora and Dave Roberts try to strategerize their way to a title, I get the feeling they both believe that the fate of the universe hangs on their every decision. It’s like Clint Hurdle writ large. Or #managershow, which remarkably is even worse than the Joe West #umpshow. They each seem to be determined to manooover into a situation where they have a lead in the middle innings and can then bewilder the other team into scorelessness (or terminal boredom) by simply making enough pitching changes until they, at last, bring Mariano Rivera in to blitz the last two innings.