If you prefer real baseball, where pitchers are not forced to hit and sad-sack #8 batters are not regularly issued intentional walks, today is not your day, as there will only be National League Division Series action on Thursday. That’s the way it goes. Maybe there will be some enjoyable baseball despite this flaw.
The nights of one-and-done baseball are over. Now we can sink our teeth into some best-of-five series. The Cardinals and Braves are up first in Atlanta, with the strange scheduled start time of 5:02, with the Dodgers and Nationals in Los Angeles later, starting at 8:37 Eastern.