Baseball stole the NFL’s thunder on Sunday. A compelling and potentially chaotic MLB playoffs await.

Boston.com | October 5, 2021

Beginning Tuesday, there will be more craziness, more unpredictability, from the wild cards right through the final out of the Fall Classic.

The Red Sox finished off a sweep of the Nationals on a two-run Rafael Devers homer Sunday, putting them through to the wild-card game Tuesday evening against the Yankees.

So this was unusual for an early autumn Sunday: I didn’t watch a snap of the afternoon NFL games.

I’m not sure I’ve done that — completely checking out on the afternoon slate — since Don Criqui and Beasley Reece were calling Patriots games for NBC in the early and mid ‘80s.