On The Astros: Orange & Black Majick

Tuesday night, the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers will play the fifth World Series game in history on Halloween Night. Justin Verlander will meet Rich Hill on the field of glorious battle with eternity (or, just the winter...tomato, tomahto) in the Pit of Despair on the line.

Dilly dilly.

Call it the HalloWorld Series for one night, if you want. Maybe the Samhain Slam. But no matter what you call it, the last twenty years have taught us that baseball played on All Hallow’s Eve usually has just a little more magic to it than many other World Series games, even in the same series.

In what has already been one of the craziest, most memorable World Series matchups of all time, “a little…