WASHINGTON -- The 115th World Series became a series Friday night. The Houston Astros, AWOL for the first two games, served notice they were no happy-to-be-here pushovers. The Washington Nationals, winners of Games 1 and 2, conceded that their parade would take some work. Game 3 was a long, slogging, meh affair that ended in a 4-1 victory for the Astros, although that was fine. The evening served a purpose.
Beyond being the first World Series game in the nation's capital since 1933, Game 3 rekindled the notion of baseball being played until the cusp of November.