Player of the game: Home-plate umpire Phil Cuzzy. Not because he did a great job but because he had the greatest impact on the game, frequently calling strikes that were outside of the strike-zone. Sure seems that starting pitchers Clayton Kershaw (Dodgers) and Dallas Keuchel (Astros) pitched well. At the same time it didn't hurt that they were able to throw strikes below batters' knees and outside the plate.
Justin Taylor, the two-headed monster of the Dodgers lineup, provided all the Dodgers offense. Chris Taylor led-off the game with a monstrous home-run. Joe Buck asked during a replay, "did that ball *actually* get outta here?" It reached the back rows of the stands, that's for sure.
Major League Baseball got its wish: a short game, 2 hours 28 minutes (or was it 24?). Now is that really what baseball wants to increase its fan appeal? A pitcher's duel where the hitters don't hit, and the pitchers are aided by Phil Cuzzy? It certainly didn't seem to be the game George Springer, Jose Altuve, and several other Astros wanted when they were called out on strikes that weren't in the strike zone. 2 hours and 28 minutes, featuring 2 minutes of offense. That's really gonna draw the fans.
It's the climate-change world series. 103 degrees at the time of first-pitch.
I'm guessing this was the first world series game to feature a commercial explicitly calling for the impeachment of the sitting president of the united states. And I am sure he was sitting. Thank you, Tom Steyer, for buying ad time calling for said impeachment. I checked out the website and signed the petition, even though I kinda sense the whole Russia-hacked-the-2016-election is a Democrats' fever dream.
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