You Couldn't Make This Stuff Up

Baseball: you've gotta love it:

• The first pitch of the first game thrown to the home team turns into a four-base error generously credited as a the first inside-the-park home run in roughly a century of World Series. 
• The centerfield defensive replacement and the backup shortstop combine to produce the go-ahead run.
• A Gold Glove first baseman makes a miscue that allows a run to score and appears to cost his team the game. 
• The surprise fourth starter pitches three innings of relief and is the star of the game.
• A pitcher who allowed 24 free passes in 194 innings walks three batters in two innings to lose the game.
• A red hot batter with a record seven home runs in his last six contests off the best hurlers in baseball comes up empty in two games against Edinson Volquez, Chris Young, Luke Hochevar and Johnny Cueto.
• A Cy Young contender allows four runs and three walks in five innings.
• A struggling starter hurls a complete game two-hitter.
• The controversial leadoff hitter with a sub-.300 OBP breaks the record for postseason hits with at least two more games to play.
• The TV crew loses power to their truck so the lords of baseball delay the game while fans in attendance wonder what's going on.
• The vaunted starting staff that was the linchpin of one team's World Series run gives up seven runs in 11 innings. Known for their blazing heat and confounding secondary pitches, they punch out just five batters.

And all that tells us nothing about Game 3. Play ball!