TEX 6, ARI 5 (11)

...okay so maybe this World Series IS going to be kind of plot-heavy!

I was listening to the (not quite!) end of the game while getting ready for bed; I'm not a big "they're due" guy, but it did seem like the Texas radio booth's murmuring about Paul Sewald's to-date postseason invincibility was going to bring, or break, some kind of malocch'. Whatever the case, a Seager homer tied it; I fell asleep (soothed, I won't lie, by the reminder that the dumb Manfred-Man baserunner doesn't apply in the post) and was awakened by the ballpark hollering that greeted another Garcia homer in the 11th.

Points!

Carroll 3

Seager 4
Semien 1

(Side note: Garcia now has as many TB since the LCS began as Seager has total: 31.)

With that, Zombie Crase slides into third, but still has a healthy lead over the next closest aspirant to the money:

108 Wonsetler
103 YOLO Joe
100 Crase

83 Fell
76 SDB

54 Bingham
48 MArbour

43 Cayenne
35 Tormey

We go again at 8:03 ET; the baseball commentariat I follow has this outcome at Rangers in 6, but it may not get that far. We'll find out...good luck, everyone.