Alexander: Did the Dodgers gain more than one game while playing the equivalent of two?
LOS ANGELES — It is as good a definition of modern baseball as any: Analytics get the credit. Managers get the blame.
But when the game turns into a marathon, and all the pinch-hitters and relievers are used and both sides have to go with what they’ve got, what might have begun as the modern game turns into something we remember from an earlier era. No overmanaging or overthinking. Just baseball.
Game 3 of the World Series turned out to be lots of just baseball, only with longer
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