"Giancarlo, Non si può de Stoparlo!"

Your daily dose of postseason baseball—plus a little tennis.

Meet the Mets! Did the Padres blunder? Giancarlo! The Tigers’ boring toward destiny! Vamos, Rafa!

But first, a message from Nick Offerman.

“Swing of a Lifetime”

Today’s roundup will be more than slightly tinged by the fact that I spent all afternoon and evening Wednesday doing a super-fun WHY WE LOVE FOOTBALL event at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh.* As such, I didn’t watch any of the baseball games live. I listened to a couple on the radio. I followed one on my phone. And the key moment of the Mets-Phillies game happened when I was talking about football’s many miracles and the Butt Fumble and The Play and Cleveland Browns heartbreak and such things.

*A Brilliant Reader—identify yourself for everyone!—brought three packs of football cards to the event and asked me to open them up and talk about the players. This was such a magnificent idea because it both (A) made me intensely happy and (B) made me very angry I didn’t think of it myself. The second card I opened, by the way, was a 1990 Score Bo Jackson.

When we opened things up for questions, a guy wearing an orange Mets shirt raised his hand.