Another marathon

The Astros are developing a history of long postseason games. Today's game is the longest World Series game ever in terms of game time (5:41) and tied for the longest ever in number of innings (14).

You can find the recap here. The White Sox ultimately won 7-5 and are now up 3 games to 0 and most likely on their way to their first World Series win since 1917 (before the "curse" brough on by the Black Sox scandal). Geoff Blum was one of the heroes, and the monumentally ugly Ezequiel Astacio was one of the goats. He not only allowed Blum's homerun but then ended up walking a batter with the bases loaded for the Sox's seventh run. Manager Phil Garner then lost patience and yanked him. The two outs Astacio did manage to get were the result of a brilliant double play by Morgan Ensberg (who has a great John Houseman name, as some of the Sportscenter broadcasters correctly point out) on a hard-hit ball that could easily have been a double instead.

Note: John Houseman was Ricky Stratton's grandfather in Silver Spoons and also did lots of commercials. I also saw a particular episode of The Paper Chase, in which he starred. (He also starred in the movie version that predated the show.) Just imagine: "Ensbeeeeeeeeeerg". OK, so I'm dating myself here, but at least some of you ought to know who I'm talking about.