"Baseball And Life"

The World Series…

American League juggernaut Houston Astros (107-55 regular season record) versus the National League’s Washington Nationals (93-69, starting the season a teetering 19-31.)

Looks to me like an Astros “Sweep.”  (Astros winning four-games-to-nothing, in a “Best of Seven” game series.)

Okay.

First two games, played on the Astros home field –

Washington wins both games.

Head-scratching, but interesting. 

Next three games, played on the Nationals’ home field –  

Astros win all three.

Now that’s better.  Astros lead three-games-to-two, heading to Houston for “Game Six.”  And “Game Seven.”  If necessary. 

Washington wins “Game Six.” 

Series tied three-games-to-three.

Okay, “Game Seven.”  Here we go.

Astros take a 2-0 lead into the seventh inning, and there you have it.

Baseball and Life:

A winding road to an inevitable ending.

Except…

Washington scores three runs in the seventh, one in the eight, and two in the ninth.

Washington wins “Game Seven” and the Series.

Hm.  I guess baseball isn’t like Life.

Only one of them has an inevitable ending.

And it certainly ain’t baseball.

Congrats to the Nats!

I was rootin’ for you all the way.

(Note:  I actually was.  I am a life-long “Underdogs” guy.  Which I temporarily forgot,  but remembered, right after the first pitch.)