N&N: Yankees fail to get swept by Dodgers, now trail series 3-1

N&N for October 30

The Dodgers entered Tuesday having not announced a starting pitcher for Game 4 of the World Series. Yes, that’s as sad as it sounds, and shows where baseball is as a sport. No starting pitchers are healthy. Of the ones that are, even fewer are trusted by their paranoid managers.

Ben Casparius ended up starting, and was not great. But he looked better than all the other Dodger pitchers who followed him. He allowed just 1 run but walked 3. Daniel Hudson was all over the place, London Knack has a respectable line, but was very lucky on BABIP. Brent Honeywell was a trainwreck.

They were mainly victimized by Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells. lol.

The LAD gameplan had me jealous for the first 3 games. They did nothing to be desired last night.

Gleyber Torres added a 3-run dinger after the game was out of hand. The NY bullpen allowed no runs over 5 innings after Luis Gil gave up 4 in 4.

Manager to CWS

• The White Sox have hired Will Venable to be their manager. You’ll recall that his close friendship with Mike Chernoff led many to believe he’d be Cleveland’s choice 12 months ago.