So many World Series-winning opportunities all missed by so improbably little, that the final, series-deciding one was the compromised structural integrity of a baseball bat.

The Blue Jays forced the series to need all seven games, forced two of them (3 and 7) to need extra innings, outscored the Dodgers 34 runs to 26, out-hit them 75-53, and out-fielded them 0 errors to 3.

The worse of the two teams won.