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Happy Wild Card Day — one of the coolest days in North American sports. I don’t know how you spent your day Tuesday. But I know how I spent mine … by watching postseason baseball for 11 hours and eight minutes, just so you didn’t have to. I was paying rapt attention when Parker Meadows’ fly ball to center kicked …

Only one player in the last 110 years has tried to do what the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani is doing this season, which is to pitch and hit successfully at the big-league level. Babe Ruth twice won more than 20 games and led the American League in ERA and starts before the Red Sox, then the Yankees, decided pitching was distracting …