The Wall Street Journal - 31.10.2019

A14| Thursday, October 31, 2019 ** THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.

Weather

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.

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Anchorage 43 40 sh 47 43 sh

Atlanta 72 34 t 58 38 s

Austin 56 29 s 64 38 s

Baltimore 76 44 r 57 34 s

Boise 44 22 pc 48 24 s

Boston 69 59 r 59 39 r

Burlington 66 49 r 49 32 r

Charlotte 81 39 t 60 36 s

Chicago 36 23 r 41 30 pc

Cleveland 64 35 r 46 30 c

Dallas 52 32 s 61 38 s

Denver 44 21 s 35 16 s

Detroit 51 32 r 46 31 c

Honolulu 87 73 t 86 74 pc

Houston 55 35 pc 61 43 s

Indianapolis 45 25 r 45 28 s

Kansas City 41 26 pc 48 30 c

Las Vegas 61 40 s 69 49 s

Little Rock 49 29 pc 55 34 s

Los Angeles 79 52 s 80 53 s

Miami 89 77 pc 89 78 pc

Milwaukee 38 23 sn 40 33 c

Minneapolis 40 28 s 42 26 c

Nashville 52 30 sh 51 31 s

New Orleans 62 42 t 58 48 s

New York City 71 52 r 57 42 pc

Oklahoma City 49 27 s 59 27 s

Omaha 43 29 pc 44 28 c

Orlando 92 72 pc 82 70 t

Philadelphia 74 47 r 56 37 s

Phoenix 76 47 s 79 51 s

Pittsburgh 66 35 r 45 26 pc

Portland, Maine 63 57 r 58 33 r

Portland, Ore. 53 33 pc 58 35 s

Sacramento 73 35 s 73 36 s

St. Louis 38 26 sf 52 32 s

Salt Lake City 43 24 s 46 25 s

San Francisco 72 47 s 69 48 s

Santa Fe 48 18 s 55 21 s

Seattle 52 37 pc 54 38 s

Sioux Falls 43 28 s 43 26 c

Wash., D.C. 77 47 r 57 38 s

Amsterdam 48 36 pc 54 50 r

Athens 72 61 t 68 59 t

Baghdad 78 56 s 80 57 s

Bangkok 93 74 pc 83 75 r

Beijing 73 41 pc 64 47 c

Berlin 44 29 s 47 43 c

Brussels 50 40 pc 57 54 r

Buenos Aires 71 60 s 74 65 c

Dubai 97 79 s 92 77 s

Dublin 53 51 sh 58 44 sh

Edinburgh 49 40 c 50 46 sh

Frankfurt 48 32 s 50 48 sh

Geneva 56 50 r 58 52 c

Havana 88 72 pc 87 71 pc

Hong Kong 83 73 c 83 74 s

Istanbul 67 57 c 61 52 r

Jakarta 93 75 pc 93 76 pc

Jerusalem 71 59 s 69 58 pc

Johannesburg 80 57 t 77 56 c

London 53 49 c 61 49 sh

Madrid 71 54 c 70 57 c

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Melbourne 90 70 s 90 67 pc

Mexico City 67 50 t 71 55 pc

Milan 54 45 c 58 48 c

Moscow 28 24 c 33 29 sn

Mumbai 93 81 pc 91 78 pc

Paris 55 49 c 61 55 r

Rio de Janeiro 92 78 s 84 74 pc

Riyadh 91 68 s 88 69 s

Rome 71 56 t 70 56 pc

San Juan 86 76 s 85 76 pc

Seoul 70 42 s 63 43 s

Shanghai 76 57 pc 75 60 pc

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Sydney 82 64 pc 79 66 s

Taipei City 78 73 r 81 72 c

Tokyo 6959pc 7057s

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Vancouver 49 37 pc 51 39 s

Warsaw 44 28 pc 45 34 pc

Zurich 51 42 pc 57 49 c

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away. Kendrick reached across the

plate and slapped it into the right-

field corner. It banged off the foul

pole for his second series-winning

home run of these playoffs. He

also hit the extra-inning grand

slam that sent that Nationals past

the Dodgers in the division series.

None of it made any semblance

of sense, but neither did these Na-

tionals, who entered this Fall Clas-

sic against the Astros as the big-

gest underdogs in a dozen years.

Their bizarre and magical journey

began with Bryce Harper, their su-

perstar, spurning them in free

agency. In a fitting twist, Patrick

Corbin, the starting pitcher they

signed for roughly half the money

they offered Harper, threw three

shutout innings in relief of Scher-

zer on Wednesday.

In spite of the odds against

them, the Nationals never thought

of themselves as a group of

scrappy dark horses—and for good

reason. They proved themselves as

a force, boasting baseball’s oldest

roster and a deliciously old-school

approach.

Only two other teams that ever

started a season 19-31 or worse—

the 1974 Pittsburgh Pirates and

2005 Astros—rebounded to make

the playoffs. Neither of them won

the World Series. The Nationals

did.

them over six masterful frames.

First, Rendon launched a homer to

erase Greinke’s bid at a shutout.

After Greinke walked Soto, Astros

manager A.J. Hinch chose to re-

move him, replacing him with his

best reliever, Will Harris. Greinke

allowed just two hits.

Harris, so impressive all season,

faltered. On his second pitch, he

threw a cutter diving down and

When Scherzer exited after

throwing 103 pitches, only 58 of

which for strikes, the Astros held a

2-0 lead. It felt more like 10-0.

Scherzer’s refusal to give in—kept

the Nationals alive, a perfect meta-

phor for a team that all year sim-

ply wouldn’t die.

The Nationals finally took ad-

vantage in the seventh, after As-

tros pitcher Zack Greinke silenced

zer gave up hard-hit ball after

hard-hit ball, it seemed downright

insane that Nationals manager

Dave Martinez chose to stick with

him. The man pitching wore Scher-

zer’s uniform, but he bore no re-

semblance to the real Max Scher-

zer. Yet, defying all conventional

wisdom about how to approach a

contest of this magnitude, Marti-

nez trusted his ace.

FROM TOP: DAVID J. PHILLIP/ASSOCIATED PRESS; ERIK S. LESSER/EPA/SHUTTERSTOCK

SPORTS

Houston

Max Scherzer woke up Sunday

morning in such severe pain that

his wife needed to help him dress.

His neck hurt so badly that he

couldn’t lift his right arm, forcing

him to miss his scheduled outing.

For Scherzer to sit in such a

critical moment, it meant that he

experienced of level of discomfort

incomprehensible to most people.

He pitched earlier this season the

day after he broke his nose and

dominated with a nasty shiner

around his right eye. That epito-

mizes Scherzer.

But just three days later, after a

shot of cortisone and some serious

chiropractic work, Scherzer found

a way back to start the most im-

portant game of the Washington

Nationals’ entire existence. His

stuff betrayed him. He struggled

with his command. He battled

through fatigue. Scherzer, a future

Hall-of-Famer, looked like a shell

of himself on the sport’s biggest

stage.

And then the Nationals won the

World Series.

In a gutsy performance that will

define his career, Scherzer some-

how survived five laborious in-

nings in Wednesday’s decisive

Game 7, pulling the Nationals to

one of the most unlikely titles in

recent memory. Down two runs in

the seventh inning, Anthony Ren-

don and Howie Kendrick homered

in the span of three batters, pro-

pelling the Nationals to a lead they

wouldn’t relinquish.

It resulted in a 6-2 victory over

the powerhouse Houston Astros, a

stunning turnaround that only the

2019 Nationals could dream of

producing. The Nationals began

the season with a record of 19-31.

They ended up bringing a champi-

onship to the nation’s capital for

the first time in 95 years, with all

four of their World Series wins

coming on the road—an unprece-

dented achievement.

Scherzer willed it into exis-

tence, giving the Nationals every-

thing when he had nothing to give.

The Astros pounded him through-

out the night, smashing a barrage

of line drives that rang out across

Minute Maid Park. A runner

reached base in every frame

against Scherzer. Four times, the

Astros put two men on or more.

They only scored twice, despite

Scherzer surrendering seven hits

and walking four.

With two runners on in the sec-

ond, George Springer rocketed a

line drive that exploded off his bat

at 105.2 mph. It landed in left

fielder Juan Soto’s glove. With two

runners on in the third, rookie

Yordan Álvarez blasted a fly ball

that traveled 389 feet. It died on

the warning track. With two run-

ners in the fourth, José Altuve

shot a line drive to center. It went

directly at center fielder Víctor

Robles.

For much of the game, as Scher-

Washington rallies from a two-run deficit in Game 7 to beat the Astros, 6-2, and claim the franchise’s first-ever title

The Nationals Win the World Series

BYJAREDDIAMOND

Howie Kendrick hit a seventh-inning

home run to put the Nationals ahead

for good. Fans in Washington watched

a broadcast and rejoiced in the win.