You’ve got to hand it to baseball, for putting together (so far) two great games to begin this year’s World Series. Yes, Game Two ended with a less-than-thrilling 7-1 score, but if you watched the thing you know the game was much closer than that.

Every time I think our national pastime is ready to disappear completely it does something to bring me (and everyone else) back. Yes, I realize the NFL is still king these days—and it has even stepped into the future through online broadcasting—but baseball is still the main event come late October evenings. And now that it’s the weekend I can actually stay up for those late October evenings.