Happy Columbus Day! Or if you prefer the politically correct Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! How ironic that on this “transitioning” holiday we may be seeing the last of Chief Wahoo. The happy, smiling, red-faced native has served as the logo of the Cleveland Indians since 1948 but may never be seen again if the tribe are eliminated by the Astros this afternoon. … Counted on Covfefe to pay for my Italian dinner but he finished a confused fourth at Belmont on Sunday.

Game 3 tonight at Yankee Stadium. Nathan Eovaldi, scheduled to pitch Game 4, was bumped up. He has not allowed a run to the rival Yankees in 16 innings since arriving from Tampa Bay. Bombers go with their ace Luis Severino. The AL wild-card game winner has a very ordinary 3.56 ERA against the Red Sox this year but threw seven innings of one-run ball when he faced them in September. Tough call but we are throwing 20 units on the Yanks.

Braves live to fight another day. Survived, beating the Dodgers 6-5. Ronald Acuna with a grand salami off Walker Buehler. L.A. came back to tie but Freddie Freeman launched the game winning missile. Win chops deficit to -669 knockahomas.