“I gotta take a sh–.” Giants Eli Apple will be frequenting the toilets of New Orleans from now on. Patron Saint of the outhouse is first out the door as the 1-6 Giants begin Operation: Housecleaning. Giants receive draft picks in exchange for Apple and a pair of plungers. … In other transaction news, the free world gets Rae Carruth in exchange for Lenny “Nailed” Dykstra.

We paid the price picking against David Price last week. He turned around his postseason misfortunes with a convincing series clincher against the Astros in Houston. Scattered three hits over six innings of scoreless ball throwing to a high-octane lineup. Dodgers counter with Hyun-Jin Ryu. L.A.’s best pitcher the last half of the season was touched for seven runs in 7 ¹/₃ innings over his two starts vs. Milwaukee in the NLCS. Fact he has never pitched at Fenway leads us to believe this may not be the night to turn it around. Play 20 units on the Red Sox.

Red Sox doubled up the Dodgers 8-4. Both Chris Sale (three runs) and Clayton Kershaw (five runs) were done after four innings. Eduardo Nunez’s three-run homer put the game away. W has us at -765 garciaparras.