Hondo had the good splitter working for him Saturday when he hit with the Marlins and missed with the Braves to lower the deficit to 1,335 pagliaronis.

Sunday: Mr. Aitch expects Archer’s arrow to continue to point upward — 10 units on the Rays to stifle the Sawx.

PBS has put “Finding Your Roots” on hiatus because of an episode in which producers acceded to Ben Affleck’s demand to exclude that he was a descendant of a slave owner. Clearly, Master Ben shouldn’t have treated Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the other producers like he owned them. … It was an interesting week for the Anthony family with LaLa going full frontal on Starz and Carmelo getting back-doored by Phil Jackson with the Porzingis pick. … Congratulations to Andrew Cuomo for setting a speed record for getting from Albany to Malone, N.Y., on Friday to glom onto the credit for eradicating escapee Richard Matt.