HOUSTON—On a night designed to celebrate a city desperately searching for a reason to smile again, baseball took a back seat Friday, overshadowed by a race-related controversy that stained Game 3 of the World Series. At his locker afterward, Gurriel apologized and said he didn’t mean to offend Darvish, the son of an Iranian father and Japanese mother. He played in Japan in 2014 and said he learned the derogatory nature of the word from that experience. Watching a World Series game at home for the first time since 2005, the raucous crowd of 43,282 spent the entire time ready to burst. These Astros will look to put a stranglehold on the series in Saturday’s Game 4—potentially with somebody other than Gurriel manning first base.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 28, 2017 08:26 UTC