This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Did you enjoy the sports equinox? I’m in New York for the week, so I watched last night’s World Series game at a NYC bar surrounded by coworkers with allegiances to both the Dodgers and Blue Jays.

Standing in their way: The defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has pitched consecutive complete games, including a Game 2 conquest of Blue Jays ace Kevin Gausman. They’ll run that matchup back at Rogers ...

The Wink Wildcats defeated the Eldorado Eagles 47-8 to claim the district title. Wink now improves to 7-2 on the season. Next week, the Wildcats will close out the regular season at home against Van Horn.