Elephant Rumblings: Nationals jump out to 2-0 World Series lead

A’s Coverage:

• Matier: A’s offer deal to Oakland to shake loose movement on Coliseum site, new ballpark... ($)
• Van Niekerken: 1989 World Series photos found - Giants, A’s and a quake’s shake... ($)

Best of AN:

• Hall: Sean Doolittle saves a World Series game...

MLB News:

• Kaplan: Cubs to hire David Ross as new manager...
• Martino: Gerrit Cole to Yankees might be longshot - but expect them to try...
• Passan: MLB looking into longtime umpire Rob Drake’s tweet...
• Kaplan: Kris Bryant’s service time grievance to be heard this week...

Baseball Interest Stories:

• Lindbergh: The Astros Don’t Deserve a World Series of Distraction...
• Rosenthal: It’s time for Rob Manfred and MLB to impose harsh discipline on Brandon Taubman and the Astros... ($$$)
• Posnanski: Juan Soto is not the future, he’s the present — and he’s turned this Series into a whole new ballgame... ($$$)
• Edwards: Juan Soto Does the Impossible...
• Fink: Sean Doolittle’s Important Turnaround Evident in Game 1...
• McCullough: ‘At some point, Stephen just said, Enough’ - How freshman year at San Diego State reshaped the career of Stephen Strasburg... ($$$)

Today in Baseball History:

• 1908 — Baseball’s anthem, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, is introduced by singer Billy Murray. The songwriting team of Albert Von Tilzer (music) and Jack Norworth (words), who created the immortal tune, had never seen a game before composing the immortal number.
• 1972 — Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson dies of heart disease at age 53. Robinson had become the first black major league player of the 20th century with the 1947 Dodgers.

Best of Twitter:

• Baseball players are just like the rest of us...

• This is pretty incredible...

• A former A’s great with a really interesting story just released his new book...