Hill’s journey comes full circle with WS start

Fifteen months after finding himself out of a Major League job and donning a Long Island Ducks uniform, decision time came for Rich Hill. It was early last December and interest had flowed in for a then 36-year-old free-agent lefty who had seemingly resurrected his career when given yet another chance. The Dodgers, with whom he had finished the 2016 season, were interested. So, too, were the Yankees and Astros. Contractual talks with Houston, Hill recalled, “got pretty deep,” but the draw to return to Los Angeles was too strong to ignore.