MLB Notebook: Blue Jays send fans home happy

Over the span of three days during the dog days of the 1972 season, the two eventual pennant winners of that year — the Cincinnati Reds and the Oakland Athletics — got tangled up in a pair of marathon contests. No season had been able to quite match up to that ’72 campaign when it came to squeezing two into such a short window, until the Angels and Blue Jays produced 19-inning victories in back-to-back days this past weekend.