MLB

Hondo’s alive with five

Tanaka and the Yanks were money Tuesday night, but Hondo still managed to tumble deeper into the abyss when the Royals shelled Sure As Shootin’ Scherzer to put the deficit at 1,555 morgans.

Wednesday night: Mr. Aitch, surrendering to desperation, has selected a handful of possibly viable investment opportunities — 10 units apiece on the Reds, Dodgers, Giants, Yankees and Mariners.


Alex Trebek last week set the record for most game-show episodes hosted with 6,829. That also gives him the record for most deadly dull contestant interviews with 20,487. Congrats, Alex! … Hillary Clinton’s book, “Hard Choices,” reportedly is tanking. Evidently, not buying the book is an easy choice for consumers, who find nothing compelling about The Portly Pantsuit’s 656-page look back at a four-year tenure as Secretary of State in which her accomplishments totaled zero. … One question for Obama about the long-overdue arrest of a suspect in the Benghazi murders who reportedly had been hiding in plain sight since the attack: What took ya?