Has any player ever hit three or more home runs in a postseason game before?

While no one has matched the regular-season record of four in a game, there have been a few players who have hit three.

Famously, Reggie Jackson hit three home runs on only three pitches for the Yankees in the clinching sixth game of the 1977 World Series.

That tied the World Series record of Babe Ruth, who had three homers in a game twice — in 1926 and 1928.

At the League Championship Series level, it has occurred three times: Pittsburgh's Bob Robertson in 1971, the Angels' Adam Kennedy in 2002 and Kansas City's George Brett in 1978.

Brett's effort came in a losing effort for both the series, which the Royals lost 3-1 to New York, and the game, which the Yankees won 6-5.

All of Brett's home runs were solo shots against Catfish Hunter. After losing that game when the Yankees scored two runs in the eighth, the Royals were closed out in the series the next night 2-1.

Have any managers won the World Series in both leagues?

Two managers have done it in history, with the possibility of another one joining that group this season.

Sparky Anderson managed the National League's Cincinnati Reds to World Series titles in 1975 and 1976.

He became the first to win in both leagues in 1984 when his Detroit Tigers defeated the San Diego Padres in five games.

Coincidentally, the Padres manager, Dick Williams, would have been the first to win in both leagues if San Diego had won. Williams skippered the Oakland Athletics to a championship in 1972 and 1973.

In 2006, a similar circumstance occurred when Tony La Russa's Cardinals met Jim Leyland's Tigers.

Each had won the Series before — La Russa with the 1989 Athletics and Leyland with the 1997 Marlins — and each was now in a different league than before.

La Russa won that battle four games to one.

If Joe Torre's Dodgers were to win this season, he'd join that list, having won four titles with the Yankees previously.

Two other managers, Bill McKechnie and Bucky Harris, have won titles with two franchises, but both were in the same league as the previous winner.

McKechnie managed the 1925 Pirates and the 1940 Reds, while Harris guided the 1924 Senators and 1947 Yankees.

—Joshua Wood