Entertainment Last Night: The World Series bumped up against the Republican debate last night in an evening of pitches, hits, strikes, attacks, and misses.

Neither changes the fate of the world, so, in baseball, the Kansas City Royals routed the New York Mets 7-1 in drizzling rain to take a 2-0 lead in the World Series. Kansas City pitcher Johnny Cueto threw a two-hit complete game while the Royals hitters were relentless. Game three is in New York tomorrow night.

In America’s other pastime, Republican presidential candidates duked it out in Boulder, Colo. Trying to make a mark, Jeb Bush attacked his old friend, Sen. Marco Rubio, for being an absentee senator. “Marco, when you signed up for this, this was a six-year term — you should be showing up to work,” Bush said. “I mean, literally, the Senate, what is it, like a French workweek? You get like three days where you have to show up?”

Rubio snapped back, “The only reason you’re doing it now is because we’re running for the same position and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you,” Mr. Rubio said. It’s the only reason anyone is doing this.

Kasich opened up by ripping into Ben Carson’s tax proposals and Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations, saying voters shouldn’t elect “somebody who doesn’t know how to do the job.” Kasich said, “You don’t just make promises like this. Why don’t we just give a chicken in every pot?” He said, “Folks, we’ve got to wake up.”

Some of the candidates complained about the trivial nature of questions coming from the CNBC panel. New Jersey’s Chris Christie finally blurted out, “We have ninety trillion dollars in debt; we have people out of work; we have Isis and al Qaeda attacking us and we’re talking about fantasy football?!”

Mr. Speaker: Wisconsin’s Paul Ryan is set to take over today as Speaker of the House after he was essentially drafted into the job. Ryan said, “We’re going to move forward. We’re going to unify.”

Poll-itics: In a serious reversal for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders now leads her 41 percent to 40 in the latest Quinnipiac University poll of Democratic voters in Iowa. The numbers were within the margin of error, but it still means that Iowa Democrats are taking a serious look at Bernie, who’s been thumping away about economic inequality, college affordability, healthcare, and campaign finance reform.

Two Child: China announced today that it is ending its 35-year “one-child” policy in which Chinese couples were allowed to have only one baby. With the general population getting older, the government was under pressure to raise the limit to two children. China has a population of 1.35 billion people.

Nation: The South Carolina sheriff’s deputy who hauled an uncooperative high school girl out of her seat and wrestled her to a classroom floor has been fired. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said that after he saw video of the incident he wanted to throw up. While saying the girl’s disruption of class caused the incident, Lott stipulated that “There’s no justification for some of his actions.”

A lawyer for now former deputy Ben Fields said, “We believe that Mr. Fields’ actions were carried out professionally and that he was performing his job duties within the legal threshold.”

The incident puts the spotlight on the cops in schools who work under the Orwellian title of “resource officers.” Some recent incidents like this have raised questions about why cops are dealing with non-criminal classroom misbehavior.

The Eastern Front: A 200-foot blimp used for detecting incoming missiles broke its tether yesterday over the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland and drifted over the Pennsylvania countryside where it eventually crashed. Hard-nosed newsies are asking how the blimp escaped, but not why a government that knows when you call your mother is using World War I technology to protect American airspace.

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