The long ball was in vogue across baseball on Monday, with the latest set of Division Series contests producing — among other things — a homer to lead off the first, another to turn a deficit into a lead in the eighth, one to offer a team’s only scoring in a win-or-get-knocked-out scenario, another to end a no-hit bid in the eighth inning, yet another to mark a birthday, and finally, one to end a game and stave off elimination.