Bill Burnett had a baseball game on the tube and a longtime friend by his side.

So what if his son was getting knocked out early on baseball’s biggest stage?

Burnett could do little but shake his head and laugh as his son, A.J., gave up six runs in two innings for the New York Yankees in an 8-6 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies in the fifth game of the World Series on Monday night.

In a World Series matchup that featured two Arkansans going head to head, someone had to lose. And sitting in the same one-story North Little Rock home where he raised his son, Bill Burnett found it hard to root against the eventual winning ...