Discover the best Halloween experiences in Boston and Salem, including ghost tours, witch-trial history, Hocus Pocuslocations, haunted trolley rides and the high-speed Salem ferry.

Carl Yastrzemski’s grandson, Mike Yastrzemski, hit the three-run homer for Atlanta, defeating Houston, and that knocked the Red Sox to October — nearly sixty years after Yaz led the 1967 “Impossible Dream” team. That’s serious Boston baseball juju.

Nine pitches. Nine strikes. Three strikeouts. Red Sox rookie Payton Tolle threw an immaculate first inning at Fenway Park, becoming the first Boston pitcher to accomplish the feat to open a game since Pedro Martínez in 2002.

Kendall Square became one of the world’s great biotech centers, but for years it lacked the cultural life of a real neighborhood. The Platform, a new performing arts center in Cambridge, aims to change that with music, dance, theater, food and community gathering spaces.