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At the time, her colleagues paid tribute to an actor who never fluffed a line.

The expected position of CNN in all this is center, allegedly – and certainly King and Jake Tapper did their straitlaced best to lead us into an obviously unexpected turn of events, greased by terms like “slippage” and fluffed by interrupting gongs heralding “too close to call” non-alerts.

Smith himself had two fluffed drop-goal attempts, both uglier shanks than Ford’s effort.

Yankees starter Gerrit Cole was flawless for four innings, but the Dodgers rallied after Judge fluffed a routine catch in centre field in the fifth, loading the bases with no outs before Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Hernandez all drove in runs to make it 5-5.

Back came the Dodgers, with two men on base and the script surely written for an Ohtani walk-off - but after he fluffed his lines, Freeman put the seal on a memorable game.