Chicago Cubs reliever Mitch Williams entered Game 3 of the National League Championship Series having not pitched in seven days -- the longest he has gone without action all season. If he does pitch at Candlestick Park this weekend and isn't sharp, Manager Don Zimmer will be second-guessed from here to opening day for not getting Williams in for an inning in Chicago. "I'm antsy," Williams said. "I want to pitch, but everyone does in this series. Before it's all said and done, I'll get a chance." Williams, who led NL pitchers with 76 appearances and was second with 36 saves, hasn't pitched since blowing a save in St. Louis last weekend. He discounted the possibility that the layoff might affect his sharpness, saying: "The last two nights I threw in the bullpen in Chicago and felt outstanding. Really, I think the layoff could help. If you can't get a little stronger with a rest at this time of year, you may have a problem." He had a 1.93 ERA and 22 saves in 41 appearances before the all-star break and a 3.86 ERA with 14 saves in 35 appearances after the break. "I don't think fatigue had anything to do with it," he said. "I just wasn't making good pitches in the right situations." Changeable Weather Cubs coach Joe Altobelli, who managed the Giants in the mid-70s, said a lot of people may be surprised by the Candlestick weather. "I was always told that October and November were the best months," he said. "They told me football weather was outstanding and that July was the coldest month. This is a nice warm day, but it can change in a hurry." . . . Giants pitcher Dave Dravecky has received thousands of letters and gifts during his remarkable comeback from cancer surgery that ended with a broken bone while pitching in Montreal in August. One of the strangest, though, came from a prisoner at San Quentin. "He offered to give me his humerus bone," Dravecky said. "He said he would give his up so that I could get on the mound again." Dravecky declined the offer, hoping to recover enough to be back in action in spring training. Elvis No Help NBC Sports broadcaster Bob Costas has become a story in the American League Championship Series, a situation he said he was "afraid" of before the playoffs began. It started Tuesday night in Oakland, when Athletics relief ace Dennis Eckersley entered Game 1 at the start of the ninth inning with a 7-3 lead. Given the circumstances, Costas cracked that you had to believe Elvis had a better chance of coming back than the Blue Jays did. That apparently did not sit well with Toronto fans, who, in the wake of the Blue Jays' loss in Game 2, twisted Costas's comment into meaning that he was biased against the Blue Jays and believed they had very little chance of coming back to win the series. Friday night's crowd of 50,268 for Game 3 unloaded. Some fans wore Costas masks that had been distributed by a local radio station. Derogatory banners were everywhere. When Costas and partner Tony Kubek were welcomed on the SkyDome's enormous, center field replay screen, the crowd booed lustily. Then Costas himself appeared on the screen. As the booing grew to a roar, he acknowledged his tormentors and egged them on by waving his arms. Saturday morning's newspapers had a field day with the episode. The Toronto Star ran a front-page headline that read: "Jays alive, Elvis too, before record crowd." The Toronto Sun ran a two-page, color spread with photographs and lots of fan comments. "I'm trying to react to this as good-naturedly as possible," Costas said before Saturday's game, "and I am getting a kick out of it. But I'm not the one that's projected myself into this situation. . . . The thing that I'm afraid of is this: That through no fault of my own, I become a story in the series. I'm here to report the series. As much as possible, I tried to ignore it on the game {broadcast} last night. Now, we may make a little joke about today, but I don't want it to become a big deal. . . . "This is like a wrestling scenario. I said that with Eckersley in with a commanding lead, given his track record, that in that one game -- and I said it jokingly -- you'd have to believe that Elvis has a better chance of coming back. I certainly wasn't referring to the series itself." What seemed to bother him most was the accusation of bias. "I think that probably two-thirds of the people are doing it {booing} good-naturedly," he said. "It's like booing Snidely Whiplash; they don't really believe. I think the other third that does believe it, obviously, that's a function of their bias and their paranoia -- not my bias." But he added: "It's predictable. Every year, no matter who does it, in every playoff series, every World Series, the announcers are accused of bias. And they're never accused of bias by someone in Timbuktu. They are only accused of bias by people in the competing cities. And I guarantee you this: If Toronto were to win three games here, or two out of three, there will be some people back in the Bay Area who will be convinced that Tony and I are biased against the A's." . . . Kathy Henke was already seven hours into labor when husband Tom, ace of the Toronto Blue Jays' bullpen, came on in the ninth inning of Game 3 of the ALCS Friday night. She watched, pleased but dazed, as he retired three batters to help the Blue Jays wrap up a 7-3 victory. The first batter lined out, the second struck out and the third grounded out. But she doesn't remember it quite that way. "We were winning 7-3," she said Saturday after giving birth to a girl. "He struck one out, and then the last two popped out, I think. "Well, I'm not sure about that. I was pretty tired by then." Nine hours after the victory she gave birth to 9-pound 8-ounce Linsay and called her husband, who'd been unaware of the event. "I could have called him yesterday before the game, but I didn't want to worry him," she said. "I'm about a week and a half early." The Henkes, who live in the small town of Taos near Jefferson City in central Missouri during the offseason, haven't seen each other since Aug. 28, when Kathy Henke returned home for the start of the school year. The couple has three other children.