There will be no sweeps in the National League Division Series, but what else did we learn about the MLB playoffs on Wednesday?
Our MLB insiders Bob NIghtengale and Steve Gardner debate if the San Diego Padres can pull off the massive upset and take down the Dodgers in the NLDS.There will be no sweeps in the National League. No dethroned champs, no coronated 111-win teams, just a long and harrowing weekend of baseball ahead.
We’re closing in on a quarter-century without a team winning back-to-back World Series titles. That dream is still alive for the Atlanta Braves.with the Philadelphia Phillies at 1-1, the enormity of the task is already evident. Over two games, the Phillies have given them more than they’d like to handle and in doing so drove home a point that repeating will only get more difficult.Expanded playoffs mean more teams. More teams mean more chances for a group to find its footing, as the Phillies did in securing a playoff spot at year’s end and sweeping St. Louis to start the playoffs. Heck, in another year, one in which the Braves don’t win 101 games, capturing their division might have forced them to win two more games.
It is Strider who will have to win one game in hostile Philadelphia to either clinch the series or keep Atlanta alive; manager Brian Snitker did not say if veteran Charlie Morton or someone else will start Game 3.
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