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the two best teams in the National League eliminatedto finish off a sweep. Playoff baseball is always unpredictable, but this year’s postseason feels even more uncertain.They were during the regular season, winning the fourth-most games in MLB history, but they just happened to lose three out of four to another good team at the wrong time. The same goes forover the final two months of the season. Now that they’ve both been eliminated, the top four teams in the NL are all out of contention.
Both are talented teams that had good regular seasons and are getting hot at the right time. As Emma Baccellieri wroteYes, the playoffs feel inherently chaotic by virtue of their small sample size, with results that can occasionally seem capricious or fickle or simply nonsensical. Whenever a third-place team like the Phillies defeats a 101-win, best-in-division reigning champion like the Braves, there are bound to be comments about randomness and chance.
The success of the underdogs is worth examining, though. It isn’t unusual for an inferior team to prevail in the postseason, even in the seven-game LCS. The 88-win Braves beat the 106-win Dodgers in the NLCS last year, after all. But to have two top teams go down early is noteworthy, especially considering this is the first year of the new postseason format that “rewards” the top teams with a bye to the LDSSure, the Padres and Phillies had to survive a virtual toss-up of a three-game series just to get to the NLDS, but. Were the teams that earned byes rested or rusty? As a team, the Braves batted .180/.250/.344 in their series. The Yankees have been just as bad, batting .177/.252/.363 in their series against Cleveland.
It feels silly to complain, though, because the games have been so good. Who cares whether the best regular-season teams are advancing?
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