The Brewers, who lost the opening series in each of their last five postseason appearances, showed why they were baseball’s top team this season. In the decisive NLDS Game 5, they belted three homers in combination with lights-out pitching to nip the Cubs.
With Toronto having not reached and won the World Series since 1993 and Seattle the only MLB team to have never appeared in one, the AL will be sending some fresh threads to the Fall Classic, one way or another. So, which way will this one go?
This year’s League Championship Series matchups are intriguing for a number of reasons. Among them: A test of the significance of starting rotation firepower in modern October baseball.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. posted a .529/.550/1.059 slash line with nine hits and nine RBIs in four ALDS games. We’ve got five key numbers that explain his red-hot start to the postseason.
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