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Originally Posted by Brad K
What is the significance of four or five games versus 162 games?
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If Atlanta can’t win more than one game in four, rested, rotation set up, with home-field advantage, with the season on the line, they don’t belong in the NLCS, regardless of a gaudy regular season record. Otherwise we’d just hand them the crown, and tell the other teams to go home. Where’s the fun in that?
And I admit, if the Phillies poop the bed against the lowly D-backs, they don’t deserve to be there, either. It hurts, but that’s the reality of the post-season. What makes it special. It’s a long slog; but the best teams won’t fall apart in 11-22 games, if they were really that good in 162.