Dodgers Win Eliminates Cardinals From Playoff Contention
By James Neveau ••
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Thanks to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ win over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday afternoon, the St. Louis Cardinals have officially been eliminated from postseason contention.
The Cardinals, who entered the day behind the Dodgers by two games in the National League Wild Card race, did beat the Chicago Cubs to keep their fading hopes alive, but it wasn’t enough as the Dodgers eliminated St. Louis and punched its ticket into the playoffs.
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Mientras que en el Progressive Field la joven plantilla de los oseznos era todo júbilo.
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Jake Arrieta threw a complete game shutout, and Kyle Schwarber launched a home run into the river in Pittsburgh to defeat the Pirates in the National Leauge Wild Card Game.
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The Cubs won their first playoff series in 12 years when they outslugged the St. Louis Cardinals in a 3-1 series win. Kyle Schwarber hit another prodigious blast, this one landing on the top of the right field video board.
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The Cubs’ sizzling bats went silent as Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, and the rest of the Mets held them in check in a four-game sweep.
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The Giants were poised to tie the series at 2-2 in Game 4, but the Cubs had other ideas, scoring four runs in the top of the ninth inning to stun the Giants and advance to the NLCS for the second straight year.
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The Cubs were down 2-1 in the series and had been shutout in back-to-back games, but all of the sudden, the team’s bats came to life in Game 4 and never stopped, as the Cubs racked up 23 runs in the final three games of the series to finish off the Dodgers and punch their ticket to the World Series for the first time since 1945.
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Down 3-1 in the series, the Cubs had their backs against the wall, but the heroes of October had one more trick up their sleeves, as Kyle Schwarber roared back, Jon Lester pitched a stellar relief gem in Game 7, and Ben Zobrist won MVP honors in an epic series win over the Cleveland Indians that ended the team’s 108 year championship drought.
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The Cubs advanced to the NLCS for the third straight year with a five-game series win over the Washington Nationals, and the final game was downright crazy, as the nearly five-hour game resulted in 17 runs, 23 hits, and two critical Nationals errors in a 9-8 Cubs victory.
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The Dodgers, the best team in the National League during the regular season, made sure to make quick work of the Cubs, avenging their 2016 defeat in a five-game series victory.
With the win, the Dodgers trimmed their deficit in the National League West to just one-half game, with the Rockies set to take on the Washington Nationals on Saturday evening.
The Cubs and Cardinals will play one final game on Sunday, with Chicago still in a position to win the National League Central. A win Sunday and a Brewers loss to the Detroit Tigers on either Saturday or Sunday would wrap up the division for Chicago.
