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The Milwaukee Brewers knocked off the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night, moving into a first place tie with the Chicago Cubs atop the National League Central standings.
Christian Yelich blasted two home runs in the game, including a seventh inning shot that gave the Brewers the lead. Erik Kratz also drove in a pair of runs, and the Brewers' bullpen held on for the victory.
With the win, the Cubs and Brewers will enter the season's final day in a deadlock for the division lead. If both teams finish tied at the end of the season, they will play in a one-game playoff at Wrigley Field on Monday afternoon. The winner of that game would move on to the National League Division Series, while the loser would host the National League Wild Card Game on Tuesday night.
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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.
