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Division Series Predictions: Expert Picks for ALDS and NLDS

Which two teams from each league will be advancing to the Championship Series? Our MLB writers make their picks.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 10, 2022

Phillies’ Brandon Marsh returns home for the playoffs, just as his late father dreamed

ATLANTA — Phillies center fielder Brandon Marsh grew up in Buford, Ga., about an hour north of Turner Field. He was raised on Andruw Jones and Chipper Jones and John Smoltz, and come October, he expected to see his team in the playoffs.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Oct 10, 2022

David Murphy: Phillies face long odds in NLDS, but four key stats show how they can beat the Braves

ATLANTA — The Braves are not the Cardinals. If the uniforms didn’t give it away, just look at the matchups. There’s a reason the Phillies will enter Game 1 of the National League Division Series as heavy underdogs to reach their first National League Championship Series since that brutal loss…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Oct 10, 2022

David Murphy: Bring on the Braves: Phillies show they have World Series stuff

ST. LOUIS — All of them were there except one. The goggles were donned and the music was on and the corks were popping in a 12-gun salute. The postseason's biggest wild cards were gathered in the back of the visitor's clubhouse waiting for the word go. A few minutes…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Oct 9, 2022

A Near Perfect Day of Baseball Games

For baseball fans without any vested interests in the eight teams playing this weekend, yesterday was just about the perfect day of games. The four games delivered just the right combination of tension and action—the formula for any good baseball game—by showcasing the variety of genres only our ...

Sports Illustrated · Oct 9, 2022

Cardinals’ Seemingly Storybook Season Gets an Unhappy Ending

Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina did their part in Game 2 against the Phillies, but the rest of St. Louis’s bats stayed quiet, sending the pair off into the sunset.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 9, 2022

Pujols, Molina Get Hits in Final At-Bats to End Careers in Cardinals Loss

The two iconic hitters ended their careers on nice individual notes despite St. Louis’s season-ending loss.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 9, 2022

Phillies sweep Cardinals behind Aaron Nola; Braves up next in NLDS

ST. LOUIS — About three minutes before the first pitch of Game 1 of the National League wild-card series on Friday, Phillies broadcaster Scott Franzke leaned into his microphone and said it best, as he often does.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Oct 9, 2022

End of an era: Phillies shut out, sweep Cardinals and end last run for Molina and Pujols

ST. LOUIS — When the end came, with so little fanfare and all of the fireworks still in their casings waiting for another year or another event, Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols watched from the dugout, having done all they could against Philadelphia to extend their careers one more night.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 9, 2022

A Series of Unfortunate Decisions

The Cardinals absolutely crumbled in the ninth inning yesterday. There’s no other way to explain how they went from up two with two outs to go for a win, to down four and having to bat in the bottom of the ninth. Closer Ryan Helsley, who was called upon to…

Sports Illustrated · Oct 8, 2022