The Atlanta Braves weren’t supposed to be here but they are and this means they could win it all. To do that they need to play ball the way did at the beginning of the year when they were never out of a game and key players were playing like . . . well, key players.
Playing that well gave pitchers some slack, but as the season wore on and the lineup cooled down that slack disappeared.
The Braves won 17 games in both May and August, and 16 games in September yet they hardly entered the NLDS on a roll.