The “easy” decision for the Atlanta Braves is about Sunday. Mike Soroka gets the ball to start this game in the den of the Cardinals – Busch Stadium, St. Louis.
It’s after that where things get complicated quickly, and there’s no good way to script it at this point.
At 1 game apiece, this National League Divisional Series is effectively down to a 2-out-of-3 affair now. As such, it’s pretty redundant to say that Sunday or Monday or Wednesday is a ‘critical’ game… they all are now for both teams.
The Braves managed to survive the disaster scenario where they could have been behind 0-2 coming into today’s game, but that Friday night game merely got the Cardinals’ attention.