Numbers don’t lie.
Well, OK ... maybe you can bend them to fit your narrative, but Baseball-Reference’s Stathead and FanGraphs are the fuel to define a season in so many ways.
After that nine-game winning streak, Atlanta continues to sit atop the National League East, and while they’ve won just five of the last 14 since that run of Ws, they have a 73.9 percent chance of making the postseason. It’s leaps and bounds from where they were on June 16, when those playoff odds were at just 12 percent.
At the core of that run from third place to having spent the better part of a month atop the East, have been some eye-opening numbers.