The Marlins, they of the 18 positive COVID-19 tests, a team that looked like it might derail the MLB season before it barely got started, and whose patchwork roster led manager Don Mattingly to say, “Some of the guys I’ve never met before.” That’s who the Braves will be facing as the National League Division Series gets underway Tuesday, an opponent whose very inclusion in this round given where they started screams “2020” more than anything about this wild, wacky postseason.
Oh, and it’s all happening in Houston.
“It is what it is, this is what we got,” Freddie Freeman said.