When the Atlanta Braves walked into the 2023 postseason, they were bringing with them the best record in Major League Baseball, accounting for 104 wins and 58 losses. With that came an array of what seemed like every conceivable offensive record in baseball, either for a single season or in history, that was broken either individually or collectively, sometimes multiple times. However, the Braves were put out in four games in the NLDS against the Philadelphia Phillies, and none of that mattered after that.
The loss in the NLDS was the second in as many years, to the Phillies no less, where the Braves, after only winning 88 games and a division title and eventually a World Series title back in 2021, failed to live up to expectations after becoming 100-plus game winners the last two seasons.