Is it weird that the Braves came into Monday as the only NL team with a division series spot locked up despite having the worst record of the league’s five postseason participants? Well, yeah, but them’s the breaks when baseball decides to baseball.
No one knows that better than the Cubs, who had to survive the do-or-die game in 2015 even though they’d battled to the third-best record in all of baseball that year. And they faced the Pirates, who had the second-best mark.
Given all they’ve gone through as a collective, both this season and those in the recent past, it’s no wonder they’re not worried about either Monday’s tiebreaker or the Wild Card that awaits if they lose.