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Outside The Confines: The calm before the storm

Well, the baseball gods have spoken, and following a tense weekend matchup that determined the NL champions, we now know who our 2021 World Series contenders will be. The Los Angeles Dodgers put up a good fight, and had the better season record, but it was simply not to be as the Atlanta Braves took the series in game six, sending last year’s champions home. And in the AL, it was everyone’s favorite villains, the Houston Astros, who managed to best a club that hit three grand slams in one postseason, as the Boston Red Sox went packing.