Once upon a time there was a major league baseball team.
In contention in September, but not yet quite ahead in its playoff race, this team ran though the last couple of weeks of the season, defeating everyone in sight, even through the beginnings of the postseason, before coming up short of winning the ultimate prize.
You think I’m talking about the 2018 Milwaukee Brewers, don’t you. Actually, the description above applies to the 2007 Colorado Rockies, who won 14 of their last 15 regular-season games, swept the Phillies in a division series and swept the Diamondbacks in the NLCS before being swept by the Red Sox in the World Series.