Both the American and National Leagues are down to their final two teams after the Phillies clinched their spot on Thursday night by beating the Braves in four games.
Atlanta joins the Dodgers and the Orioles as teams who earned a 2023 first-round bye thanks to their regular season records now on the couch after they lost their respective divisional series’ to Wild Card teams.
Questions about the long layoff for higher seeded teams have been floated across the baseball sphere as baseball’s three best regular season teams won’t get to compete for the World Series this season.