If baseball is a game of inches, postseason baseball is a game of millimeters. Add an intradivisional matchup to that equation and it’s more like a hair’s width. Make it a rivalry as bitter as Phillies vs. Mets and you’d better pull out your microscope.
It’s going to be brutal for both fanbases and, above all, unpredictable. But these teams have seen each other plenty before, which means history can help us forecast which matchups could play a large part, one way or another, in deciding who punches their ticket to the NLCS. Here are some candidates.
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