October 9, 2015
All in all, it was not a dramatic season in the National League. In all actuality, it was a rather predictable one by the middle point in the year. The Central division had the runaway top three teams in the league, as the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs spent the summer in their own V.I.P. section, fighting over postseason positioning.
Meanwhile, the eastern and western outposts of the league were mostly exclusive battles between a pair of teams. The New York Mets pulled the heist of the summer by overcoming everybody’s on-paper champion coming into the year, the Washington Nationals.