This evening, the Cardinals will play a one-game, winner-take-all (actually, winner-take-all is probably overstating things; more like winner-just-doesn’t-have-to-go-home-yet), playoff series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Is a single game also a series? I mean, it is, if the one game is all there is, I suppose, but it doesn’t feel right calling a single game a series, does it? Hmm.
The Cards and Dodgers will meet in the playoffs. Two historic franchises, in many ways the signature franchises of the National League, facing off once again to determine who moves on. The winner will head off to San Francisco to face the shocking Giants, while the loser will head off into the offseason.