It took a 17-game winning streak, the longest in the National League since 1951, for the St. Louis Cardinals to even have a chance to advance to the postseason.
On Sept. 7, before the winning streak started, their chances to make the playoffs were 2.8 percent. Yet on Tuesday, in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals clinched a postseason berth with a 6-2 victory.
“FanGraphs had us at like a negative 400 percent chance to make the playoffs,” Adam Wainwright said, “and we just proved everyone wrong. We’re going to try and keep doing that.