There was a lot of good baseball this week. Elite pitching performances. One-run contests. Stars getting big hits in big moments.
Thursday night’s Game 3 — New York Mets 4, Milwaukee Brewers 2 — was a true postseason epic. Back-to-back Brewers homers in the seventh inning. Pete Alonso going deep in the ninth to keep his Mets career going a little longer. Then Francisco Lindor sprinting for a double play to end it.
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October is all about winner-take-all, and the Wild Card round had only one series that went the distance. It didn’t disappoint. The other three series were sweeps. Which brings us to our first takeaway from the wild-card round…
Game 1
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