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Major League Baseball's 2024 season is in its penultimate week with playoff spots very much up for grabs. Things are heating up in the wild-card races in both leagues, with a handful of teams ...
Ohtani delivered an absolutely historic performance to seal the first 50-50 season in MLB history. The Dodgers have not yet secured the NL West division title or their postseason seed.
The New Jersey Cardinals put together a 43–32 regular-season mark, and then defeated the Jamestown Jammers, 2 games to 1, and the Auburn Astros, 2 games to 0, to win the league title. The achievement was culminated when Torre approached Frankford township mayor Carol Ann Kristensen to change the club's official address to "94 Championship Place".
The Cardinals attempted to tie the series with a late rally in Game 4, but Giants closer Robb Nen struck out Albert Pujols and J.D. Drew to put the Giants up 3–1 in the series. Tim Worrell pitched a complete game in Game 5 as the Giants won in the bottom of the ninth, 2–1, to clinch the pennant.
The Dodgers returned to the postseason in 1985, but fell in six games to the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS. They would win their next pennant in 1988 over the New York Mets in seven games. The Dodgers and Phillies would face off again in the 2008 and 2009 NLCS, with both series being won by the Phillies.
The Cardinals upset the heavily favored Phillies in five games to return to the NLCS for the first time since 2006. Both teams split the first two games at Citizens Bank Park - the Phillies prevailed in an offensive duel in Game 1, while in Game 2, the Cardinals overcame a 4–0 lead to win by one run.
The Cardinals overcame a 2–0 series deficit to win the series in six games and advance to the World Series for the second time in five years. The Dodgers took Game 1 as Fernando Valenzuela out-dueled the Cardinals' John Tudor , and in Game 2, Orel Hershiser pitched a complete game as the Dodgers blew out the Cardinals to take a 2–0 series ...
The 2004 National League Division Series (NLDS), the opening round of the 2004 National League playoffs, began on Tuesday, October 5, and ended on Monday, October 11, with the champions of the three NL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series.