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Division Series Predictions: Expert Picks for ALDS and NLDS

Which two teams from each league will be advancing to the Championship Series? Our MLB writers make their picks.

Sports Illustrated

Phillies’ Brandon Marsh returns home for the playoffs, just as his late father dreamed

ATLANTA — Phillies center fielder Brandon Marsh grew up in Buford, Ga., about an hour north of Turner Field. He was raised on Andruw Jones and Chipper Jones and John Smoltz, and come October, he expected to see his team in the playoffs.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

David Murphy: Phillies face long odds in NLDS, but four key stats show how they can beat the Braves

ATLANTA — The Braves are not the Cardinals. If the uniforms didn’t give it away, just look at the matchups. There’s a reason the Phillies will enter Game 1 of the National League Division Series as heavy underdogs to reach their first National League Championship Series since that brutal loss…

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Phillies Sign Manager Rob Thomson to Two-Year Contract Extension

The former bench coach led Philadelphia to its first playoff series victory in over a decade.

Sports Illustrated

Phillies remove interim tag, sign manager Rob Thomson to two-year deal

ATLANTA — Rob Thomson has a permanent job.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Joe Musgrove Cl-EAR-ly Wasn’t Cheating

You’ve gotta admit, Buck Showalter’s asking the umpires to rub Joe Musgrove’s ears was the perfect way for the Mets to go out. It was the combination of dysfunction, desperation and unintentional comedy that has defined this organization pretty much since its inception 60 years ago. At ...

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‘We are not losing this game’: How Bryce Harper’s mantra is setting a tone for the Phillies

ST. LOUIS — As Bryce Harper walked into the Phillies’ clubhouse at Busch Stadium on Saturday, he spotted Rhys Hoskins.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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David Murphy: Bring on the Braves: Phillies show they have World Series stuff

ST. LOUIS — All of them were there except one. The goggles were donned and the music was on and the corks were popping in a 12-gun salute. The postseason's biggest wild cards were gathered in the back of the visitor's clubhouse waiting for the word go. A few minutes…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

A Near Perfect Day of Baseball Games

For baseball fans without any vested interests in the eight teams playing this weekend, yesterday was just about the perfect day of games. The four games delivered just the right combination of tension and action—the formula for any good baseball game—by showcasing the variety of genres only our ...

Sports Illustrated

Cardinals’ Seemingly Storybook Season Gets an Unhappy Ending

Albert Pujols and Yadier Molina did their part in Game 2 against the Phillies, but the rest of St. Louis’s bats stayed quiet, sending the pair off into the sunset.

Sports Illustrated

Pujols, Molina Get Hits in Final At-Bats to End Careers in Cardinals Loss

The two iconic hitters ended their careers on nice individual notes despite St. Louis’s season-ending loss.

Sports Illustrated

Phillies sweep Cardinals behind Aaron Nola; Braves up next in NLDS

ST. LOUIS — About three minutes before the first pitch of Game 1 of the National League wild-card series on Friday, Phillies broadcaster Scott Franzke leaned into his microphone and said it best, as he often does.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

End of an era: Phillies shut out, sweep Cardinals and end last run for Molina and Pujols

ST. LOUIS — When the end came, with so little fanfare and all of the fireworks still in their casings waiting for another year or another event, Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols watched from the dugout, having done all they could against Philadelphia to extend their careers one more night.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A Series of Unfortunate Decisions

The Cardinals absolutely crumbled in the ninth inning yesterday. There’s no other way to explain how they went from up two with two outs to go for a win, to down four and having to bat in the bottom of the ninth. Closer Ryan Helsley, who was called upon to…

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Chicago Sun-Times

This baseball quiz is a sprint, not a marathon

Once the baseball playoffs begin, the old adage is turned upside down because it’s a race to the title

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ben Frederickson: Cardinals went from too optimistic on Ryan Helsley's finger, to too slow to react

ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals should have consulted a cynic.

Sports Illustrated

The Ninth Inning From Hell

The Cardinals were two outs from a Game 1 win when everything fell apart.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

An epic Game 1 win by the Phillies was postseason torment at its best

ST. LOUIS — Playoff baseball is like watching a loved one defuse a bomb. It is not something that you enjoy. It is something that you endure. Every pitch is a tick on a timer that is counting down to some unknown number, every swing a snip at a tangle…

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Phillies score six in ninth to beat Cardinals, 6-3, in Game 1 of wild-card series

ST. LOUIS — Jean Segura wasn’t even halfway down the first-base line when he leaped in the air, looking more like Mikhail Baryshnikov than the player who delivered a game-winning hit in the Phillies’ first playoff game in 11 years.

Sports Illustrated

Phillies Make MLB Postseason History With Stunning Ninth Inning

Philadelphia came away with an unbelievable win over the Cardinals to open their wild-card round series.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Cardinals drop first-ever postseason game with a two-run lead entering the ninth after collapse

Entering Friday's game, St. Louis was 93-0 when leading by two runs entering the ninth inning of a postseason contest.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Philadelphia Phillies vs. St. Louis Cardinals, live stream, TV channel, time, how to watch MLB Playoffs

The Philadelphia Phillies will meet the St. Louis Cardinals in the best-of-three NL Wild Card with Game 1 on Friday afternoon.

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | One Thing to Watch in Each Wild-Card Series

MLB’s expanded playoffs get underway on Friday with the four wild-card series.

Sports Illustrated

NL Wild-Card Series Picks for Mets-Padres and Cardinals-Phillies

Which teams will be moving on to the National League Division Series next week? Our MLB writers make their picks.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

How will the Phillies’ Zack Wheeler react to the playoff stage? His former coach knows.

ST. LOUIS — In bracing for his first career postseason start, Zack Wheeler recounted his most nerve-racking moments on a baseball field. He thought about the 2012 Futures Game in Kansas City and the 2021 All-Star Game in Denver. He remembered the pterodactyls churning in his stomach, the pounding in…

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