National League Division Series

By Matt Smith

The Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks are going to play for the rights to go to the World Series. I repeat; one of these two teams is going to play in the Fall Classic.
How? Why?
The Diamondbacks were outscored by 20 runs this season, yet found a way to win 90 games and took the National League’s best record into their National League Division Series with the Cubs.
At least, I think they played the Cubs. Did that series even take place?
I thought it was supposed to start on Wednesday, but I don’t remember hearing about it.
In all seriousness, the series was a joke. The Cubs scored six runs in the three-game sweep and four of those runs came in a game two loss.
I’m not going to pretend to know how the Diamondbacks are good. I mean for the love of god, they have Mark Reynolds and Jeff Salazar in their lineup. This can’t go on any longer, or can it?
Well, they are playing the Colorado which has never been to the LCS and hasn’t had a winning season since going 82-80 in 2000.
The scary thing is that I have to imagine that the Rockies are the favorite. They won 14 out of 15 just to get into the playoffs and then just kept steamrolling through the LDS, sweeping a Phillies team that was nearly as hot.
The Phils won 13 out of 17 to end the year, snatching the NL East from the Mets, but looked inept against Colorado. They hit .274 as a team in the regular season but scored just eight runs in three games against Colorado as five of them came in game two.
The Phils had their hearts ripped out in the fourth inning of game two, leading 3-2 and threatening to get back into the series when Kazuo Matsui (a Mets castoff) launched a 900-foot grand slam off Kyle Lohse (because that’s what he does, allows home runs that don’t land) and the Rox never looked back.
So now, by default, one of these two teams will be in the World Series as unimaginable as that is. Whichever team it is better soak it in as soon as they get there, because it will probably only last four games after the American League champs pounds them into the ground.