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Yet the eight series, fortunately, did not endanger the league’s best teams and provided only mild surprises and middling revelations, such as the entirety of the National League Central’s inability to hit the baseball.

So we meander into the more familiar and meritorious Division Series, eight teams each with a legitimate stake to reach the finals and perhaps claim a championship. Running this gauntlet should put to rest any notions of an asterisk for the team left standing.

Collectively, they may be Sisyphus, but Sisyphus never had a pair of MVPs helping him push that boulder up the hill. Fool us 32 times, shame on us, but c’mon, can you honestly place another team ahead of the Dodgers as they bid for their first title since 1988?

The bats looked a little tight in a two-game sweep of Milwaukee, save for Mookie Betts, who socked three doubles and is playing with the security of a man with a $365 million contract and a World Series ring already in tow. He seems unstoppable, and slowly, the other bats and well-placed platoon pieces will fall in place.