For the second year in a row, the Atlanta Braves are NL East champions. They earned their spot tonight with a 6-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants. While many pundits favored the Phillies, Nationals and Mets to take the division, the Braves took over first place on June 12th and only got stronger.
Ronald Acuna, Jr., Freddie Freeman and Josh Donaldson had 30 plus HR campaigns with Ozzie Albies approaching 25. Rookie Mike Soroka and sophomore Max Fried anchored a strarting rotation with resurgent Mike Foltynewicz and veterans Dallas Keuchel and Julio Teheran. Their bullpen is the three headed monster of Luke Jackson, Shane Greene and Mark Melancon.
The Braves advance to the NLDS where they will face the winner of the NL Central. This will most likely be the St. Louis Cardinals who have a 3 game lead over the Milwaukee Brewers with 8 regular season games remaining.
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