Dodgers? Giants? Does it matter? Well, not from an optimum matchup standpoint. Like, does it even matter what happens next for a Braves team that’s risen back to the National League Championship Series after losing two of its brightest young stars and a slugger who led the league in homers and RBI a year ago?
Does it even matter after it took Atlanta 109 games to get above .500, 119 games claim first place in the NL East and 158 games to make it stick and punch a return trip to the postseason?
A team that had the third-best preseason odds of winning the World Series now standing one series from a chance to do just that isn’t surprising.