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Starting Nine: The at times unlikely, impossible, improbable road to Braves’ fourth straight East title

Winning four consecutive championships in anything should automatically disqualify calling it improbable, impossible, or unlikely.

But is there really any other way to quantify it? For the fourth straight season, the Braves were spraying champagne and partying in the waterfall beyond center field to celebrate another National League East crown.

They did it improbably. They did it impossibly. They did it in unlikely fashion.

“Four in a row is hard,” Freddie Freeman said Thursday after Atlanta beat the Phillies 5-3 to clinch the division. “I can’t imagine those 1990s teams and how they did all that.