A winner-take-all baseball game is about as exciting as it gets. When there are two teams that have to play a game and for one of them, it’ll all be over tomorrow, the stakes are ramped up. Every play looms large over the outcome, and in the later innings, if things are close, every at-bat is full of tension.
Both of the National League Division Series have reached this point. After playing four games, both Cardinals-Braves and Nationals-Dodgers are knotted at two games apiece. They settle it all tonight. Two seasons will end, two narratives snuffed out, while two continue on with a berth in the World Series on the line.