For three straight games in the National League Championship Series, the stared down elimination. Each time, they rose to the challenge.
On Sunday night in Game 7, they completed the series comeback with a taut 4-3 win over —punctuated by a go-ahead Cody Bellinger homer in the seventh—and punched their ticket to the World Series.
It wasn't easy. Atlanta went up 2-0 in the series, and then claimed a commanding 3-1 edge. The NL East champs had Los Angeles on the ropes. Atlanta led 2-0 going into the bottom of the third in Game 7 and carried a 3-2 lead into the bottom of the sixth.