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MLB playoffs 2023: After another Braves upset, is there a method to the Philadelphia Phillies’ October madness?

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Postseason baseball, as Nick Castellanos will tell you, is just different. Last year, as the Philadelphia Phillies squeaked into the expanded playoff field and stormed all the way to the World Series, the bat-first right fielder was disarmingly forthright in explaining his repeated defensive heroics, saying the postseason locked him in, whereas his focus could often wander across the dog days of 162 games.