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Dodgers dominate division again<\/p>\n

Dodgers celebrate 12th division win in 13 years as elite pitching fuels their confidence heading into October.<\/p>\n

Sports Pulse<\/p>\n

Despite a loss, the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> clinched the National League’s final playoff berth<\/a> in the last game of the regular season and will face the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> in the NL wild card series<\/a> beginning Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati needed a win or a New York Mets<\/a> loss Sunday to secure its first playoff trip in a full season since 2013. The Reds took a 2-0 lead early against the Brewers on Sunday, but Milwaukee came back for a 4-2 victory at American Family Field.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for the Reds, they got some help.<\/p>\n

The Mets lost 4-0 against the Marlins in Miami, completing New York’s slow-motion collapse that began more than three months ago. The Mets had MLB’s best record at 45-24 on June 12 but fell off a cliff, going 38-55 the rest of the way including two seven-game losing streaks and an eight-game skid.<\/p>\n

New York had baseball’s largest opening day payroll in the first year of Juan Soto’s record 15-year, $765 million contract and faces a long winter after one of the most disappointing seasons in franchise history.<\/p>\n

A two-time World Series champion with the Boston Red Sox<\/a>, manager Terry Francona got the Reds to the playoffs in his first year with Cincinnati. The Reds’ most recent postseason trip was in the COVID-shortened 2020, sneaking in with a 31-29 record.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati’s NL wild card series at Dodger Stadium begins on Tuesday, Sept. 30 with first pitch set for 9:08 p.m. ET. The winner of the best-of-three set will face the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS beginning Saturday, Oct 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodgers dominate division again Dodgers celebrate 12th division win in 13 years as elite pitching fuels their confidence…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":263175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4231,591,2731,1281,20417,10595,5048,7824,52554,4140,2442,17745,1631,3693,4230,2502,46711,3685,380,1286,6375,4247,1266,1571,5382,942,635,405,403,1305,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,15746,450,950,5855,10596,31966,25225,62,1458,17744,6373,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,636],"class_list":{"0":"post-263174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-angeles","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-boston","12":"tag-boston-red-sox","13":"tag-brewers","14":"tag-cincinnati","15":"tag-cincinnati-reds","16":"tag-coronavirus","17":"tag-coronavirus-covid-19","18":"tag-covid-19","19":"tag-dodgers","20":"tag-francona","21":"tag-juan","22":"tag-juan-soto","23":"tag-los","24":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","25":"tag-marlins","26":"tag-mets","27":"tag-miami","28":"tag-miami-marlins","29":"tag-milwaukee","30":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","31":"tag-mlb","32":"tag-national","33":"tag-national-sports","34":"tag-neutral","35":"tag-new","36":"tag-new-york","37":"tag-new-york-city","38":"tag-new-york-mets","39":"tag-news","40":"tag-newyork","41":"tag-newyorkcity","42":"tag-ny","43":"tag-nyc","44":"tag-oh","45":"tag-overall","46":"tag-overall-neutral","47":"tag-red","48":"tag-reds","49":"tag-soto","50":"tag-sox","51":"tag-sports","52":"tag-sports-news","53":"tag-terry","54":"tag-terry-francona","55":"tag-united-states","56":"tag-united-states-of-america","57":"tag-unitedstates","58":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","59":"tag-us","60":"tag-usa","61":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}