The Cardinals were officially eliminated from the postseason yesterday. They were effectively eliminated before that, although there was always a chance. A one in a million chance, but a chance. They did not control their own destiny and needed help from other teams. A lot of help. If you include tomorrow’s games, they needed the flip of a coin that baseball games tend to be to go their way roughly 13 or 14 times out of 15 potential outcomes. They needed the Reds, Mets, and Diamondbacks to lose tomorrow – and that was the easy part.

Having said all that, I still would have enjoyed the delusion a bit longer. I would have enjoyed the Cardinals forcing the issue instead of a loss ending things. They needed the Wednesday games to go their way – and they did. One small problem. The Cardinals l

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