The Cincinnati Reds are once again bound for October’s stage , returning to the postseason for the first time since the pandemic-curtailed 2020 campaign. They seized the National League’s final wild card on the very last day of the marathon season. Amid a 4-2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, fortune smiled as the New York Mets tumbled 4-0 to the Miami Marlins , giving Cincinnati the lifeline they needed. Both teams closed at 83-79, but the Reds’ supremacy in their head-to-head matchups, winning four of six games against New York, proved decisive.

The Reds became the first team in MLB history to reach the postseason in a full, 162-game season without a single qualifying batter hitting .270, without a player hitting 25 home runs, without a pitcher winning 15 games, and without a pitcher

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