The Greatest Baseball Soap Opera Finish Ever!
The St. Louis Cardinals capped off an incredible September with a 8-0 blowout of the Houston Astros, while the Atlanta Braves lost a heart-breaker to the Philadelphia Phillies 4-3 in 13 innings. The Braves loss capped off a miserable month which featured the team blowing an 8 1/2 game lead in the Wild Card.
Meanwhile, the Baltimore Orioles played the role of playoff spoilers against the Boston Red Sox. Like the Braves, the Sox had a 9 game lead over Tampa Bay in the AL Wild Card standings earlier this month and appeared a cinch to make the postseason. Instead, Boston successfully pulled off one of the great late-season collapses in baseball history. The Orioles capped off the drama with two runs with two outs in the 9th inning off of Red Sox closer Jon Papelbon to shock the boys from Beantown 4-3.