![]() Brian Jordan, right fielder, had been able to keep up during the season, but hadn’t been able to produce the same in the NLDS. The problem for the Braves was that except for Chipper Jones, they couldn’t really count on anyone else. The third baseman was easily having one of the best seasons of his tremendous career and had knocked in 5 of the 13 runs the Braves scored against the Astros. However, their offence had been quite numb during the season, although they could still rally behind another future Hall-of-Famer, Chipper Jones. But the Braves could still lean on a terrific pitching corps, led by future Hall-of-Famer Greg Maddux. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t a surprise that Atlanta was playing in the play-offs, but they did so after their worst win-loss ratio in years, barely leaving the Phillies behind with 88 wins. The Braves had defied the odds by sweeping the Houston Astros in their NLDS match-up. Louis Cardinals in the NLDS, what we read last week, in the NLCS it was a surprise that the Atlanta Braves was going to be the next enemy. Had the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks beaten a strong opponent like the St. 2001 NLCS: Diamondbacks punch out the Braves (4-1) I will make a comment for next week’s article though: I only have one World Series to look back to, so the possible content for a throwback article is getting slimmer by the week. That makes for a perfect set-up to look back at the two NLCS series the Diamondbacks played in the past, just like we reviewed the NLDS last week. I was about to leave this #ThrowbackThursday for what it is until we swept the Dodgers (lol) in the NLDS (more lol) and advanced to the NLCS. To dig up histories from the past when the Diamondbacks are making history at this very moment feels to me like putting water over a hot barbecue that is delivering the best spareribs you have eaten in a long time.
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