NEW YORK -- First-place Dodgers?
Swept a week ago at PNC Park.
First-place Mets?
Swept Sunday at Citi Field, by way of an 8-1 annihilation. Season sweep, too. All six.
The Cardinals?
Eh, let's talk some more about how the Pirates manhandle most everyone else, OK?
"This is the game of baseball. This is how you play it," Sean Rodriguez, one of the clubhouse leaders, was saying afterward. "It's about battling through bad situations, pushing, pushing, pushing, and then pushing some more even after you're successful. That's what this team is. That's what you're seeing right now."
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