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Who Will Fall into the Wild-Card Round? Defending Champion Dodgers Face a Warning as Braves Catch Up

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

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  • Atlanta beat Washington 9-0, using three-run home runs from Sean Murphy and Ronald Acuña Jr. to pull level with the Dodgers.
  • Milwaukee leads the National League with an 86-53 record, while Atlanta is 83-57 and Los Angeles is 82-56.
  • Under the current playoff format, the division winner with the weakest record must play in the wild-card round.

The Atlanta Braves have caught the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League race, making the wild-card question increasingly tense. Atlanta crushed the Washington Nationals 9-0 and now has no games separating it from Los Angeles.

The game remained scoreless through five innings before Sean Murphy broke the deadlock with a three-run homer in the top of the sixth. Ronald Acuña Jr. followed with another three-run shot in the seventh, and Atlanta added insurance runs in the final two innings.

Reliever Elieser Hernández earned the win after throwing three scoreless innings. The result gave Atlanta an 83-57 record, level with the Dodgers, who stood at 82-56 in the National League West.

Milwaukee, leading the Central Division at 86-53, owns the best record in the league and is in position to advance directly to the division series. Under the current postseason format, the division winner with the poorest record must begin in the wild-card round, leaving Atlanta and Los Angeles in a close fight to avoid it.

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Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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