National League Update And Notes
Both the Chicago Cubs and Colorado Rockies have full one game, “one eighth” division leads entering the three game final weekend.
The Cubs, Milwaukee Brewers (the team one game behind the Cubs), and a former Milwaukee team, the Atlanta Braves, have clinched spots in the playoffs.
While Colorado has not clinched as much as an ‘offs spot, (they lead the Dodgers by one game and the Cards by two games and even have a half game edge over the Braves for the N.L. two seed) and certainly is a long way from a World Series berth, their current seven game win skein evokes memories of “same calendar” 2007, when they won 21 of 22 games, including all 7 N.L. post-season games and a tiebreaker game for playoffs qualification, before losing the World Series in 4 straight games to the Boston Red Sox.
