Previous to Thursday evening, the Atlanta Braves had by no means defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in a postseason sequence.
Philadelphia was 3-0 all-time in postseason matchups, together with 2022 and 2023 when it knocked Atlanta out of the postseason after the Braves had received 100-plus video games in every of these seasons.
These recollections are a factor of the previous after Thursday, although, because the Braves defeated the Phillies 6-2 in a winner-take-all sport to advance to the NLDS in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Atlanta hadn’t received a winner-take-all sport because the 1996 postseason
For the Braves, coming away victorious in a winner-take-all sport just isn’t one thing that many followers have seen. Thursday’s win in Recreation 3 of the wild-card sequence was Atlanta’s first win in a winner-take-all sport since Recreation 7 of the 1996 NLCS.
Coincidentally sufficient, Atlanta had three dwelling runs carry it to victory in each the 1996 (Andruw Jones, Fred McGriff, Javy Lopez) and 2026 (Michael Harris, Matt Olson, Ozzie Albies) video games.
For the Phillies, their drought of a victory in a winner-take-all sport continues, as they’ve not had a win in that scenario because the 1980 postseason.
