The Cubs may have won the NL Central with the four-game sweep of Milwaukee yesterday at Miller Park. At the same time, this may have been a much-needed jolt of reality for the Brewers. The NL Central race would have gone down to the final days of the season even if the Brewers had pulled off the four-game feat. Perhaps this is the reality check the Brew Crew needed. The baseball gods will not let them enjoy an easy ride to the postseason, not after last season's collapse. That's why baseball is so beautiful. And so symmetrical. Yet so unforgiving.
Meanwhile, the White Sox hope they didn't lose their division last night in Minnesota. Okay, so this post may be a little hyperbolic, but the Metrodome has been a house of horrors for the White Sox this decade, and for the second time in the series the Sox blew a 4-0 lead and lost the game. They also lost a chance to split and maintain the 2 1/2 game lead they held going into the series. Now they cling to a half-game lead and must rebound on the road in steamy hot Kansas City. Much like they did in getting swept at Wrigley Field earlier in the season, the Sox seemed to psych themselves out of playing solid fundamental baseball the entire series (that is, much less fundamental than they normally play).
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