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These are two interesting paragraphs from a good article on ESPN.com about the game last night:

In the final moments of the most important game of the season, the contest that would most likely determine whether legendary manager Bobby Cox's career would still have a chance to extend past the first round of the playoffs, the Atlanta Braves' infield featured the third-string third baseman, the second-string second baseman and the team's seventh-best reliever.

And even if the Braves somehow managed to escape a precarious bases-loaded one-out situation against the San Francisco Giants and push the game into an 11th inning, they would only manage to send the dreaded bottom part of the lineup to bat, a unit that included a well-traveled former pitcher turned hitter [Ankiel] who only was in the starting lineup because the two guys in front of him on the depth chart had not hit a lick.