2015 NATIONAL LEAGUE BASEBALL DIVISION SERIES
TBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
The final division series winner is decided tonight. Previously, in the National League, the Chicago Cubs had advanced by beating the St. Louis Cardinals – and last night, the American League finished up their respective best-of-five division series in memorable fashion. The Kansas City Royals came back from a 2-0 deficit to beat the Houston Astros 7-2, while the Toronto Blue Jays came back from a 3-2 deficit against the Texas Rangers, and one of the wildest scoring plays in baseball history, to add its own historic stamp to a wild seventh inning that lasted almost an hour. When the inning was over, Toronto was ahead 6-3, and that score held up through the final intense innings. Great game. So the Royals and Blue Jays meet for the American League Championship Series, while the Cubs meet the winner of tonight’s deciding division series game between the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodger, televised live from Dodger Stadium. This series, too, has its major league drama – literally. In Game 2, Dodgers infielder Chase Utley slid hard into second base to break up a potential double play, and broke Mets infielder Ruben Tejada’s leg in the process. The league assessed Utley with a two-game suspension, which he’s appealing – and because of that appeal, he’s eligible, after missing the previous two games, to play in today’s deciding Game 5. Whether he takes the field or not is up to the Dodgers – but Tejada, of course, has no such option.