At the All-Star Break the Atlanta Braves sat with a record of 44-45. It wasn't much to write home about.
The team had just lost its biggest bat in bonafide slugger Ronald Acuña Jr. to a season-ending knee injury. Atlanta's ace, Mike Soroka, was on the shelf too. Very little was going well for the Braves.
The outlook was so bleak, Tom Tango of the website TangoTiger said, the odds of the Braves turning things around at that point in the season and winning the World Series were akin to "throwing three dice [and] all landing on six."
In a tweet sent out shortly after the Braves won the World Series on Tuesday, Tango broke down Atlanta's chances at the All-Star Break further.
"Atlanta had a 0.3 percent chance of winning the World Series, behind 15 other teams," Tango said of the Braves at the All-Star Break. "Which is what happens when those 15 teams are above .500 and you are not."