The Diamondbacks shocked the baseball world on Tuesday night, winning a second straight game in Philadelphia with a 4-2 victory in game seven to advance to the World Series.
So, the Fall Classic will feature the 84-win D-Backs taking on the Rangers, two teams that lost 100 games two seasons ago.
“Sounds like a crapshoot to me,” C-Mac said, acknowledging that Brian Cashman might have been onto something when adopting the “crapshoot” mentality. “It’s a crapshoot, ladies and gentlemen.”
The best teams over the course of a 162-game regular season are long gone, many having been bounced before the LCS. Now the Phillies, who many assumed would roll to the World Series once Arizona advanced, are heading home as well, leaving two teams that were the longest of long shots to reach the Fall Classic when the season began.
“Ask Derek Jeter. He called it a crapshoot himself,” C-Mac said. “The best teams get in, and the hottest teams win.
“It is an absolute crapshoot…the Braves, the best team in baseball, fall on their faces. The Dodgers, they win that division every single year, finished 16 games better than the Diamondbacks. And the Phillies, you felt like they were on a collision course, and nothing was getting in their way…and then, here come the pesky little Diamondbacks, 84 wins, and here they are in the World Series, winning game six and game seven.”