Anderson, Braves silence Reds to sweep series
ATLANTA » Ian Anderson dazzled in another shutout performance for Atlanta, and the Braves won a playoff series for the first time in almost two decades by sweeping the light-hitting Cincinnati Reds with a 5- 0 victory Thursday.
RonaldAcuña Jr. hadthree hits for the NL East champions, including a run-scoring double in the fifth. Atlanta broke open Game 2 on tworunhomers byMarcellOzuna and Adam Duvall off Raisel Iglesias in the eighth.
Anderson struck out nine in six innings as the Braves snapped their record-tying string of losses in 10 consecutive postseason rounds since their last playoff series win in 2001. Atlanta will face Miami or the Chicago Cubs in the NL Division Series in Houston.
PADRES 11, CARDINALS 9 » Fernando Tatis Jr. and Wil Myers each hit two home runs and Manny Machado also connected for San Diego, which rallied to beat St. Louis to force a deciding Game 3 in its NL wildcard series.
Tatis and Myers are the second teammates in postseason historywithmultiple homers in the same game, joining Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig of theNew York Yankees in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series — including Ruth’s famed “called shot.” GAME 2 OF MARLINS- CUBS WILD- CARD SERIES POSTPONED » Game 2 of the National League wild-card series between the Chicago Cubs and Miami Marlins was postponed because of a forecast for rain.
Miami leads 1- 0 after winning the opener 5-1, and the teams will meet Friday. YANKEES 10, INDIANS 9 » DJ LeMahieu’s tiebreaking single in the ninth inning off Cleveland closer BradHand sent New York into the AL Division Series with a wild win in a rain-delayedGame 2 that started in September and ended in October on Wednesday night. DODGERS 4, BREWERS 2 (WED.) » Mookie Betts had two hits and an RBI, Corey Seager homered and Los Angeles beat Milwaukee in the opener of theirNLwildcard series on Wednesday night.