How The Cubs Won The NL Wild-Card Game

The benches have emptied in the game, adding a frisson of aggression to what was until now a pretty calm affair. Ironically, in hockey — the sport that actually allows fighting — the rate of fights dramatically declines in the playoffs!

Ooof — as Chad wrote, that double play dropped Pittsburgh’s win probability by 13 percentage points. But don’t feel too bad, Starling Marte: it only tied for the sixth-costliest double play hit into by a Pirate batter in postseason history.