[vhawk01]

Cal Ripken just cleared up why the Dbacks are in the playoffs even though they scored less runs than they gave up.

They manufacture runs and believe in themselves. I don't know what the manufacturing runs has to do with anything, since their opponents apparently do it too, and do it better. But the believing in themselves thing makes sense. I didn't watch a lot of Dbacks games this year, but it makes sense that there were 10-15 games where the final out was recorded, the score was Opponent 7, Dbacks 2, but the Dbacks believed in themselves, rather than the score, and marked it down as a win anyway.