New York needed a sweep to take the title.
The Braves still can win the East, but they would need a sweep of Pittsburgh and a winless series by Washington against Philadelphia to force a tiebreaker game with the Nationals.
The underachieving Eagles (5-8) won for only the second time in the past six games and still need a sweep of the final three games to have any chance of repeating as N.F.C.
More than a century ago, in 1904, with the Highlanders needing a sweep of a last-day doubleheader at old Hilltop Park in Upper Manhattan, Boston clinched the pennant in the opener with a ninth-inning run that scored on a wild pitch by the right-hander Jack Chesbro, who had a 41-12 record that year.
J.T. Snow homered and the former Dodger Marquis Grissom doubled home two runs for the Giants, who need a sweep of the three-game series to either force a one-game playoff or win the division based on a 10-9 season record against the Dodgers if Houston loses at least once to Colorado this weekend.
The Red Sox regained their five-and-a-half-game lead in the American League East on the Yankees, who still lead the wild-card race but might have needed a sweep here this weekend to have a realistic chance at the division title.
This place needs a full sweep top to bottom.
And even if your love-sickness is related more to loneliness and feeling left behind, it's possible there's a lot of romantic clutter in your life that needs a clean sweep.
When dropped patties and melted ice cream piled up at his feet, Steven would call out, "I NEED A LINE SWEEP, I NEED A LINE SWEEP!" And then before anyone could possibly respond, he'd wield two brooms as if they were lashed together, bumping into people and yelling like a kamikaze in a movie, distraught and doomed, but kind of happy too.
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