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MLB The Show 19 (2019)

Duration: 11:38

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The Reds start their Postseason early, as they face their historical rivals, the Dodgers, in the Wild Card. They use to battle for an Postseason birth, when they were in the same division.

Arguably the best of these now defunct rivalries was the one shared by the Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds as they constantly battled for NL West supremacy in the 1970s, with a few more installments in the ‘80s. Right down to their contrasting colors, the teams were perfect opposites. The Reds were quintessential Midwestern baseball, clean-shaven (thanks to a rule forbidding facial hair) and required to wear plain black cleats.

The Dodgers, on the other hand, defined West Coast decadence. Both teams’ rosters were shaped by many of the decade’s superstars like Pete Rose, Steve Garvey, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Ron Cey, and Johnny Bench. They were led by Hall of Fame managers, with Sparky Anderson manning the dugout in the Queen City and Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda leading the Boys in Blue.


The Davis-Charlton-Scioscia incidents proved the apogee of the rivalry. With the advent of the Wild Card just a few years later, the Reds were shifted to the newly created NL Central. Granted, it allowed the two teams to finally meet in the postseason in the 1995 NLDS, which the Reds swept in just three games.

This time, they face off in the Wild Card with an slot in the Postseason

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