Birds fans definitely need to sympathy today. That's an organization that has struggled to get to where they are with a potential championship window and are now 0-5 in their last playoff trips through no real fault of their own. Front office needs to do some soul searching and assemble an offense to go with their pitching.
I don't think there are any hands across America to be had to the Bravos. They're still firmly within their multiple championship window, three years removed from a title and probably did more with less than anyone in baseball this season. Their expected 162-game lineup improved on last year's 106 win ball club and that lineup played together for six innings this season before it started falling apart. Despite that they sent half of the AAA squad out there and still made the play-in round. They were issued house money on May 26th when the best baseball player on earth when healthy tore his knee. Any sympathy towards Braves fans should be redirected to Baltimore.