Braves Buck Their Narrative and Break Through to the N.L.C.S.
For a decade, the path to the National League pennant almost always went through Atlanta. Of the 10 N.L. Championship Series from 1991 through 2001, the Braves played in nine. They went all the way just once, in 1995, but they were N.L. royalty.
And then it stopped. From 2002 through