The 5 x-factors that will decide Phillies-Dodgers

Here we go.

The two top National League favorites going head-to-head for the right to get to the NLCS.

This doesn’t feel like a Division Series. It feels like a World Series.

One prediction we can all feel comfortable about with Dodgers-Phillies is how tense it’s going to feel. Last January, I talked about how Rams-Eagles in the Divisional Round was the kind of matchup that was going to make us all feel like we were going to throw up for three straight hours. The same can be said for this series—only it’s over five games, at close to three hours a pop, over the span of a week. Get your tums or blood pressure medication or drink of choice ready. You’re going to need it.

How will it end? I don’t know. But I have an idea of how it’ll be decided.

Here are the five x-factors that will decide the series.