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Major League Baseball reportedly sent out a memo last month providing guidelines for celebrations after clinching playoff berths or winning a postseason series. A failure to follow those standards involving the use of alcohol and fans could result in league discipline.

Sometimes it's just best to move on.

Best for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Best for Don Mattingly, too.

It's time for them to find a manager their front office of analytical all-stars can truly embrace. It's time for him to find a team that truly appreciates what he can do.

Fact: New York Mets' Daniel Murphy is the first player to hit a home run in six straight postseason games.

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Source: ESPN Stats & Info

The Los Angeles Dodgers and manager Don Mattingly are parting ways after three straight trips to the playoffs but just a single postseason series victory.

One league championship series down, one to go. The New York Mets completed their surprising sweep of the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley on Wednesday, as Lucas Duda drove in five runs and Daniel Murphy smashed a homer in the Amazins' 8-3 victory.

For the second consecutive season, the Kansas City Royals will have an opportunity to secure a spot in the World Series with one more victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. 

With their season on the line for the third time already this postseason, the Blue Jays got a tremendous start from Marco Estrada and a big sixth inning to force a sixth game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday. 

"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." - Pedro Martinez, Boston Red Sox, 2001 

Both the National League and American League Championship Series have given us plenty of memorable moments to talk about for years and years to come. 

Many of those moments have been provided by some of the unlikeliest candidates. Over the next few slides, we'll rank a few of those surprise impact players. 

Surprises come in different shapes and sizes.

For all the numbers, data, formulas and eyeball scouting, the decision-makers in Major League Baseball are still human—sometimes.

They are prone to non-analytical judgments. They have feelings. They watch the postseason like everyone else. They feel the ups and the downs, and they see and feel the emotion involved with it all.

The end is near. A couple short weeks from now, the World Series will be over and Major League Baseball will hunker down for the winter.

But hey, it's not as bad as it sounds. There may not be any actual baseball, but the offseason features more than enough of the next best thing: baseball news! There will be all sorts of wheeling and dealing, and many players changing addresses. It'll be fun. I promise.

So, we might as well get a head start on getting ready.