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Beating the best team in Major League Baseball was icing on the cake for Chicago manager Joe Maddon after his Cubs had eliminated the top-seeded St. Louis Cardinals from the playoffs on Tuesday. Benefiting from a potent offense and then relying on their bullpen to blunt any chance of a Cardinals fightback, the Cubs won Game Four 6-4 at a raucous Wrigley Field to clinch their best-of-five National League Division Series 3-1. "They're the standard bearer so for us to be able to beat them tonight really is important to us as a franchise," Maddon told reporters after the Cubs reached the NL Championship Series for the first time since 2003.
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