[CardinalSagehen]

I assume it won’t last long, but right now, if you go to the main homepage of espn.com or directly to https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2780...-move-nlcs, the headline says:
“Nationals stun Clayton Kershaw, 
Dodgers to move on to NLCS”

Another video headline in the app says, “Kendrick’s 10th inning grand slam sends Nats to ALCS”.

Yikes, it must be amateur hour at ESPN, or budget cuts.   

The comma is supposed to be read as "and" -- a common trick to save space in newspaper headlines. But it makes this one into nonsense if you read it the more natural way, as a comma splice between sentences.

I don't have an excuse for ESPN mixing up the NL and AL.

When I read it on my phone, it wrapped to another line after the comma, making the effect much worse. Looks like they’ve now added the word “beat” after the comma to fix it.

I’m not sure about the Nats switching to the AL at this point in the season, per ESPN. It seems like that might be the harder path to the World Series...

[CardinalSagehen]

I assume it won’t last long, but right now, if you go to the main homepage of espn.com or directly to https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2780...-move-nlcs, the headline says:
“Nationals stun Clayton Kershaw, 
Dodgers to move on to NLCS”

Another video headline in the app says, “Kendrick’s 10th inning grand slam sends Nats to ALCS”.

Yikes, it must be amateur hour at ESPN, or budget cuts.   

The comma is supposed to be read as "and" -- a common trick to save space in newspaper headlines. But it makes this one into nonsense if you read it the more natural way, as a comma splice between sentences.

I don't have an excuse for ESPN mixing up the NL and AL.

When I read it on my phone, it wrapped to another line after the comma, making the effect much worse. Looks like they’ve now added the word “beat” after the comma to fix it.

I’m not sure about the Nats switching to the AL at this point in the season, per ESPN. It seems like that might be the harder path to the World Series...