Even if the Dodgers hadn’t won more than 100 games and weren’t the defending Champs, a one game series vs Scherzer would almost certainly put them in the “favorite” category. As it stands, the Cardinals are the ones that needed a record breaking September surge to make it into the one game W1LDCARD going 22-7 in the month including a 17 game win streak to capture the 2nd W1LDCARD.