Okay, so no play-in games. We know where we're headed- I'm sure the team's probably already in Milwaukee right now, getting ready for the game on Saturday...

Recaps:

• [Dbacks.com] D-backs headed to Milwaukee to open NLDS - Sorry, Dodgers, you're pretty much a footnote on the game here. But you're probably just glad to have the season done with.

• [FS Arizona] D-backs' rally falls short in loss to Dodgers - They gave it a try for another late-game rally, but didn't quite get it.

• [AZ Central] Diamondbacks to play Brewers in NLDS after loss to Dodgers - Who had "Cole Gillespie hits a grand slam in the last game of the regular season" in the pool?

• [LA Times] Dodgers' Matt Kemp has one final blast in 7-5 victory - Well, almost going 40-40 isn't that impressive, Kemp, geez... No, it's actually still pretty cool.

• [DBacks.com] Five keys for D-backs this postseason - What will it take for the DBacks to succeed here? Besides winning more games than they lose.

• [NBC Sports] Unlikely turnaround? Don't tell that to D-backs "People thought Gibby maybe was a bit crazy in spring training, with all the stuff he was making us do,'' closer J.J. Putz said. "But after that stretch in May, that's when we started gaining our identity as a team. Guys thought, you know what? Maybe he isn't crazy. He does know what he's doing.''

• [AZ Central] Fans slow to join Arizona Diamondbacks' bandwagon - Well, it's Phoenix. The fans are slow to show up sometimes. But they had pretty good attendance over the past two series, right?

• [The D-blog] Blum ecstatic to be back in postseason - Geoff Blum kind of has the Craig Counsell thing to him in my mind- I stop and think, "Wait, he's won a World Series?"

• [FS Arizona] Top of rotation puts D-backs in elite crowd - Looking at how the bullpen has done better this year, it probably doesn't hurt that we've had three starters put up over 200 innings for the first time in franchise history...

• [FanGraphs] Jarrod Parker Debuts For Diamondbacks - Hey, there was more to Tuesday's game than just extra innings? It may have been overshadowed by the excitement, but Jarrod Parker did have a pretty nice outing.

• [FS Arizona] History on side of worst-to-first D-backs - DBacks are the ninth team to have gone from last place to the playoffs since 1979. Six of the previous eight went to the World Series? Really?

Around Baseball:

• [ThePostGame] Greatest Collapses In Major League History - There's plenty of them out there...

• [ESPN] ESPN predicts the 2011 baseball season  - 45 experts. Seven of them still have a shot to be right about the World Series winner, but the other thirty eight picked teams that didn't make the playoffs- mostly the Red Sox. And no one picked the Diamondbacks to win the division.

• [SI.com] Drama of Rays, Red Sox and Braves made for unforgettable final day - I hope you didn't take yesterday off from baseball. If you did, you missed out on some pretty tense games.

• [The Washington Post] Major League Baseball attendance up by under 1 percent, 1st rise since 2007 - Well, after a lot of concern in the early season about attendance numbers, looks like they weren't that bad after all? The DBacks ended up averaging about 600 more fans per home game.

• [Baseball Nation] Adam Dunn: Almost Famous - Aw, so close, Adam! Just a few plate appearances shy of making history.

• [Big League Stew] Perfect: Dodgers’ Eugenio Velez sets record with 0-for-37 season - 0 for 37. That's impressive.