This series reinforced multiple narratives. On one hand, it showed how unpredictable baseball can be in the postseason (particularly in the Wild Card era), while also reinforcing the narrative that the Braves left many opportunities of multiple championships on the table during their historic 14 year run of division titles (1991-2005). Although the Marlins had never won the NL East, they won more World Series as a wild card entrant (1997, 2003) than the Braves did as the NL West/NL East representative (1995 being their lone championship during the run).