Spencer Strider saying “we’ll see how that offense works in October” as the Mets lose their first series scoring 1 and 0 runs in the losses is absolutely perfect
This is why there should be re-seeding after the WC round. Braves reward for winning more games than the Dodgers is getting to play the 3rd best team in the NL win team while the Dodgers get the 6th best team.
Mets fans are thinking “hey maybe he’ll throw so many pitches he won’t be available tomorrow” and Braves fans are thinking “hey maybe he’ll throw so many pitches he won’t be available tomorrow”
In the 6 games since Mookie became the betting favorite for MVP, Acuña has gone 13-25 (.520) with 4 HRs, 2 2Bs, 10 RBI, 4 SBs 3 walks and zero strikeouts
at least no one has to hear about CBP being the best home field advantage in baseball anymore
you can’t lose game 6 and 7 at home and still go on about it
The 5 other division leaders besides ATL are CIN, ARZ, TB, CLE, and TEX.
The Braves have played road series against all 5 and went 5-0 in those series.
Before we get too far down the Vaughn Grissom road, let’s appreciate Orlando Arcia putting up a 102 wRC+ this season in 200 PAs and playing pretty damn solid 2B defense while Ozzie was out.
Ozuna took a $6M paycut from last year to this year to get a contract worked out with ATL. He told his agent to “work it out” with the Braves. He wanted to be here. It’s disingenuous not to give Snit credit for the culture he’s created in the clubhouse.
Last time the Braves were in Houston Will Smith threw a pitch to Yuli Gurriel who hit it to Dansby Swanson who thew it over to Freddie Freeman to win the World Series and the only guy from that play in the Braves organization today is Yuli Gurriel
The Braves winning 44 games in the first half, 44 games in the second half and then winning the World Series the year Hank died would be… I don’t even know.
Everyone is gonna talk about be Mets blowing the 10 1/2 game lead on June first but there’s still like 100 games to play at that point.
Far worse to be me is blowing a 7 game lead on August 11th, an 8-4 advantage in the head-to-head, and the easiest schedule in baseball in Sept.
When the Braves started this tough 17 games stretch (BAL, BOS, TOR, TEX, SEA, LAD) they had just lost Max Fried and had a 6 game lead in the NL East.
They went 8-9 over the 17 games and now their lead in NL East is 5.5 games.
Honestly, I’ll take it.
Dodgers got swept by the Pirates. I don’t want hear shit about the easy schedule. They’re still major league teams that you have to beat.
12 in a row is ridiculous against any schedule
Braves just beat Jacob deGrom with Ehire Adrianza, Guillermo Heredia, Abraham Almonte, Kevan Smith and a pitcher in the lineup.
this beautiful dumb sport
Just a PSA for Cubs’ fans:
When Swanson is 15 for his last 100 with 40 strikeouts, I promise it won’t last.
And when he’s 47 for his last 100 with, 8 HRs, I promise it won’t last.
Acuña and Olson have been on base in 11 of their 16 plate appearances so far in the series.
Olson and d’Arnaud have driven in 8 of the Braves’ 9 runs in the series.
If the Braves wanted to transition Soroka from AAA to the majors as smoothly as possible, there may not be a better spot to do it than Oakland next week, where the competition and crowd are as close to AAA level as you’re ever gonna see in the majors
Will Smith will be a postseason hero for the rest of his life in ATL and nothing will ever change that but the dude scares the shit out of me every time he pitches
Braves new stadium opened in 2017 and through the 2024 season, the Braves will have had more opening days in Philadelphia (3) than they’ve had in their own park (2)
By the way, Seager had a 147 wRC+ last year for LA. Freeman is projected for a 140 wRC+ this year. This Dodger team is no better than the one Atlanta dog walked in playoffs last year. Yeah they didn’t have Muncy but we didn’t have RAJ.
Braves in 6.
Dansby Swanson had reservations about the Cubs at first but was eventually sold and likes his choice niow. Swanson has won wherever he’s been so he wasn’t sure about the fit at first. “Truth be told, I wanted to win. I wasn’t sure this was the place.”
My take on the celebration last night: it’s not the Braves problem the Cubs have to treat these like playoff games. They’ve clinched all their stuff. If they want to take 30 seconds to celebrate something that’s never been done before in front of their fans, Cubs can get over it
If the Braves win a bullpen game tomorrow, they will have won this World Series with Kyle Wright pitching more innings than Charlie Morton, Max Fried, or Ian Anderson.
Wasn’t watching live but Acuña got 3 pitches inside and just stared at the pitcher, the dude starts screaming at him and walking towards him and Acuña is getting blamed for escalating it? Absolutely not. Just haters hating
Braves’ fans spent a comical amount of time debating who the CF of the future was between Pache or Waters and who C of the future was between Langeliers and Contreras considering none of the 4 are now part of the organization and the answers are Michael Harris II and Sean Murphy.
Braves lost their ace for the season, their other ace has had a brutal
start, they’ve been without their all-star C and their all-star 2B, their 3 best hitters (Acuña, Olson and Riley) are all hitting a couple levels below their norm
and they have the best record in baseball
we gotta stop worshiping at the feet of Freddie. He’s not jesus, he didn’t die, he just changed jobs. I promise it’s fine. Someone can use his locker. Put phil Gosselin’s ass there for all I care.
Dansby Swanson is expected to assume part of the leadership role vacated by Freddie Freeman's departure. But when asked if he would assume Freeman's former locker at Truist Park, he said, "No! Maybe they’ll put caution tape over it."
If I’m cubs fans, I maybe spend less time focused on celebrations more time focused on your $71M pitcher getting out pitched by a 20-year-old rookie in your biggest game of the year
The Rays let Charlie Morton go in FA, traded Blake Snell, lost Tyler Glasnow to TJ, still won 100 games, and easily finished 1st in the best division in baseball. It’s absurd what they do.
The quality of the Phillies at-bats and Braves at-bats couldn’t be farther apart. Phillies working counts, fouling pitches off, swinging at good pitches, getting on base
Braves aren’t doing any of that.
How bad was the lead-off spot for ATL in the Reds’ series?
Matt Olson had 8 hits, including 3 extra base hits, and his only RBI of the series was when he drove in himself with a HR.