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Infante
Heyward
Prado
Lee
Bmac
Diaz
AAG
Melky
Hanson
in september
Melky – 38 ab’s – .499OPS
McLouth – 27 ab’s – 1.070OPS
The Braves’ drive to the NL pennant begins today.
Jeff sees ducks on the pond and gets the urge to hit a ground ball to a shortstop.
Yes, let’s ride that Dada chicken to the post-season.
A Dada haiku:
Duck floor hxbthykl.
MOON! FRTRYHOMRUN!
Meaninglessness is meaningless.
Hanson’s the only guy who can make 4 starts on normal rest, isn’t he? Does Hudson have any history of pitching on short rest?
Poor duck!
Braves are gonna go on a Rockies-like tear and win 14 out of their last 18 to end up with a 97-65 record and win the East.
You heard it here first.
WTF Bobby?
McLouth watches some tape with Chipper, seems to have figured things out, he tears the cover off the ball batting sixth, then you put him back on the bench to have our WORST CF play one of the largest outfields in the league?
I smell a lot of doubles tonight.
@AAR:
+1
Note to self:
No negative bullshit.
Go Braves!
Maybe the Braves need to study Taoism?
The fiddler plays
Though no one listens
The fiddler plays
That shouldn’t be hard to adapt to Braves baseball.
No SEC picks Mac? I was curious to see how bad you think Vandy beats us.
Was this inspired by that rabbit with a pancake on its head?
#10
Mets are pitching a lefty. Probably why McLouth is sitting.
Odd Fact: In his brief career, LHP Jon Niese is worse vs LHH than RHH.
691 PA vs RHH, 277/338/426
190 PA vs LHH, 281/358/467
Not-So-Odd Fact: In his longer career, Nate McLouth hasn’t really hit lefties at all.
583 PA vs LHP, 233/309/370
1746 PA vs RHP, 259/345/463
Was this inspired by that rabbit with a pancake on its head?
Aren’t we all, in one way or another?
SEC picks in the morning.
melky-f*cked again.
I can’t help thinking about all the catches that Ankiel had to make against the Mets when Hanson pitched against them ten days ago. And how many of them would have rolled to the wall if Melky had been out there instead. Keep it down, Tommy.
in last saturday’s game, melky lead off an inning 3 times with the pitcher up next and the very predictable thing occurred: 2 quick outs…EVERY TIME! the only reason it didnt happen the 4th time was freddie freeman pinch hit for the pitcher, struck out, then reached on a passed ball.
why are old people so stubborn?
Well in Bobby’s favor (and I for one am very unwilling to give Bobby this sort of credit), his only serviceable CF is McLouth and he sucks against LHP. Which is something that the whole lineup sucks against, so there’s really no reason to make it any worse than you have to just to keep some guy out of the lineup.
Just win, baby.
An easy and meaningful Yom Kippur fast to those members of the board who observe it. Go Braves.
Lee and Melky play.
Golfing starts October 4th.
I’m a masochist.
I don’t understand Melky in center. I really don’t. I hope he goes 4-4
mattingly to take over for torre. was this just announced?
Braves just placed 8th in SC’s Not Top Ten for not noticing they had three outs against Washington on Wednesday.
What happened to McCann’s face?
Due up in the top of the third inning: Cabrera-Pitcher-Leadoff
In other words: time to get snacks or use the bathroom.
I don’t understand Melky in center. I really don’t.
2010 vs LHP:
McLouth .137/.228/.157
Ankiel .170/.267/.189
Even the Mets announcers are sympathizing with Bobby.
Glad to “see” that Cox isn’t going gentle into that good night.
The old ‘fire up the troops by getting ejected’ trick. Also known by Bobby Cox as ‘Plan A’.
Not working so far.
Man, Tommy Hanson really is the second inning’s bitch isn’t he?
Same old shit
Goddamn, Hanson! Can’t any of our starters get pitchers out?
Hey! Another opposing pitcher RBI haven’t had one of those in a few days!
Should’ve traded Hanson when we had the chance.
He doesn’t have his fastball and his breaking stuff is being called balls. Not a good combination.
Can’t any of our starting pitchers nut up and just shut down an opponent? Please?
Fail to get a runner home from 2nd with no outs.
Promptly give up a big inning.
Same fucking shit.
You just knew this sort of stuff was coming with the dbag Hohn behind the plate.
Phillies score six in the first against Washington. We scored six in our last f*cking SERIES against Washington.
Just like the ’08 season. One thing goes wrong, and it infects the entire system. An Ebola virus of failure.
Like lambs to the slaughter- Except at least lamb fucking tastes good.
I’d almost rather be a Pirate fan. At least then I know not to expect anything.
Good baserunning. I hit here would be nice.
That inning was about ten percent Hanson’s fault. The rest was 40 percent Hohn, 55 percent bad luck, and five percent Melky, just for his general presence dragging the team down. As for Ankiel and McLouth against lefties, at least they can play centerfield. Playing Melky there is ridiculous.
Heyward…I think we should keep him.
Heyward did his best to get in the way there. Atleast someone is trying to pull out all the stops.
49- Kind of like the joke about keeping your distributor cap and screwing in a new car under it.
Can we start a support group soon? I am in need of serious counseling. Football will console me but not fix my deep issues. Help me someone.
God I hate that guy.
First pitch pop up that went about five feet.
Thanks for that A Gon.
Melky drove in a run? GameDay must be on the fritz again.
Melky of course comes through. That’s why you don’t just punt the eighth spot.
Make em pay!
YES OMAR!!!!
Yes!
Batting Champ!!
Sumbitch. A rally! Great work, Hanson and Omar!
BOOM!
HOLY $&#$!!!!!
JASON! HEIR TO CHIPPA!
That was smashed. Oh man oh mah.
WHOO!!! ‘Bout freakin’ time.
did anyone else notice McCann looks like he got beat-up? i guess apparently he “fell running around (the) pool”.
http://thesportsidiot.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/brian_mccann_red_eyes.jpg
that pool got him on the top sides and front!
Why do lefthanders keep throwing low and inside to Heyward?
any report on mccann’s face?
Yeah McCann looks like he got smacked around. Probably just something involving his mask.
Brian slipped and fell running around his swimming pool. Of course he did.
68- I was wondering why they pitched to Heyward at all. Prado’s not hitting that well lately.
For anyone wanting to see the article on McCann’s face..
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100917&content_id=14763270¬ebook_id=14764148&vkey=notebook_atl&c_id=atl
God damn you, Hanson.
Duda was 3-37 going into this game…
That report on McCann’s swimming pool might be the best, most honest article Mark Bowman has written! But really, you should have seen the other pool!
If that accident had happened to Heyward, the pool would have been bruised.
Jason Heyward doesn’t hit home runs, the balls fly away from his bat in fear
Don’t look now, but the ejection strategy seems to have worked (so far).
Maybe Chino Cadahia is just an unbelievable in-game manager. He should get the job full time!
Melky is the Anti-Jeter.
Bobby Cox is hiding in Chino Cadahia’s pants
Oh, Melky. You really can’t get too mad at him.
Can someone make a .gif of Melky swinging and getting hit in the leg? I need to look at that every day.
83- Sure I can. You can too. Just wait.
Pretty sure that’s a dead ball.
Looking for the rule, so far I’ve got that if a ball comes partially apart during play, it remains a live ball until the play is completed. I hope that’s actually happened and it’s not just a hypothetical.
Here’s Rule 5.04:
The offensive team’s objective is to have its batter become a runner, and its runners advance.
But it doesn’t say anything about the objective changing if you score multiple runs in an inning and take the lead. That’s odd, someone should definitely tell Bobby.
82 — awesome
Ok,6.08 APPROVED RULING: When the batter is touched by a pitched ball which does not entitle him to first base, the ball is dead and no runner may advance.
Is it at all possible that Hanson is a reliever more than a starter?
#90, yes, the guy with a 2.74 ERA since the All Star break should be converted to be a reliever. Are you serious?
Manny Time! Maybe this will liven up the bats.
And maybe not.
Odds Melky knew that rule? Though to be fair, he did swing, miss, and get hit, so running to first to beat a throw is probably not the first instinct.
@91
No, the guy with a 3.3 K/BB, a 6.2 K/9, a .232 BABIP, and who can’t seem to get his head in the game until the third inning or later.
You must have your guy confused with someone else.
#90 – no, Tommy is usually awful in his 1st inning
Pitch 1-15 8.57ERA
Pitch 16-30 3.04
Pitch 31-45 2.60
Pitch 46-60 4.94
Pitch 61-75 0.68
Pitch 76-90 4.13
Pitch 91-105 1.53
Pitch 106-20 0.00
Melky’s all over that one.
Prado should make that runner avoid him, not the other way around
You crushed that one New Guy. At least you got to it before it hit the plate.
saito is hurt, i think
edit: yep, he’s out
100- Sure hope you’re wrong. Saito’s been a rock all year; it’d be such a shame to lose him now.
Well, that sucks.
Yeah, he hurt his leg again. Old guys get hurt.
that’s no good at all
that appeared to be a arm/shoulder issue…
I thought it was his arm too.
My mistake then. Watching with the sound off for obvious reasons.
The Braves’ last hit was Heyward’s HR. Hibernation Mode indeed. Now let’s hope Wagner makes it stand up.
Nothing funny here, Wags.
Braves win!
I’m not a baseball historian, but is Jason Heyward the greatest player in the history of the game?
Sweet.
yes
Kudos to Wagner. Nothing but high heat and breaking sliders.
Phillies are gonna win, but the Pads are getting smashed.
lets go Dodgers and Brewers
This was the kickstart that the Braves needed. After this they are going to score runs consistently and the pitchers are going to settle back down and the Braves will cruise to their 97 win season.
Recapped.