The Braves are now 4-4 in the first games of series, and 0-4 in the second games. Basically, in the second games of series, the Braves have been this:
Or even this:
This is totally unacceptable.
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Not.Phil.Collins. It’s only April. What are you going to do in July??
Mac’s saving ‘Sussudio’ for July.
Poor, poor Mets. Another excruciating loss.
Bet they’ll be glad when Troy Tulowitzki leaves town. In the first 3 games of the series, he’s: 8 for 12 with 3 HR, 7 RBI, 4 R & 3 BB.
And now for Game 2 of the DH.
Until the Braves start a good winning streak, Mac should give them the worst of American Idol.
Is there a difference between best and worse of AI?
Ok, good point. All of American Idol. Cant tip your cap to that garbage.
Great story, Ububba. Thanks for sharing.
I found something Chip and I have in common — we’ve both been sent sprawling on the softball field by ububba! In my case it was during practice for the bar league team we both played on sporadically, circa ’88 or so. I was at SS and Jim was in LF (which was not a comment on our relative skills…I was not allowed at SS during games), and there was a popup in no man’s land that we both went for but neither could reach. Two steps after the ball landed I ran into his knee and went ass-over-teakettle. The lesson, evidently, is that nobody on either team is free from danger. 🙂
@41 (previous) – Law firm? ACL?
I smell lawsuit. If you sue someone in the same firm is it incest?
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I’m already worried about the Rockies. They clearly want our WC spot.
#8
Not while I’m on the field, apparently.
But… God, I don’t remember that play at all. Well, it was a beer league.
Which also explains why it didn’t hurt….
Speaking for every Braves fan, I wish you’d play softball with Chip Caray again, ububba.
ububba, I’m happy to hear WUOG once fielded a decent softball team. During my years at the station, post-Caray, I was a member of quite possibly the worst intramural softball team to ever step on UGA’s fields: the WUOG Ball Breakers.
Me, my roommate and one of the sons of of former WCW and Braves postgame announcer Tony Schiavone were the only three guys who could throw the ball from 3B to 1B. Sad.
WUOG’s basketball team was better. They had a couple ringers, including a UGA fullback who had a part-time DJ gig.
He put some bruises on me, but I did drop a hook shot over him once.
Off to The Bronx to see the Baltimore Showalters…
Troy Tulowitzki is pretty good. That is all.
I was confused at first by the OP. It read to me like the Braves were .500 in series openers, but a moment’s thought told me that clearly meant they’d gone 4 for 4, not had a record of 4 wins and 4 losses. 😀
Uggla needs to start hitting
I know it’s Hanley Ramirez, but you’ve got to go after him a bit more aggressively there, Beaches.
Now that was just unfortunate.
Well, this was a fun game. See everyone tomorrow!
So, it looks like the Braves might suck.
Prado was loafing. That’s odd.
Yeah, I thought he played that ball pretty poorly.
I mean, two runs were scoring. Maybe he can cut it off before it gets to the wall, but all told, I think it was a double with two in even if you’ve got Carl Crawford in LF.
@24 maybe, but it was still very un-Prado. And as soon as I type this, Prado hustles to make it 1st and 3rd. It’s hard to stay mad at Prado.
Come on Chipper…
Gotta give credit where it’s due: good situational hitting by Nate. He saw that hole and guided it through.
So, this is getting old. I hate starting every game in a hole.
Whew, ok, thank you offense!!!
Alright alright alright!
Well, then.
Bahahahaha. Nice!
Hello offense
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Off the mat!
So, it looks like the Braves might dominate.
pimpbot: activated
Uggla takes some pretty horrifying swings. It has always amazed me.
Beachy needs a quick innning
Offense gets you back in the game and you walk the first batter, unreal…
It looks like Beachy might just suck. He can’t afford to walk guys.
Beachy’s command is terrible.
He’s ahead 0-2 to every batter
I said command, not control.
EDIT: frustrating first two innings. Hopefully he can settle down and give the Braves a few more frames.
49 pitches in two innings. The Lisp went two innings last night. Could be an interesting bullpen game.
Stupid Beachy
Ugh.
Beachy is having a terrible game.
Pitiful.
The world’s worst garage band is practicing outside my window. They’ve been practicing every week for about 6 months now so I know all of their crappy songs by heart. It’s making this game much harder to watch.
Can you imagine how frustrated Brian McCann is, right now?
So awful.
Is Jurrjens starting on Saturday?
He is
This game is literally stripping the joy out of me. A joy vacuum, if you will.
That went a LONG way!
Hey, Uggla finally did something with the bat!
That was a beam.
Dan Uggla: Restorer of joy.
Almost seems impossible.
Cliff Lee 7IP 10K only 72 pitches
Uggla has an OPS+ of 31.
I like the aggressiveness tonight. I felt like they rolled over and died last night.
Great job getting Jhey to 3rd AAG. Awful AB
Wouldve been a run
sheffield? cliff lee?
damn freeman killed that!
58 – That’s just amazing.
Nate just missed one there
Unreal…just unlucky
Bah, poor luck.
Pete’s not what you’d call “nimble” out there.
Man, that slider was making them look SILLY.
Love the Munsters theme for Giancarlo Stanton. Him taking BP is like when Herman took BP for the Dodgers.
Another AB where JHEY gets nothing close to hit. AAG needs to make someone pay.
It would be nice if anybody at the bottom of the lineup made someone pay.
that wasnt close to being a strike
need to flip Freeman and AAG soon
Ahh, commmon!!!!!!
Tough break. But he had it the whole way.
SHEEESH.
Thought Brooks had it past him.
Ugh.
Good thing Fredi pulled the LOOGY after facing three right hangers in a row.
May have cost us the game
EOF isnt a loogy
In his defense, the bullpen is shot.
Everything will be fine. Linebrink has come into the game. We can relax now.
Holy shit Linebrink has looked like an actual major league relief pitcher the last couple times out.
Good damage control by Linebrink.
I told you all. I never had any doubt 😉
Damn…the Braves are already 4 games behind the Phillies? W/o Utley?
The braves have only 3 guys with OBPs above .300 right now. We are just not fun to watch right now.
Really struggling to remember why I was so excited about baseball season.
“It’s only X games into the season”, etc.
Heh. Could’ve used that a little earlier! Still, nice start. 😀
Gaa! Freddie, you’re killin me!
Why are we not pinch running for Gonzo?
Never mind, wouldnt have mattered
Damn I thought that was ballgame
man, they sure have had their RF positioned well on Freddie tonight
Well that was disappointing.
Blech.
2-4 on this homestand.
Freeman should have 3 doubles
5-8, three straight series lost. 2-7 in the last nine.
This is starting to get worrisome.
freddie’s lineup is starting to piss me off. our best hitter doesn’t get anything to hit.
Recapped.