The trade deadline came and past like any other year. But unlike any other year this decade, the Braves made some key moves to strength almost all units of the roster.
It began with the smallest deal, Jonny Venters from … Finish Reading
Month: July 2018
Braves; a Hand Full, Marlins; a Trident
Last night, we enjoyed the dream of Goldilocks. We didn’t have “Bad Julio” or certainly not “Good Julio”, but rather, “less than catastrophic Julio.” That was good enough. He gave up 3 runs in 5 innings because he was at … Finish Reading
Braves 4, Dodgers 1
Doom, doom, go away.
For 8 2/3 innings, Sean Newcomb put the “0” in “hope,” before Chris Taylor broke up his no-hit bid with a 2 strike single past a diving Johan Camargo. Defensive indifference and a Manny Machado… Finish Reading
Dodgers 5 Braves 1…and the beat goes on.
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Our Braves are now formulaic. Two games of a four game series are quite enough to predict the third. And … Finish Reading
What Is Going On With the Braves At The Trade Deadline? Well, We Got Jonny Venters.
Instead of a recap, I’ll just tell you that the Braves lost a baseball game yesterday, which has happened the majority of times they’ve taken the field in July. They are now 7-12 in July, by far their worst month … Finish Reading
Dodgers 8, Braves 2
If you’ve become a Braves fan during the last 25 years, you probably don’t feel about the Dodgers the way I do. Over the past 5 years, the team you had to beat to win the division has been the … Finish Reading
Kevin Maitan Is Not Doing So Hot
Baseball America put out a recap that you can read here.
They had this to say about Kevin Maitan:
… Finish ReadingMaitan arrived at spring training noticeably heavier, and he was listed at 222 pounds on Orem’s Opening Day roster,
JT Realmuto’s Team 9, JT Fakemuto’s Team 3
With Sam’s permission, since I forgot what day it was. Retirement does stuff like that to you.
So it’s a long season, and 1966 was no different. The 98th game saw the Braves drop a 4-3 game to the Cardinals … Finish Reading
Braves 12, Fish 1, Oh “That’s the way, we like it.”
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we like it, uh-huh, … Finish Reading
Nationals 6, Braves 2
The Nationals jumped on Mike Foltynewicz for 3 runs in the first, and that was all that was needed as the Braves could parlay their 14 hits into only 2 runs.
Foltynewicz battled back from there, holding the Nationals scoreless … Finish Reading