Month: September 2021

tl;dr: We won! See you all next week!

A Grand Slam Ain’t Nothin’ But Four Runs

So when Manny Machado hit a grand slam off Huascar Ynoa in the bottom of the fifth … Finish Reading

After last night’s 7-2 win over the Phillies, the Braves lead is four and a half games with five left on the schedule. The magic number is 1.  They haven’t clinched the division, so there was not a champagne celebration … Finish Reading

Charlie Morton and Zach Wheeler were as advertised. Will Smith was (nearly) as feared. The slightly better team won by just enough. What are you expecting, a detailed recap of a seven-hit game?

If I were JonathanF, of course, I’d … Finish Reading

Will Smith threw a hitless 9th to pick up his 35th save.

After walking the bases loaded, and with a little help from the home plate umpire. A couple of borderline strike calls on Fernando Tatis and Trent Grisham were … Finish Reading

What was going through your mind when Manny Machado hit that grand slam to put the Padres up 7-3? Visions of 2011? Thinking about the Phillies winning the division? Wondering what was going on with Huscar Ynoa? All of the … Finish Reading

Max Fried, y’all. 

I mean what more is there to say? The Braves needed somebody to grab this game (and season) by the scruff of the neck after back-to-back tough losses in the middle of a grueling road trip, and … Finish Reading

Let’s Talk About Duvall

[The pics are above are members of the Duvall MVP Conversation, all of them holding something they could hurt you with.]

So Adam Duvall has 114 hits and 109* RBIs with a week-and-a-half to go in … Finish Reading

In the words of Ian Anderson (the other one), “And the train it won’t stop going; No way to slow down.” The Braves have put the Hammer down and are rolling again.  Wednesday night in the desert, the Braves defeated … Finish Reading

I thought this would happen…back at the end of June.

Boring in the best way. If you threw these two teams into OOTB a hundred times, it would probably spit out something like this game quite a few times. (I went to bed after the fifth — the old grey mare … Finish Reading