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The battle resumes.#BattleATL pic.twitter.com/de7DD4uYt2
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Your 2021 Atlanta #Braves NLCS Roster:#BattleATL pic.twitter.com/Vcn18qUTqg
— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) October 16, 2021
Game 1.
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Tonight’s #Dodgers NLCS Game 1 lineup at Braves: pic.twitter.com/nB2RKDUdVV
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Joctober in the house ?#BattleATL pic.twitter.com/aBYzenXIXn
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Pongan atención. ?#PorLaA | #BattleATL pic.twitter.com/kaLh5cxw1Y
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On the mound for Game 2 of the NLCS:#BattleATL pic.twitter.com/c76is2nHlr
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So, it seems like Morton is being pushed to G3 since he’s more seasoned for a hostile crowd. Hmm…
@1
Well, also it gives him a couple extra days after going on three days’ rest, and it lines him up for Game 7. I approve, as I said the other day.
Pujols is starting?? I completely forgot about him
Let’s give em the ol’…
GO BRAVES!
Should be a raucous crowd, would be great to get an early lead.
Random prediction – Adam Duval 3-run homer.
The crowd is going to be insane. Lets rock this sh!t!!
Let’s Rock n’ Roll!!
Prediction: Braves win 4 – 1
I’ve loved the Braves for 30 year and want them to win. But the chop is so dumb and needs to stop.
Woooooo
ABE baseball!
In his series preview Michael urged the Braves to attempt more stolen bases. I wasn’t sure that was a good idea. Well, Rosario’s theft of second led directly to the first run of the game. Good call!
Why pitch to Taylor with a base open?
Fried’s command was off the first 2 innings.
I detest the Dodgers so much.
I hope Max hits a HR.
crap
I hate him so much. We should never pitch to him.
Fried gave up Taylor’s single on an 0-2 pitch and Smith’s homer on an 0-2 pitch.
Huge Will Smith fan. The actor. This imposter is really getting on my last nerve.
Way to being on your way to your worst start in over a month, Minimus Fried.
Don’t shake off TDA and it would still be 1-1.
Offense can’t get it going against a bullpen game, what a surprise.
Of all of the Will Smith’s we certainly have the worst one
Doomed.
Not a fan of batting 2 LHBs back to back.
ugh, these freaking pitching changes. One of them has GOT to burn them.
I love the shoes.
HOORAY!
Riley!
Not doomed!
Riley out here like Maeglin bringing about the fall of Gonsolin!
Riley out here pricking Gonsolin bubbles.
What a year for Austin Riley. Remembering how overmatched he looked in last years NLCS and now he ropes a tater in game 1. Amazing progress and adjustments from him.
Mmmm should guys be up in the pen? Not a lineup you like to seee the third time.
30 — Well, he did hit the game winning home run in Game 1 last year. But I agree with your point.
Haha “Cat Scratch Fever”
31 – You’re right, but the rest of the series was ugly. Last year Riley was a dude who could crush a mistake. Now he’s smacking good pitches around the park. Dude’s been putting in work.
Might be time to get another pitcher in there. 3rd time through and Fried doesn’t have his best stuff.
Very nervous to see Fried vs these specific 3 in the next inning! Ahhhhh playoff baseball I can’t handle…
Alright, I think it’s time to slap Max on the butt and send him to the showers.
Nice bunt…haha
Counterpoint: I think it’s once again dumb to activate the bullpen at this point. There’s just no reason.
Walk Betts, set up the double play. Not doing it is dumb decision #2 IMO.
Fried only had 81 pitches …why ??
Yeah!!!
Got away with the second thing. We’ll still have to see on the first.
GG, Death star!
Matzek is nails, man.
We need a hit or three or four.
No walks in the whole game so far. The hitters have been aggressive, but the pitching has been real good.
I would have let Matzek pitch to Seager.
Duvall has no HR since sept 20…. pump that man full of insulin and get him going!
On a related question, why is the second most suggested duvall question on google: “Is Adam Duvall diabetes?”.
Sad lineup 🙁
Saddens me to see that we can hang with them but apparently not overtake them, like previous years. I miss Ronald and Soroka…( and pre domestic abuse Ozuna. and Soler.)
Pretty easy inning for Luke. If we don’t score, I’d send him back out. Doubt Snit agrees with me though.
I thought the dumbest move we made in the off-season was to keep Jackson on the roster. I couldn’t have been more wrong. He has possibly been our most consistent reliever throughout the year.
Please score some runs!!
@48 Duvall is diabetic but I don’t know why people are searching about that.
@50 Agree about Jackson
@48 – Give ‘em a chance here, Carl. I think this is actually the best lineup 1-8 plus bench they’ve had in the postseason any of the past 4 years. Now, that says more about the holes in some past rosters, but they can get some runs going.
Man, next year with Acuna back, Freddie back, and one more star bat could really make this a scary lineup.
@52 Just getting my hopes low since they were broken in 1996. It’s my MO.
“Here comes Will Smith”
Have scarier words ever been spoken?
Feels like they are going to have to run into one like Freddie did to win.
Uh, oh…..Will Smith and a tie game. What could go wrong?
Oh I hear you, Carl. I’m right there with you. Heart been broken too many times. But it’s still game 1!
If this game goes to extras, the Dodgers are running out of pitchers.
For once, it’s the other team who makes a baserunning mistake.
Nice to see someone else make a base running mistake for once.
OMG, please braves, don’t let that gift go to waste!
All right! Gonna have to walk it off, boys. Now would work.
Chris Taylor: the new Adam Duvall
Come on offense!! This is it.
Another gift from the baseball Gods.
Geez , Freeman looked like garbage tonight. Golden sombrero.
Albies bloop hit!
Yessssddddssssssssssssssssss!
Yesssssdsdddddddddsssssssssssz
Ydsssssszzzzssweessssss
Baseball gods smiled on them tonighg. Baserunning mistake, and bloop hit.
Ozzie!!
Well, you can’t spell MVP without Riley.
Riley!!! How about them WPA???
Ozzie might’ve scored from first on that.
OH MY GOSH
Riley! Again!
Riley!!!!
There ya go! Whew! Couldn’t lose that one.
Y’ALL
THIS INFIELD RIGHT HERE!
Outstanding! Woohoo!
This is fun!
@65 It’s impossible. Don’t even try it.
Austin! The great thing about beating the Dodgers in their bullpen game is their bullpen is gassed for tomorrow.
Austin M-F-ing Riley!!
What a game!!! What a year.
I hope nothing is wrong with Freddie. He looked awful tonight.
Got up just in time for the last few innings. What a finish. Glad I named my new puppy Riley.
Let’s get the next one, too. Go Braves.
There is no doubt Riley was tonight’s MVP. A HR and a walk-off hit. But there is no fault for Max. He was great and kept it real.
Considering Duvall’s baserunning in the NLDS, it was really kind of nice to see the other guys make the critical mistake.
I also think Roberts made a mistake using Jansen before Treinen. That seemed very odd to me.
I have full faith and confidence in Jethro vs Mad Max.
Yes, I believe Ozzie would have scored from 1st on that. Let’s go Braves!!!!!!!!
Fine choice for the pup, Timo.
@76 – It will be really interesting by game 5 if the Dodgers have to use their big bullpen guns in both games 3 and 4. And seeing Urias only once on full rest ought to be better than seeing him twice.
I have a feeling Roberts will be getting creative with Scherzer, Buehler, and Urias.
@83, Dodgers aren’t the only team that will have to worry about overusing their big bullpen guns. Matzek, Jackson, and Smith have all pitched (with great results) in all 5 postseason games, right? The Dodgers have had 7 postseason games, so maybe that’ll put a similar amount of strain on their deeper bullpen.
I was going to name my new kitten Ozzie but he was already named Archie so I ended up just letting him keep that name.
The good news about this game is that the Braves hit .500 with runners in scoring position. Even better, everyone in scoring position scored. But methinks we need a few more players in scoring position if we want to win this thing.
@84 the main three got a good amount of rest in between series.
I’m more concerned about the rest of the bullpen, which basically hasn’t pitched since the regular season.
In my view, the most important thing that the team did tonight was that the pitching kept enough runs off the board to stay competitive, and the offense scored enough runs to win. If the team can keep that up, it could win some more ballgames.
Only caught the last two innings. But I saw the rundown, the steal and the walk-off.
Will Smith is the winner!
I don’t disagree, AAR, but note that a lot of the Flying Wallendas have ended up maimed or dead.
Boy oh boy, the LA Times recap of this game sure is something else: https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2021-10-16/dodgers-chris-taylor-braves-nlds-game-1-world-series
Some highlights:
“In what should have been yet another strong step in their seemingly preordained journey back to the World Series on Saturday, the Dodgers staggered, stumbled and ended up on their backs…”
“Yeah, the Dodgers let the Braves off the hook.”
“The loss was made worse because it was accompanied by the tomahawk chop, that racist appropriation of native American culture…” (Not getting political on this one, I don’t want to discuss it, I just thought it was a fitting sample of the article’s tone.)
“In all, it was a Dodgers letdown against a team that had 18 fewer wins and scored 135 fewer runs.”
The way the article reads makes it sound like “Ho hum dee dum the Dodgers made a few oopsie-oes and lost to the dumb hicks on the Atlanta junior varsity baseball team but oh well, we’ll win the next four.” I hope this mindset isn’t very representative of many Dodger fans, but I don’t really know. Either way, I hope this series is a very rude awakening for a whole lot of Dodger fans!
@91 Ugh, just when I think I can’t despise the Dodgers any more than I do.
His tweets are offensive too:
Ugh, elitist Dodger hacks of writers. Best to ignore. Hope they underestimate us all the way and we win the series in LA. That would be sweet.
Great win. Especially love the stolen bases. We can’t be too reliant on the home-run to score, so anytime we can manufacture a run or two will be huge. I think Scherzer can be run on as well.
@92 Wow, I hadn’t seen that Tweet yet! I guess if you’re from LA or San Fran, any remotely clean public area looks like a “sterile shopping mall” in comparison. Waffle House is certainly a fitting place for them to congregate, as we all know that a soggy 1:00 AM waffle is truly the breakfast of champions….
I got substantially less upset with that article and tweet when I realized it was Plaschke. He’s basically a professional troll.
Greetings from Athens, Ga.
Helluva win & HBTD!
@91:
No surprise, Plaschke was whining on Twitter about it too:
Check out that 1.1K responses to 293 ‘likes’ ratio.
Gosh, I hope the crow was good at Waffle House for a douche like that. Makes the win all the sweeter.
Efficiently recapped, because I assume you saw it already.