AJ Smith-Shawver got his first win last night and the Braves turn to Jared Shuster tonight, who’s carrying a 5.05 ERA on the year. Much of the inflated ERA has been influenced by his 1st 2 outings where he pitched 8.2 innings and gave up 8 earned runs. Since then, he’s been much more palatable as a 5th starter with an ERA of 4 flat and an even more palatable .608 OPS against. The Rockies will counter with Dinelson Lamet whose surname should actually carry an “n” between the e&t because that’s what he make Rocky fans feel when he gets on the mound as he’s rocking a +10 ERA in 21.2 innings of work.
Braves Lineup
Sean Murphy gets the night off and Ozzie Albies stays in the 2-hole.
Piece for The Bar
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Braves Backing up the Backups, Sign Jesus Aguilar
Aguilar played a game in the FCL and went 0-4. After a strong 2021, Aguilar has had poor seasons back to back. Still, he’s only 32 and carried an .801 career OPS through 2021. Like Anthopoulos and the Braves analytical team did with Orlando Arcia, if they can identify a flaw in Aguilar’s swing and get him fixed, that could be a really strong bat off the bench in the playoffs.
Michael Soroka Starts for Gwinnett and Wall Breaks Streak
Michael Soroka will try to regain a place on the Braves active roster with another start in Nashville tonight. His last outing, Soroka went 6 innings and only gave up 1 run on 3 hits and collected 6 strikeouts. Until last night, Forrest Wall had started the year with 38 straight stolen bases but collected his first CS of the year. The great thing about streaks is that they can always start up again.
Alright boys. Let’s get it.
Nice start, folks…
Quite a poke by Travis there.
These Braves sure hit some bombs this year.
The Braves have more than twice the amount of 110+ MPH balls off the bat than the 2nd place team.
Great start. Travis throws out a would be base stealer in the top of the first, and pounds two homer in the 110 EV range. Unreal…and how about that peg from Matt Olson on the ball that got away to nail Jones at second.
Also, the Braves are only 4 homers away from tying the record of 450+ ft homers in a season (during the Statcast era). It’s mid-June. This team is hitting the ball historically hard.
They do hit the ball hard when they hit it!
Three K’s for Ben Heller in his Braves debut! Another AA wonder-find!
Ben Heller looks nasty. Looks like another genius AA acquisition.
Edit: Jinx!
Heller good. Told y’all.
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I dunno. I think the Rockies may be worse than either the A’s or the Tigers. At least on the road.
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