Last night didn’t go as expected and the Braves are 4-6 in their last 10. Tonight, it’s Stride or Die, and I’m hopeful that today marks another long winning streak to come. Still, the Braves have an 11 game cushion on both the Marlins and the Phillies.
Braves Went Public
The Braves stock split has finally occurred and the Braves are the only MLB publicly traded team. This deal also makes it much easier for the team to be purchased by some local tycoon and give this team the true payroll it deserves.
Transaction a Day AA
Both Dereck Rodriguez and Lucas Luetge could’ve chosen to become free agents, but returned to Gwinnett with hopes of being called up again at some point in the season. Rodriguez knows his value, knows how AA works, and will just wait in line for another injury and emergency call-up. And unfortunately for Luetge, if he were to choose free agency, he’d lose the rest of the 2023 money owed him.
Braves Lineup
A dear co-worker of mine who’s wife died way too early from cancer has found love once again and is moving to New York to be with his new girlfriend, so I’ll miss most of tonight’s game. It’s up to all of you to pull us through. Spencer Strider’s got this.
I thought the Sox were pulling some strange stuff last night early on when the Braves looked like they were cookin’. Then the offense went cold and the Sox rolled. I’m not sure I’d put anything past Alex Cora. It’d be nice if the Braves could just salt this one away early. I’m not letting the HR off of Daysbel sour me on him as it was a real Fenway cheapie.
Fried got scratched today with illness.
Glad we took out our best pitcher for a dude with a 6.00 era. Nice move Snit
Is the 7th inning now a mental thing with Strider?
Taking him out was dumb, dumb, dumb. I’d rather have him out there trying to get out of the jam than anybody we could bring in from the bullpen.
It isn’t like Johnson has a 6.00 era or anything. But if Ozzie makes a play it doesn’t matter
Duvall…lol…because of course
The Red Sox City Connect uniforms are hideous. They should lose the game based only on their jerseys. Are they yellow because of the Boston Duck Boats that tour the city?
I think they’re chiefly referencing the Boston Marathon, but the duck boats might have had something to do with it too.
Lord, Ozzie sure giveth and taketh.
Snit pulling all the right levers tonight.
I’m afraid the levers Snit was pulling got stuck.. That caught stealing from Wall was entirely uncalled for. You can’t give an out like that away at this point in the game.
100% agree TD.
To be fair, Johnson had a 6 ERA for a team with a 6.84 ERA in July. Colorado’s getting murdered with the new rules. So I didn’t have a problem with Strider getting pulled in the 7th. As great as Strider is, he has not been a guy who has consistently pitched deep into games. He had given up 3-4 hard hit balls in the 7th before being taken out, no? He looked gas in my eyes. The problem is that we’ve got a bunch of belly itchers and no pitchers in the bullpen, and half of our lineup has decided to go ice cold at the same time. And it’s bad timing because now we don’t know what the hell to do at the deadline, and if half our lineup remains in pumpkin status into mid-August, we’re gonna look pretty dumb.
I’m disappointed that I had a super busy first half of the year, and I wasn’t able to watch as much. Now I’m watching 6-7 innings every night after the ASB, and I missed all of the good times and now I’m watching a .500 ball club. Blech. This shall pass.
It also doesn’t help that the defense has been pretty terrible since the ASB. There have been lots of routine or relatively easy plays that guys have botched (mainly the infielders). If Ozzie had handled Chang’s grounder in the 7th last night, he would’ve easily been able to turn an inning-ending double play to keep it a 3-2 game. I know he was covering 2nd on the play, but the grounder had an exit velocity of 78.6, which hardly makes it a scorcher.
We are still the best team in baseball, so it’s whatever. The defense won’t be this bad for the remainder of the season, and the offense won’t be this quiet, either. But given all the injuries and lackluster pitching performances we’ve seen recently, the timing of all this has been unfortunate.
If we trade Soroka, I will burn Truist Park to the ground
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