One strike away and we met our match. A team that over the last two nights has an XBH percentage of their hits at around 85 took full advantage of that new life in the ninth and turned a one … Finish Reading
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Cleveland TWO…No problem!
I still love Touki, probably always will but…would have to think he’s due a longish stint back down, unfortunately. What a pity, we were all so amped up but it became a farce in a hurry.
So the weather gave … Finish Reading
Cleveland ONE. Can we try again please?
This was a fun game to watch and enjoy for 5 plus innings. Then Julio passed the 100 pitch mark, in came Jessie ‘let me get at ’em’ Biddle and we were wiped all round for 6 runs and looked … Finish Reading
SATURDAY SATURDAY TOUKI’S ALL RIGHT.CHIP IS NOT.
- Finally. We have our first Saturday night victory of the new season which you know who will help us celebrate in the traditional manner. It was a great game to watch, full of incident and good things following bad but
Comeuppance…Braves 2 Marlins 4
We had that entitled look about us tonight, the expectation perhaps that another win against Miami was as good as done with half the game gone, a two run lead and our pitching good enough to shut them down. Last … Finish Reading
The tying run is at the plate…really… Braves 6 Phillies 8
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It was, it really was. It had been like watching a prize fight all afternoon. Some knockdowns but as many recoveries until the final round was near and we seemed to be out of it, tired and looking it. … Finish Reading
BORING PRE-DAWN BASEBALL……Did you have a fun Friday evening?
Around 3.25 this morning Alex Wood came on to pitch the top of the 18th innings in Game 3 of the World Series. The Score had been stuck at 2-2 since the 13th. Fox had long since run out of … Finish Reading
Above all else, it’s the game.
Watching the fourth Yankees/Sox game two nights ago morph from a dull start into a splendid climax came this reminder – above all, it’s the game that holds us. Not this game, not that game. Any game. Always was, after … Finish Reading
one sixty one…Nola 3 Braves zero
mea culpa…the days wither down to a precious few…eyes and thoughts are diverted to other games occurring simultaneously whose results may affect us…but Sunday morning still finds me in possession of memories from our game that are deeply etched so … Finish Reading
Atlanta Braves 2018 National League East Champions
We’d been around too long with this bunch to know it couldn’t be this easy, right through to the end, surely? And it wasn’t, we went from laugher to white knuckle in a matter of minutes, late – just like … Finish Reading