Category: Game Threads 2013

Atlanta Braves vs. Florida Marlins – Box Score – September 11, 2013 – ESPN Other than one bad-ass swing from the obviously-rejuvenated Evan Gattis, this game wasn’t much fun to watch. Mike Minor was not...

== the lovely Lady of Shallot is she for sale or is she not? well, certainly my friend but then that might depend how many euros have you got?     One hundred and thirty three million dollars..cash, no...

Lysergical acid was dropped as aging relievers are shopped confusing the viewer and certain to skewer his judgment if ever they’ve flopped.     on the more serious matter of extensions and the like… the...

another Shea memory, prompted by Ububba’s thread… sometime in the late seventies Davey Johnson, technically, worked for me…he was retired as a player and not yet a ML manager but it was obviously...

The summer when I was 10 years old, my mother shipped me off to a sports camp in Fayetteville, N.C. The first week was tennis instruction, second week was basketball and the third week was baseball. I would stay with a friend...

ESPN Box Score Streak’s back to one everybody! This game was satisfying in a lot of ways. First off, Freddie Freeman homered for the first time in I think 2 years. And after a remarkably lack-luster performance yesterday,...

Editor’s note: This should have gone up yesterday, the fifth anniversary of Skip Caray’s death. I apologize for not putting it up sooner. “Like lambs to the slaughter, the Braves take the field.” For many Braves...

I love this team! Well, Brandon Beachy is back and let’s just say he threw a lot of strikes. Beachy went three and two-thirds, gave up seven runs on eight hits walking one and striking out five. In reality, he would have...

ESPN Box Score Fun game! Fun series! Allofasudden, the ills of last week’s roadtrip seem so petty and distant! The Braves completed the sweep with another strong pitching performance, this time coming from Kris Medlen. He...

When I moved from Georgia to the New York City area in the spring of 1990, the Mets were good, the Yankees were bad… and the Braves? They just seemed hopeless. As I prepared to see them play at Shea Stadium that July 20,...

ESPN Box Score So this is, as they say, a good time for a break. In football, I hear people talk about “injury cascades” sapping your depth at a position, and that’s what’s happened to the Braves in the...

ESPN Box Score A disappointing end to a disappointing series to close out a very disappointing week of Braves baseball. This was the second consecutive divisional series the Braves lost. Wasn’t this supposed to be the...

ESPN Box Score Remember how earlier in the year, every time Justin Upton stepped to the plate, you thought he was going to hit it out? I remember marveling at how strong and compact his swing was. It blew me away how much power...

Since there was no game last night (let’s hope the boys got some much needed rest and home cooking), and tonight’s game against the Arizona Grits is the occasion for a re-staging of last year’s Chipper Jones retirement...

A few days ago, Rany Jazayerli wrote this: As a fan of the franchise, their performance over the last 20 years has been an unending tragedy. But as a fan of baseball, and moreover as someone who has been intimately involved with...

ESPN Box Score The bats have been struggling. Well, that’s probably a bit of an understatement. The bats have been downright awful. Early on this season, Justin Upton carried the team when no one was doing anything. And...

ESPN Box Score So I’ve been on the road lately. I got home from the West coast Friday night and hadtime to do laundry and get some sleep before checking in (24 hrs ahead of time) for my next flight. A wedding and a metro...

I was struck by a post over at the Red Sox blog Fire Brand of the AL that was a history of the Red Sox’s drafts under Theo Epstein and Ben Cherington. So I thought that I’d do the same, and recap the Braves’...