Tag: 2013 Game Recaps

In their penultimate game of the regular season, Atlanta simultaneously lost a tough game to the Phillies and their control over Home Field Advantage in the National League. That’s not insignificant. It’s true that...

It was a good night for the Braves. Yes, the team’s offense continued its recent futility; Atlanta has .295 wOBA over the past month, which is awful and near the bottom of both leagues. But behind an excellent Kris Medlen,...

Meh. The Braves lost their third in a row last night on a walk-off Freddy Galvis home run. It may well have been heart-breaking if the game meant more than post-season positioning. Maybe it was anyway. Either way, the Nationals,...

A cynic would note that wins are largely unimportant at this point. Atlanta’s NL East lead is practically insurmountable. It would definitely be great to secure home-field advantage in the NL – the Braves now have a...

The Braves have not reacted well to Jason Heyward’s injury. For the third straight game in St. Louis, the offense failed to materialize, the pitching was pedestrian, and the Braves lost. That, incidentally, makes for 5...

So that’s what losing to the Nationals feels like. It had been awhile: since May 31st, actually. On that night Stephen Strasburg injured himself and Craig Stammen got the win. Last night, Stephen Strasburg got himself...

For all of the talk about how the Braves need a top-of-the-rotation starter, the guys currently under contract are doing pretty damn well. Last night, Mike Minor pitched a gem to shut down a potent Cardinals offense. Today,...

The good news is the Braves scored 6 runs again. The bad news is the other team scored 10 runs. The bad news outweighs the good, sadly. Things started well, as Atlanta jumped out to a 4-0 lead. Dan Uggla provided the big blow...

Mike Minor has pitched a few great games this season, without question. Yet of all of them, today’s gem was my favorite. The game started off the way too many Braves games have begun of late: with the opponent taking the...

You wouldn’t know it by looking at the final score, but this was actually a very close game until the bottom of the 8th inning. Only then did the Braves blow it open and, in the process, leave legions of fans breathing...

For the second day in a row, the Braves were shut out by the 3rd-worst pitching staff in baseball. Of course, this shouldn’t be that surprising. Many of you will recall that the Braves were swept by the Padres not too...

That. Kicked. Ass. In a game that promised from the get-go to be the kind of stomach-punch loss that we Braves fans know only too well – they get lucky; we do a handful of stupid things; they get lucky some more –...

Well that was interesting. The Braves eeked out a win on a night in which Justin Upton laid down a sac bunt, Clayton Kershaw pinch ran for Hanley Ramirez, and Kris Medlen hit the ultimate game-winning home run. Basically, just...

It was only the Mets, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t incredibly satisfying. If anything, that it was the Mets only makes nights like tonight sweeter. This evening the Braves completed two victories in the span of...

Everybody knows what happens when the Braves start out slowly against a soft-tossing lefty: the lineup collectively curls up into the fetal position, the manager begins to “get creative,” and the hometown fans find...

So this weekend has pretty quickly turned to crap. Today’s game featured the biggest mismatch of the series in terms of pitching matchups – Paul Maholm v. Madison Bumgarner – and it basically played out exactly...

Well, this weekend is not off to a great start. The Braves have found warmer weather in the upper Middle West, true, but both their bats and arms have nevertheless gone cold. Today the Tigers trotted out Rick Porcello, the same...

So, a 10-2 win in Denver is more or less a 5-0 win anywhere else, which makes Julio Teheran’s turn in the order last night all the more impressive. Yes, the offense hit more home runs, which is to be expected, but the real...