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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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Soroka finally had a bad game. 5 earned runs on 10 hits in 5 innings. He just didn't have control over his pitches. His next start will be important, can he shrug this game off. I think he can but you never know with these humans.
Thank God for the Braves' bats, because they've been bailing out some shaky pitching of late. I'm interested to see how Newcomb pitches in place of Gausman coming up
CTDawg Soroka and Julio have been great recently, hopefully this game was just a bleep on the way to a great season for Soroka. No doubt we need a couple more starters to come around though.
Freddie and Markakis can do it. When the pendulum swings back to getting on base vs occasional homers, I think we'll see more Wade Boggs and Tony Gwynn types re-emerge. Didn't mean to exclude Rod Carew.
Mike wasn't awful last night, but he didn't have his usual control, no control, no command. You can have control and not have command, but you can't have command without control. He was missing on way too many pitches to dictate to hitters. When you struggle with control you'll leave some pitches in places they can be spanked.
Again my interest is in MS's next start. If he has the make up of Maddux he will be back to form, barring an injury we're not aware of. He won't be great if he doesn't have good control. He relies on movement, control and command. What he has is just as impressive as Verlander's power, but it can be more fleeting.
yeah he had an off night. The Pirates might have seen him a few days ago in Pittsburgh. Not sure if he threw a game up there. Even Mad Dog had games where he struggled and some where he just got trashed. All through the game I watched his facial expressions and body language. Hard to tell what was happening on the field by watching that stuff. I think Reitsma did a great job with him. Maybe we should get him to be a pitching coach.
Donm. Maddux had an insanely great record when he got 4 runs of support. He didn't have many games where he gave up 5 earned runs over 5 innings. Then again Soroka is just 21 years old, Greg wasn't great till he was around 23 years old.
Julio looked really good today guys. 6 innings, just the one earned run. Over his last 8 starts, he's 3-0 with a 0.81 ERA. Holy cow
CTDawg. Free cake and bourbon is ''really good'', Julio has been MIGHTY GOOD lately.
Mac. Is. BACK. Game of the year so far.
Phillies Phan thread is a great read after this game. Go Braves!!!!
Ol' AARP! What a game!