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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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Andddddd I was wrong. Hamilton is batting right now lol
Somebody aka mlb needs to do something about the Marlins. You can’t have a coach who says it’s okay to hit a player just because he hits homeruns every game against your team. I believe mlb should take drastic measures against the Marlins because it’s out of hand.
Did Mattingly actually say that?
With tonight's win and Washington's loss we're 6 up. If we go just 18-17 the rest of the way DC will have to go 25-12 to tie us. If we go 20-15 it's a near certainty we win The East. We do have a tough schedule coming up after this series, but we've won series against The Twins, The Mets and The Dodgers over the past couple of weeks.
Congrats to Freddie, he leads MLB in RBIs after banging out 4 tonight.
Send in one of the rookies when their best player comes in and have him plunk him one. Sure he’ll get tossed but it’s time to send a message to the Marlins that this **** can’t continue
That play Hechavarria made in the 9th was fantastic
It was as good an infield play as I've seen this year. In a 1 or 2 run game a play like that can be the difference in winning and losing. The snag was great, getting into position and making the throw was jaw dropping.
Agreed the speed he turns and makes a reasonable throw on the ground was the key. It seems like all of the position players that have come in have been able to have an immediate impact play. That has to help with team morale. Of course the bullpen has been the opposite, but those guys seem to be settling in.
The playoffs are going to be tough, with some good teams, but unlike last year I feel this team can make a run.
No doubt both are true. With the relief pitchers I'd much rather they struggle early then settle down as come out blazing and fizzle out though. Right now it's looking like we might have an excellent pen come playoff time.
Nice start tonight. Hechavarria with the bomb on his old team.
Julio pitched a gem tonight and Acuña homered. Great night for a series win and shutout.
It's not often a team scores 5 runs on just 3 hits, I'll take it though.
I know this has been mentioned before, but Julio is like an EKG machine with his starts. Great start last night, but the start before was the worst of his career.
@WCDawg Yeah, I saw that in the box score. Atlanta had just one man LOB. Miami had nine LOB. LMAO.
I sorta feel like that's justice deserved. Following numerous throws by Miami pitchers at our guy, Acuna.
His ER line in the starts since the break 0,2,1,0,2,3,1,6,0. More like my pulse rate, with the blip when we play the SEC West outside of the Hedges.
Overall, to me, he's pitched like an ace. No one goes undefeated as a starter, but for the last 6 weeks or so he's been close. I'll be happy if he can just keep it up - doesn't need to improve too much for me.
Honestly, Julio has been terrific since the beginning of May.
From May 5 - June 13, a stretch of 8 games, Julio posted a 0.81 ERA over 44.2 innings.
He gave up 13 runs over the next 2 games, just 8 innings pitched.
Then from June 29 until last night, a stretch of 10 games, he posted a 2.83 ERA over 54 innings. If you remove his aberration from last Thursday (1.1 innings, 7 ER), that number drops to a 1.88 ERA.
He has given up 16 home runs and has what, four games left? His career low since he became a full-time starter for homers allowed is 22. Julio has been our second most consistent pitcher this year, especially since he got going in May. I think he starts Game 3 in the NLDS.
@CTDawg I'm not so sure Julio isn't pitching game 2. But there isn't a huge separation between Kuechel, Fried, and Julio other than Dallas's playoff experience.
Even great pitchers ( Maddux being an exception) have a game here and there where they seemingly can't get anybody out. If we keep getting 7 good starts for every bad start from Julio he'll be a big net plus.
Checking in on how we're doing with Bobby Cox's approach of winning every series down the stretch.
We've gone 7-0-1 in series going back to July 26th. We split a 4 game series at The Marlins and won the other 7 outright. It's not like we've beaten lightweights either.