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Braves Ongoing Season Comments Thread..
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Washington lost to the Twins last night and have now lost 6 of their last 8 games. Braves magic number is now 9.
The Braves have 16 games left on the schedule, Washington was 19 left on theirs. If we go 8-8 they'll have to go 19-0 to tie us, that won't happen. So let's say we go just 4-12, they would have to go 15-4 to tie us.
Obviously we're in the driver's seat. I'd like to win 100, which would require going 10-6 the rest of the way.
100 is a nice round # and one not often achieved.
Bit disappointed to see Fried get shelled early last night, but he settled down after that bad first inning. At this point I'm comfortable with a playoff rotation of Soroka-Keuchel-Teheran and perhaps even a rejuvenated Folty as a 4th starter if it comes to that.
He was high and close to center of the plate on several of those gofer balls. I'm not worried about him though. Truth is he's been very fortunate to have the run support he's gotten this season. If Soroka had the offense he's had he'd have about 18 wins. My guess is the playoff rotation will be Soroka Julio, Keuchel and Fried with Folty being the long reliever that is usually needed in postseason play. I won't be surprised if Keuchel has the best postseason. He has good experience and he's relaxed.
Gun to your head: who's your 4th playoff starter? Anybody trust Folty if we're down 2-1 in the series?
Fried is my 4th man up at this time. If Folty has a couple more very good starts he might jump in there though. One reason I would go with Fried if it's close is Folty has the stuff to fill any role in the pen. If a starter bombs in early innings he could step in. Also Fried has a very calm demeanor, that can serve a starting pitcher well in a playoff atmosphere.
Chris Martin throws an immaculate inning tonight, 5th in Braves history and 4th overall this year. Only a 100 in MLB history. Flowers threw the ball into the stands because he thought they happen every couple of weeks. Speaking of Flowers, his bat made up the runs tonight, but had passed balls galore. That is getting old.
Gotta love Martin's immaculate inning. Kuechel is rolling. The bats are hot. I don't know if we have the horses to beat LA or Houston, but man what a fun year this has been.
You'd think there would have been far more than 100 9 pitch 3 strike out innings in the 150 or so years of MLB. To put it in perspective there have been 302 no hitters in MLB history.
Alright, the last series The Braves lost was a 2 gamer against KC July 23/24. Since then the team has 10 series wins and 3 ties. This series will add either a tie or win depending on the outcome of tomorrow's game.
Keuchel has been great over his past 4 games, hopefully he doesn't use up all the magic before the playoffs.
I’ll say this about flowers behind the plate. He focuses a lot more on pitch framing than receiving, and this is why he sometimes looks really bad. He tries to steal strikes and sometimes just whiffs the pitch. But he steals strikes really well, and the metrics love his framing ability. And framing is considered to be a really important skill for catchers, much more so than throwing out runnners for example (Tbh I’m not super sure how they quantify or weigh it but I do know from other message boards framing plays a big part in catcher FWAR).
Dont think he’s been very good this year, but hope that helps keep things in context for you guys.
Speaking of balls and strikes, the umpire tonight was bass ackwards on a lot of calls. He called balls strikes and strikes balls more than I've seen in awhile.
I missed tonight's game, but I'm sure he couldn't hold a candle to Eric Gregg. RIP.
In a single at bat in the 8th inning tonight's ump called 3 strikes balls and a ball a strike over 4 straight pitches.
FYI, If The Braves go just 7-8 the rest of the regular season Washington will have to win out to tie for the division title (18-0)
Just another reason balls and strikes should be called by the system of triangulated lasers already in place. The umps would still have a role, just not the power to steal games.
Not sure why framing "fools" umpires. It seems so obvious on TV.
A lot different perspective on where we the fans and the umpire view pitches from. But last night I agree with @WCDawg, so many strikes were called balls and vice versa.
I didn't catch the whole game, but thought Flowers did not frame the ball well at all last night.
It makes no sense why it's not in place at this day and age. I figured it might take a few years since being established in other sports like tennis, but now it's been forever making me wonder if they'll ever change it. Maybe the league likes the vast differences in strike zones from game to game? One ump has a small strike zone, the next day it's a big zone, next day a wide zone, next day a tall zone, and then yesterday a zone that's moving all over the place.