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GO BRAVES!!!
First person to figure out what's up with baseball will become a zillionaire and rule the planet.
Surely, an 8-2 lead is safe going Into the bottom of the eighth of today's game? Nope. The Rockies scored seven runs to take a 9-8 lead going into the ninth inning. The Rockies had five straight hits after two were out.
Possibly the worst pitching performance of the season.
whew I’m with ya. That was rough.
@markboknecht said:
Surely, an 8-2 lead is safe going Into the bottom of the eighth of today's game? Nope. The Rockies scored seven runs to take a 9-8 lead going into the ninth inning. The Rockies had five straight hits after two were out.
Possibly the worst pitching performance of the season.
Can finally watch them on TV…..Bally and Comcast got their sh*t together and then this!?!?
I’m done…….
Go Dawgs!
Yogi figured it out long ago. " There's one word that describes baseball: you never know".
Seeing them fall apart just so very often these days is both something that I am not accustomed to seeing from the Atlanta Braves anymore, and it is just plain so very extra sad to see it as it is happening too. I DON'T WANT TO GET USED TO IT AGAIN!!!!!! That was way back when I was just a kid, during the days of Dale Murphy, Bob Horner, and Phil Niekro!!!!
GO BRAVES!!!
Was working around the house and saw they had a big lead.
Checked the score later and saw where they fell apart. Unreal.
This might be fatal. The teams around them in the standings are winning and the Braves are not.
@christopherules Yeah, being a Braves fan in the 80's was tough. We had some great hitters: Murphy, Horner, and Claudell Washington, just no pitching. Finished last in our division 5 seasons over a six-year span.
Same for the Braves when they first moved to Atlanta in 1966. Aaron and Matthews,, Rico Carty, Felipe Alou. I think that squad had seven players that hit twenty or more homeruns. Lots of hitting, just no pitching. We finished fifth in the National league that year.
Aaron had a down year that year as I recall it, hitting just .279. But 44 homeruns and 128 rbi's.
That's a down year?
The Braves are really two organizations. Pre 1991 and Post 1991.
From 1966 to 1990 the Braves made the playoffs exactly twice. 1969 and 1982. Both times they were swept in the playoffs. So prior to 1991 they had never won a playoff game. Most years they were not just bad….but the worst team in Baseball.
Post 1991 the team has had a lot of success. 2WC's lots of NL titles and NL East\West titles. Should they have more WC's? Yes. But Baseball can be a funny game in a short series.
Bobby Cox is the main reason for the change. He came back as GM in '87 or somewhere around there. And laid the groundwork for the '91 breakout season. The Braves have been a winning franchise ever since.
I began my Atlanta Braves fandom around 1976. I turned 13 years old that spring, in May. That was when Dale Murphy was a rookie. However, it wasn't all bad…. because later on that same year in the fall???
THAT WAS ALSO THE YEAR THAT GEORGIA SHUT OUT ALABAMA 21-0!!!!!!
GO DAWGS!!!!
Rookie Schwellenbach on the mound tonight against the Angels. ERA is 3.95, but 77 strikeouts in 70.2 innings pitched which is pretty good.
Meanwhile…Fried isn't Fried any more…wonder if they will just let him go in free agency after this season.
Some team will make outlandish offer, never fails.
Either he gets in the gym and puts on some weight or I think it’s fine if he leaves.