Atlanta 6, Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles 1. Aside from Kelly Johnson’s uncharacteristic blundering in the infield tonight, you could not have asked for a much better game out of the Braves. Jeff Bennett redeemed himself for his last couple of performance with 4.2 strong innings on short rest. The bullpen acquitted itself well, [...]
Jon Heyman from SI, in a brilliant feat of investigative journalism, has finally unravelled the mystery that all of us in Atlanta have been puzzling over since the fall of 2005. Apparently, the Mike Hampton contract was a bad decision. Get this, Hampton has been injured and unable to pitch. This is truly the Daily [...]
Does anybody else find the description of Tim Hudson’s woes last night to be really, really eerie:
“I felt fine physically,” Hudson said. “Just one of those nights I went out there and just couldn’t get anything behind the ball. It was kind of a weird feeling. My heater [fastball] is normally a lot better than [...]
I’m not going to lie to you. I’ve been at bars with my back to the game for the last two nights. And let me tell you, I’m probably a lot happier for it. I looked up last night just long enough to see Will Ohman walk in the first of two runs. I was [...]
The nice thing about these early season records is that tonight we can go into the house of the division leader with a lot more confidence than if we were visiting the under .500 Mets or Phils. Things are getting pretty interesting in the bullpen, though. Interesting in the sense of the old Chinese curse. [...]
Adding depth to the starting pitching rotation over the winter was supposed to cut down on the number of Chuck James Classics - five innings then off to the bullpen. Yet, in 12 games, we’ve already had two starters go down before recording an out and only three times has our starter gone at least [...]
Nothing like facing the Nationals’ vaunted pitching staff to get your bats in order. Can’t help but feel like we need a win today to consider this a successful trip into our nation’s capital. A win today puts us back at .500 and gives us a nice little streak to ride into Miami to face [...]
Smoltz, who is apparently not broken, is going this afternoon against John Lannan, the Nationals’ 2007 Minor League Pitcher of the Year. (Does that even mean anything?) He had a good outing against the Redbirds in his first start of the season. Quick hits for today:
Does anyone else think that maybe Hampton’s biggest problem is [...]
The Braves found a way to blow another one-run game - this time by scoring two in the 9th. Tim Hudson was brilliant, again. He’s on his way to another Cy Young half-season. Unfortunately, we put some insurance on the board and won by 3, so we’ve still yet to win one of those all-important [...]
So, I’ve been noticing a lot of hopeless negativism around the Braves-o-sphere already. It’s been a rough nine games, we’ve had a lot of bad news and some heartbreakers, and our 3-6 record puts us at tie for last in the NL East with the Nationals. And we all know that the Nationals have cooties.
But [...]
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