Picking the Wrong Time to Swoon
Tuesday: Philadelphia 8, Atlanta 3. Wednesday: Philadelphia 7, Atlanta 3. The Braves have gone 2-6 over their last 8 games, losing the first two to the Phillies at a point when we could have pulled back within striking distance. The only thing worse tonight than the game itself was being completely surrounded by shrill, pre-teen girls.
Some notes on the ugly:
- Mark Kotsay has thrown up an 0-fer since rejoining the grown-up squad. Doesn’t look like anything to be concerned about, yet, and he looked spry bounding out into center starting the game this evening.
- Our reinvigorated, re-healthy lineup has had a hard time with the Phillies starting pitching which has been putrid for most of the season.
- The Braves were 0-3 on Wednesday night with the bases loaded. Jeff Francoeur got our only bases-loaded RBI by grounding into a double play.
- Ryan Howard has more hits than RBIs this season. He has 71 RBIs. He has 70 hits (all of them home runs). Of course, when Campillo pitched around Chase Utley to get to Howard, Howard made him pay with a 3-run bomb.
- Chipper is definitely not 100%. He barely even made an effort to run to first when he hit into a routine groundout. Frankly, we can lose 8-3 without Chipper. I’d rather see him take a few more days to completely heal.
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