Game 126 Recap: Padres 12, Braves 5, Chipper 0

Surely they’ll win. I mean, the odds are there, and we can’t get swept by the Padres, right? As big a Chipper fan as i am, it wouldn’t hurt my feelings one bit if i showed up to the Ted and he wasn’t in the lineup. He needs a break Jimmy Rollins style.

Chipper has looked terrible at the plate. He isn’t patient and it seems like he’s trying to pull everything. It almost looks careless. I think it’s time to give him 2 or 3 games off. He was quoted as saying he was “tired” because he hadn’t played this many games at this point in the season since 2003. It’s frustrating as a fan because he is getting payed 10 mil a year, and you think that since he is a professional and he signed the contract, you expect 162 games. He also said that in the past he has hit better after he spent some time on the DL. So do we need to come up with phantom injuries for him in the future so he can sit out 15 days ever so often? It stinks when your “star” player only wants to play about 100 games a year. Usually we would say we aren’t as good with him out of the lineup. But right now i think for a few games we would be just as good or better without him.

with the way the Phillies and Colorado are playing there is no way we catch them winning at a .667 clip (and I would guess we aren’t going to be playing that well for the rest of the year).

I’m trying really, really, really hard to repress that memory. Let’s not speak of that game again. Ever.

Can you cancel a MLB package and get a prorated refund?

Have the Padres swept anyone else this year?
If not, please don’t let it be us tonight.

Here’s a stat: the Braves left a whopping 18 men on base last night. 18! (hey, at least the Padres left 27) Every single batter, starter or not, left at least 1 man on base with two exceptions; Infante who pinch hit to lead off the ninth, and McCann who was the offense. Both Chipper and GA left 4 men on base (thats almost half in #3 and #5 hitters) and Church, LaRoche, and Prado each came in with 2 men left on base (that’s your 2, 7, and 8 hitters, but we all know how much better the bottom of the lineup is right now). The only people to only leave 1 man on base were Yunel and Matty. Here’s another stat: every batter struck out at least once (relief pitchers excluded) except for Yunel, McCann and Infante, resulting in 7 strikeouts. Its not possible to score if you leave that many men on base and strike out that many times.

but still you never know, especially the way our schedule shakes out. idk but I think there’s still one of those 9 game stretches where we play the Phillies 6 times.

but this series from hell definitely hurts, this last game from the 7th inning on IMO is irrelevant (any game Manny Acosta pitches in is basically already over). the real problem is the trend that the team is following, scoring runs early and then going to sleep for the rest of the game, but even more scary, our giving up huge innings out of nowhere (to scrub lineups frankly, injured Mets + SD)
  
I don’t usually believe in luck being a significant factor over the course of the season but if the Braves don’t wanna just fade away down the stretch were gonna need a shit ton of it.

But this game was almost an exact mirror of the type of game we saw in Baltimore during the “TC meetup” game. Braves nurse a small lead, KK lets some batters on, Bobby with the quick pull, EOF has a rare meltdown, but Bobby doesn’t pull him until he gets one more out or one more run, but he gives up one more run, and then goes to Moylan to stop the bleeding. But then Manny Acosta is allowed on the premises, and does what he does best. The only difference is that I had the option of turning off the TV this time.

Kinda eerie, tell you the truth. But hey, it happens from time to time.

It will be interesting to see if the Braves are PO’ed enough to come out fighting tonight, or so depressed that they look lethargic…again.