Atlanta Braves Postseason Pace
by gondeee on Sep 24, 2010 8:00 AM EDT
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PrintWell at least Los Angeles and Arizona helped us out by beating San Diego and Colorado. The Rockies have dropped four in a row, so they're on just as bad of a skid as the Braves. Meanwhile the Padres and Giants keep inching closer to the Braves in the Wild Card while switching places atop the NL West.
It's kind of interesting right now that four of the playoff contenders have almost identical records. The Braves, Giants, and Reds all have 86-and-67 records, while the Pads are 85-and-67. This thing is tight!
The Nats finally announced their Saturday starter, Yunesky Maya. They still haven't announced Sunday's starter. The Braves beat him, and we can only hope that he balks in the winning run again. Tim Hudson faces Jordan Zimmerman tonight, and while I wish the best for the kid coming off surgery, I hope he starts pitching well only after tonight's start.
The Braves need a win so bad right now.
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My thought for the day...
The Cincinnati Reds don’t have a chance at making it out of the first round.
by Few_Proud_Brave on Sep 24, 2010 8:20 AM EDT reply actions
Which is why we want them to have a better record than the NL West so we draw them in the first round. Which is completely feasible considering the NL West teams are going to be beating up on each other the last 9 games. However, the Reds can put it in cruise-control because they’ve pretty much locked up their division.
If I have to explain my username to you, you're obviously a Philly fan.
"Kill my boss?! Do I dare live out the American dream?" - Homer Simpson
I agree with you on all accounts.
But what scares me is that the Reds seemed to have put it in “cruise control mode” some time back. The only reason they’ve kept the lead they have is that the Cards, confusingly, have completely sucked for weeks now.
I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. ~ Crash Davis
by Old Braves' Fan on Sep 24, 2010 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions
This thing is tight!
TWSS
"No. Lonely people mixing with one another? Breeding? Creating an even lonelier generation? You're not even allowing natural selection do its work. Pssh. You're like the guy who invented the seat belt."
Dwight Schrute
god willing
"IN THE AIR LEFT FIELD- THAT'LL DO IT!... AND IT KEEPS ON GOING; THAT IS A HOMERUN!"
I'll be at Saturday's game
hopefully Maya implodes again and Lowe is the same DL we’ve seen the last few starts.
The Braves need to hang in there...
If we can get to the final weekend with the Padres and Giants swapping the NL West first place everybody and we manage to tied the one at the top or get a .5 o full game lead over them, we can seal this deal since one of them will for sure lose in their final matchup to close the season.
This series as well as the Marlins are MUST WINS right now… anything worse than 4-2 would be terrible.
I think 5-1 is needed. I can’t see either of those two teams doing worse then 5-4 over their last 9.
5-4??
Considering they play each other, that’s going to make that difficult for BOTH to do that well.
Then you factor in the Giants playing the Rockies and the Padres playing Cincinnati…and it makes 5-4 for both look pretty difficult. Factor in that the Padres have an extra game to play that is a must-win (we won our extra, for all intents and purposes, since we’re in the lead w/ fewer games left), and we’re still sitting in pretty good position. 4-2 wouldn’t kill us at all, considering their end-of-season competition.
-C
It’s rough to sit through these games and not have someone that can’t hit a Ball?
How bout our old boys KJ and Laroche helping out the Bravos. Thanks boys! Glad to see Colorado fall back.
I was thinking the same thing last night.
Justin’s homey Mr. Johnson had a longball in each of the three games.
Hindsight is 20/20
But we could really use KJ in a Braves uni right about now, even if just to give Prado a few days of rest
"I wasn’t thinking about it. That’s the worst celebration of all time. I didn’t know what to do. I got lost in the moment." - Brian McCann
by HansonManCrush on Sep 24, 2010 10:32 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Nevermind
I totally forgot about Brooks… What is wrong with me??
"I wasn’t thinking about it. That’s the worst celebration of all time. I didn’t know what to do. I got lost in the moment." - Brian McCann
by HansonManCrush on Sep 24, 2010 10:36 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
More like we could have used him to platoon with Diaz in LF.
by redwards95 on Sep 24, 2010 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
this.
Wait - Kelly Johnson hits lefties better than righties? That just HAS to be backwards. - Bobby Cox as he looks at KJ's splits for his career
by Jareth Cutestory on Sep 24, 2010 12:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Jordan Zimmermann
I recall his first ever start was against us last year. He out pitched DLowe and beat us. Hopefully, this will not happen.
I think the Nats might be Dunn and Zimmerman (the 3B with just one N) less but they were able to scores quite a few runs yesterday (off Astros…so that may not count) without them.
by LEastCoastBears on Sep 24, 2010 11:51 AM EDT reply actions
Hudson vs. Nats in 2010
Tim Hudson is 12-1 with a 1.65 ERA in 15 career starts against the Nationals/Expos. 14 of those starts was with with Atlanta.
He’s made four starts against the Nats this year. He is 2-0 with a 1.57 ERA. The Braves are 3-1 in those four games.
The only loss was Hudson’s first start against the Nats this year on May 6. Hudson pitched well. He only allowed 2 runs over 7 innings, he only allowed 6 base runners on 5 hits and a hit batter. He struck out 4 and walked no one. Unfortunately, two of the five hits were solo home runs. Even more unfortunately, his opponent that night, Scott Olsen, took a no-hitter into the 8th inning until the Braves finally tagged him for two runs to take Hudson off the hook. But the Nationals would go on to win 3-2 in the 9th.
by AnEternalEnigma on Sep 24, 2010 2:46 PM EDT reply actions
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