Braves Onslaught Buries Astros 11-4

by moorebraves on Jun 10, 2011 11:17 PM EDT in Braves Game Recaps

Freddie stayed hot tonight with this RBI single in the fifth. (Photo by Bob Levey/Getty Images)

If you're reading this recap because you missed the game, I'm sorry. If you're reading this to relive the offensive onslaught, I don't blame you. There are few games that get fans pumped up like this one. After losing Prado to the DL with a staph infection and struggling offensively for a majority of the season, this is just what the doctor ordered. The Braves took home their fourth straight win, beating Aneury Rodriguez and the Astros 11-4.

Firstly, do you remember Pujols's shot off of Brad Lidge in the 2005 NLCS that hit the train tracks in left? Yeah, well Freddie Freeman's third inning shot into the second level of the right field seats went about twice as far. It was the closest thing to an out-of-the-parker you could hit in a dome. Alex Gonzalez followed up with a blast of his own that didn't cause Carlos Lee to flinch. It was just one of those nights. In a word: "awesome." Eric Hinske added a blast of his own to the short porch in left in the seventh inning and then Chipper struck in the eighth with an opposite field shot of his own. This was Chipper's first left-handed tater since May 12th.

The Braves were even stealing bases tonight. Chipper stole one! Schafer took second twice to bring his season total to five. Aside from Schafer's steal in the first that scored a run, the other two on the night were rendered unnecessary by huge offensive innings. But we saw just how crucial an asset Schafer's speed could be against the Marlins, and it's good to see that speed on the bases.

Hudson struggled a bit with his command at times but pitched competitively and still came away with an impressive line of six innings, two runs, seven hits, and managed not to walk any batters. In retrospect, it seems like the Braves' bats, though comforting, were probably an enemy to Huddy's control. In both the third and the fifth, Hudson sat down for quite some time and likely got a bit cold. Still a studly outing from ol' Timmy.

Matt Young recorded his first career multi-hit game as well as his first career RBI. Scott Proctor and Scott Linebrink pitched scoreless seventh and eighth innings, that hopefully built some confidence for the relievers. Christhian Martinez gave up a two-run shot to Matt Downs in the bottom of the ninth, but that was the last of the damage that the 'Stros could muster up. I dropped my scorer's pen and started pumping both fists in the third, so here's the box score if you want to see the full stats.

Final - 6.10.2011	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R
Atlanta Braves	1	0	4	0	4	0	1	1	0	11
Houston Astros	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	4

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Every Brave in the lineup with a HIT

I say we do it again :-)

Chipper post game interview, saying his dad made a suggestion today that helped his swing.
If Chipper Sr. can see something to suggest…

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by NCChopper on Jun 10, 2011 11:20 PM EDT reply actions

I think we might have

the wrong “Larry” as our hitting coach.

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by Jacob Peterson on Jun 10, 2011 11:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Was Larry Sr. hanging around the BP today? Maybe more than Chipper was paying attention to what he was saying.

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by NCChopper on Jun 10, 2011 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions

I hope he was, and I hope they listened.

Larry, Sr. has taught more HOF hitters than Larry Parrish. (I’m just guessing; I don’t think Parrish has taught any likely HOFers.)

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by Jacob Peterson on Jun 10, 2011 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions

Fredi post game interview:

“I think Chipper likes hitting in front of Mom and Dad”.. “If that’s the case, maybe we’ll get them on the team somehow”.

Don’t tease us Fredi.

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by NCChopper on Jun 10, 2011 11:29 PM EDT up reply actions

(It's a 4 game series)

by TBuzz on Jun 10, 2011 11:26 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Yep, but you gotta start with 1.

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by NCChopper on Jun 10, 2011 11:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Just saying I think we need to win 3 to win the series…

by TBuzz on Jun 10, 2011 11:38 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

But they’re not going to win three.
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They’ll win all four.

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by TonyAlmeyda on Jun 10, 2011 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions

/goes to the bathroom

by TBuzz on Jun 11, 2011 7:07 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

And?

We’re playing the Astros.

Hopefully, we can take 2 of the next 3 to win the series.

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by Jman781 on Jun 10, 2011 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe

He should talk to Uggla…

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by Jman781 on Jun 10, 2011 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions

This is only the 4th time in Braves history

that they’ve hit at least 4 HRs and stolen at least 3 bases in the same game. The previous 3:

9/24/2005 vs. FLA (4 HR, 3 SB)
4/1/1996 vs. SFG (5 HR, 3 SB)
5/20/1990 vs. PIT (4 HR, 3 SB)

I was surprised it was that few.

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by Jacob Peterson on Jun 10, 2011 11:26 PM EDT reply actions

Great stat

Is this just while in Atlanta?

"Braves, your offense, WOOF!!!" -Kevin McAllister

by moorebraves on Jun 10, 2011 11:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Nope,

all of Braves history (since 1919 anyway)

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by Jacob Peterson on Jun 11, 2011 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions

I was surprised

We had stolen 3 bases in a game before.

Just kidding.

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by Jman781 on Jun 10, 2011 11:58 PM EDT up reply actions

How far was Freeman's blast?

Didn’t catch the game, but seen the replay on Gameday and it was a majestic shot…..Had to be 450+

by Undocorkscrew on Jun 10, 2011 11:38 PM EDT reply actions

He KILLED it. The sound alone… you just knew that one was wayyy gone.

by CourtesyLaughs on Jun 10, 2011 11:50 PM EDT up reply actions

they

gave it some bs measurement in the 430s. just watch the swing and you’ll know it was longer than that. it was as if that ball had slept with his wife, mistress, and mother in the same night. violent.

"Braves, your offense, WOOF!!!" -Kevin McAllister

by moorebraves on Jun 11, 2011 1:40 AM EDT up reply actions

They said it landed ten rows back in the second deck, but that’s incorrect usage. The word “landed” implies that it descended at some point, which it never did. Rather, it intercepted the tenth row of the second deck. It was a missile defense home run.

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by Cornutt on Jun 11, 2011 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Houston Broadcast said 475

by billreef on Jun 11, 2011 1:39 AM EDT up reply actions

ESPN box says 440 ft

by jacket15 on Jun 11, 2011 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions

Hittrackeronline.com, a fairly definitive authority on this, says 440.

My buddy and I just decided that the braves would be set if we could get Matt Kemp, Jose Reyes, and Albert Pujols.

by willlinn on May 17, 2011 2:13 PM EDT

by Bronn on Jun 11, 2011 12:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Interesting that you mention the good offense hurting Timmy

Maybe this is why so many good pitching teams have bad offenses…

by ChoppingTalk on Jun 10, 2011 11:51 PM EDT reply actions

Maybe

This is why our offense struggles some?

They have a bad inning, and before they know it, they’re batting again. The opposing pitcher gets on a groove, and we can’t snap out of it until the 7th inning or later…Dang starters!

Hmmm.

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by Jman781 on Jun 11, 2011 12:00 AM EDT up reply actions

I wonder if they've ever studied this...

and also how the 2010 & 2011 Atlanta Braves are magic against bullpens

by ChoppingTalk on Jun 11, 2011 12:40 AM EDT up reply actions

We've been absolutely spoiled with the pen these two years

People are going to start shooting themselves when they start to disappoint over any significant stretch.

by Undocorkscrew on Jun 11, 2011 1:35 AM EDT up reply actions

We needed a game like this to give our BP a rest

…and of course it was awesome watching us hit four jacks.

(Freeman’s HR was so long it almost counted for 2 HRs…it was certainly the longest I have seen in a while)

by Santaklose11 on Jun 11, 2011 12:04 AM EDT reply actions

Agree...

I am glad I didn’t one part of O’Flaventersbrel tonight.

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by Jman781 on Jun 11, 2011 12:11 AM EDT up reply actions

didn't see^

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by Jman781 on Jun 11, 2011 12:11 AM EDT up reply actions

FF Home Run

Does anybody know how far did it go, total distances wise?

by deewill23 on Jun 11, 2011 12:31 AM EDT reply actions

I swear that it bounced off a screen in the back of the 2nd deck

Truly a bomb

by ChoppingTalk on Jun 11, 2011 12:38 AM EDT up reply actions

Houston Broadcast said 475

by billreef on Jun 11, 2011 1:40 AM EDT up reply actions

I hate being the debbie downer…but no ball has ever been hit as far as the the ball Pujols hit off of lidge…whatevr the distance quoted for that shot, you need to add the circumstnace of the earth, bc I thoroughly believe it traveled once around the earth and land back in the LF stands…I firmly beleive all disasters that have occurred in Brad Lidge’s life after that moment (and possibly some that occurred before that moment, due to quatum physics and the wave lines of time) are directly related to that blast.

That said Freeman hit the crap out of that ball. It’s always wonderful when no one on defense evens move…they just turn around to see where it lands…and thats what happened in this case.

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by Swo12bv on Jun 11, 2011 1:41 AM EDT reply actions

Mickey Mantle and Harmon Killebrew would like a word with you...

by Santaklose11 on Jun 11, 2011 2:26 AM EDT up reply actions

from the grave

by Santaklose11 on Jun 11, 2011 2:39 AM EDT up reply actions

I would also argue...

the shot that Barry Bonds hit off Troy Percival in the 2002 WS might have been the farthest. In the words of Tim Salmon…“that’s the hardest hit I’ve ever seen”…

by TBuzz on Jun 11, 2011 7:11 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Chock Full O' Juice

"Word on the street is that McCann tried to call Posey to apologize, but that Brian Sabean has taken out a contract on McCann’s life.".- Craig Calcaterra on BMac's overtaking of Posey in the ASG voting.

by Sam Jethroe on Jun 11, 2011 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions

I would put Reggie Jackson’s shot in the 1975(?) All-Star game, up against it. That one hit the left center field light tower on top of Tiger Stadium.

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by Cornutt on Jun 11, 2011 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions

I was going to make this comment. I have it bookmarked still:

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/player/mp_tpl_3_1.jsp?w_id=455632&w=2005/open/topplays/archive10/05nlcs_gm5_slnhou_pujols_3runhr_350.wmv&pid=mlb_tp&gid=2005/10/17/slnmlb-houmlb-1&cid=mlb&fid=mlb_tp350&v=2

by Resentment on Jun 11, 2011 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions

that ball went so effing far… i refuse to acknowledge a ball can be hit harder than that.

and to reply above… we only have anecdotel evidence of Killebrew and mantle’s bomb…which to me is less convincing than video evidence of Pujols destroying a baseball. I am sure those balls were crushed, but i am a man who likes proof.

Dwight Schrute

by Swo12bv on Jun 11, 2011 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions

I am sure you can find video of Mantle's legendary 565ft shot somewhere...

by Santaklose11 on Jun 12, 2011 12:42 AM EDT up reply actions

Well I was partially right

I was hoping the Kids would do well tonight, but they all pretty much did. Go! Braves! I’m kinda wasted right now in case Justin wants to argue.

Senator, we have another old saying,"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." Fletcher

by jimmontg on Jun 11, 2011 4:56 AM EDT reply actions

I think we should still listen to LetGMadduxPlayCF2011...

..and demote Freeman.

by Adamal24 on Jun 11, 2011 8:20 AM EDT reply actions

I was on the road last night, driving I-75 and I-59 back to my hometown. I did listen to much of the game on radio affiliates in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. What a novel thing, listening to baseball on the radio. It seems like a much more intimate medium. Don and Jim cracked wise, created good verbal images and proved their worth as radio broadcasters. I didn’t feel like I missed anything for lack of a visual component.

Now I just need to convince a station here to carry Giants games and I’d be set.

LIVE EDT

Tape-delayed for the West Coast

by TheLetter2 on Jun 11, 2011 9:07 AM EDT reply actions

try MLB.tv

….I am sure they have a Game Day Audio app. If you have an iPhone or something like that with roaming 4G it might work.

just a guess

by Santaklose11 on Jun 11, 2011 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions

this

it’s only $20 for the season (may be cheaper now). You can get any game through audio. I love it deeply.

by KMarch on Jun 11, 2011 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions

It’s not that big a deal.

LIVE EDT

Tape-delayed for the West Coast

by TheLetter2 on Jun 11, 2011 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions

Wow

What a game! I especially loved Uggla starting the third inning two out no one on rally. I love those kinds of rallies! I know he didn’t do anything else, but the game was close till then, so you gotta give him some credit. I also love that Gonzales is on a tear! Wow! things are looking up offensively when our worst starting batters are starting to hit the ball. Very exciting. Can’t say enough about Freeman. Great fielding, hits HRs and singles, has great at-bats… this is just great!

by BravesFaninAZ on Jun 11, 2011 2:39 PM EDT reply actions