The Braves have scored 56 runs through the first seven games of the season, which is the best mark in modern franchise history and is the best mark in all of baseball since the 2003 Yankees scored 61 runs.
Imagine reading that sentence a week ago. The Braves, in the first seven games of the year, would score more runs than any other team in any season since 2003. That was 15 years ago.
Mark Bowman dropped that nugget on Friday night, and it really is impressive when you think about it. Perhaps even more impressive is that in one of those seven games the Braves scored just one run against the Nationals. Altogether the club is averaging an absurd eight runs per game, and if you take away that loss to the Nationals it’s an even more astounding 9.17 runs per game.
Even if some regression is inevitable — I don’t quite see Ryan Flaherty ending the year with a 1.076 OPS nor will Freddie Freeman continue getting on base 61 percent of the time — it’s been a lot of fun when the Braves come up to the plate. Naturally, they won't score another run at Coors Field over the next two days.