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Braves Get Destroyed 11-5

This was certainly not the type of performance we were expecting nor hoping for from this team tonight. Brandon Beachy pitched his heart out but a rough sixth inning from both Beachy and Peter Moylan, combined with an error from Brooks Conrad lead to a close game becoming a blowout.

Beachy pitched well, lasting 5.2 innings and striking out five while walking just one. He allowed seven hits, but if he shows that control he will be useful in the post-season and as a starter next year. Christhian Martinez gave up four runs in relief, which put the Braves even further back. Mike Minor appeared in relief in the game's final two innings, pitching 1.1 innings and striking out two batters.

Jimmy Rollins' grand slam was by far the biggest play of the game. The score was 3-2 when he hit the home run off the first pitch he saw from Mike Dunn. 

Overall, this was just an unfortunate loss. Derrek Lee came through with three RBI hits, giving him four in total. Other than Lee, Conrad was the only other player to record two hits. 

Tomorrow, Tommy Hanson will take on Vance Worley as the Phillies adjusted their rotation last second. Worley has pitched well this year, but Hanson is the better pitcher. Hopefully, the Braves come to play better tomorrow.

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braves get destroyed

tell me how you really feel

Conrad

I really think we had the game without the Conrad play. It would have been huge momentum shift for Moylan coming in and getting the 3rd out on one pitch. 4-0 SD right now, this is a nightmare. Come on guys!

I'm glad

That I’m not the only one who saw it that way. It seemed like Joe was trying to pin it on Infante, which I couldn’t buy, at all.

Even after that play, Moylan can’t walk a man with the bases loaded, not on those last two pitches.

TV

Kept showing Infante like it was his fault but it was totally Conrad. The ball was hit hard right to Conrad and it was a catcher running to first! It was a no brainer to go to first. I mean he could have even tried to get the runner at third who was barely running. I’m so frustrated right now.

Also...

Werth had no more business on second than I did. Wolf really choked on that call.

All the more infuriating because he rang Omar up with two men on later on a similar pitch.

gotta disagree

Infante has no other job but to be on 2nd there if needed. You don’t assume. Any 2b knows it. Conrad was fairly far behind the bag, and if he can’t get there 2nd is an okay option. You get caught watching the action, you get burned.

That said, Conrad is starting to remind me of a famous figure on TBS in the 80s.

Unfortunately, it’s not Bob Horner, but “The Hands of Stone” Ronnie Garvin.

 I like his bat, but I’m really not liking his glove.

What happens in the event of a tie between Braves/Pads?
tiebreaker game on Monday in Atlanta

Braves wins the head-to-head against the Padres (same situation against the Giants if tied)

Yeah, I wasn't sure if it would be in ATL or SD.
Good thing that the Padres lost yesterday and we had a 2 game lead before tonight

we have to WIN tomorrow

That's a headline title Philly fans will love.
PLEASE LET PACGNOSIS DO THE PRE/POST GAME WRITE UPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pacgnosis=WINS!

I'm so dissapointed right now

It was all on Brooksy to make the make the play and he didn’t. We have to be smarter. The phils are going to play us hard every time. We have to come hungry tomorrow because the season depends on it.

also Melky and Nate didn't help with their defensive blunders:(
They're each

Absolute liabilities out there.

Bobby needs to start Matt Diaz in LF and Rick Ankiel in CF for the next two games.

In person, Melky is worse than on TV. He is an embarassment to the league. Mcclouth was bad too. I can’t figure out why our OF didn’t know how to play the wind blowing in from LF/CF at 20 mph? Unprofessional.

10 of their 11 runs, I think came with 2 outs.
Well

6-0 Padres. Looks like we are going to have to wait til tomorrow. We need a win

So much for some saying the Phoolies wouldn't go all out against us.

For being thrown into the fire BB has been solid.

He's pitched well enough to win both games he pitched against the Phillies, imo

Manuel not that way. He said he would put a lineup out there all 3 games “good enough to beat the Braves”.
He meant it.
We gotta earn these wins, which means DEFENSE has to keep their mind in the game and not give them extra outs.

Beachy has been a pleasant surprise and pitched great.

I agree

and I knew Cholly was not going to go easy on us, as you said, that’s not his way of doing business.

I didn’t think so either, but some were convinced. It will be interesting to see how far his important starters go in the game.

SD 6 SF 0 in the 5th on MLBN finally

Just found it there.

Why can't we just have something go easily for the Braves :(

I still believe we will make it,

I do too

It may come down to Sunday, but I think we will get it done!

I really really don't want it to come down to Sunday

that would mean Huddy has to pitch and I don’t want him to have to. Plus I will be at the game and i don’t have a good record when I go this season

Don't feel bad

I’ve had a horrible record when going to the games this season. The worst being the no-hitter :(

Yikes

I was also at the game last year where Matt Diaz got picked off at third to end the game that essentially ended our playoff hopes. I was crushed

Ouch

That was a tough loss:(

Yea I was so mad and upset

my girlfriend was with me and almost dumped me after the game haha. She didn’t understand how I was so upset. She just didn’t understand!

I understand!
If she doesn't understand your passion

Shouldn’t you be the one dumping her?

It doesn't get any better..

Been married for 36 years – she still doesn’t understand why this is killing me. She prays for Brave wins just for the tranquility.

haha – my wife of several decades plus more or less trys to ignore my Braves’ obcession.

IT'S OFFICIAL

Baseball blows.

Wake your Giants up!!

We need them to help us out!

I don't know how many times this year

I’ve said, “I HATE baseball!” But of course, it’s never long before I’m professing my love for the game again. It is definitely taxing on one’s nerves.

I’m really impressed by Beachy, does anybody have a clue what we can do with him next year? I keep reading that Teheran might be ready by June or July. Hudson, Hanson, Lowe, Jurrjens, Minor, Beachy and Teheran…With more on their heels.

Hopefully

We won’t trade him for a clueless, immobile strikeout machine.

Too much good young pitching is such a terrible problem! Trouble, trouble, woe, woe on us!

IDK

but it’s a good problem to have. I hate to give any of them up, but we’ve gotta have some help in the outfield, which may leave us trading one of them.

I guess

Cannot agree more that it’s a good problem. If we trade one or two, I hope we get the goods in return, it’s been a minute since we made a great trade.

Yeah, a minute or two, indeed.
Giants score!
Gonna be tough to come back with the Pads BP

I sure hope they do. It would put me into a much better mood before I go to bed

Yeah

me too….

generally, the braves/baseball in general drive me to drink

I was at the bar and after the conrad error/moylan walk/rollins grand slam, I was so depressed… I just sat there and watched the rest of the game like I was taking some sort of painful medication, and when it was over, got up and went home. I had no desire to stay out at all. That game sapped all the life and fun out of me

I know that feeling well :(
I can't tolerate another weekend like the last one

Braves losing 2-3 to the nats, GA losing…. thank god the falcons salvaged something for me on Sunday. Can tomorrow be called the “day of win” where every team I need or want to win pulls one out? Georgia, the Braves, and San Fran all need to win for me tomorrow

This would be nice

Throw in a Falcons win on Sunday and everything will be just swell

agreed

forgot to add that one in there, but I think they’ll be OK against the 49ers regardless if I add them to my “please, dear god, Win” list or not

I think they will win

but something about the game is just unsettling. Birds coming off of an emotional win and the Niners playing way below their talent level. Just need to focus I guess

We root for the same teams

so I understand about last week-end. The Dawgs game was embarrassing.

We won't mention them around here anymore

Every time I think of the Dawgs, I just shake my head (which is a lot since I’m still an undergrad here in Athens)

I won't if you won't!

SF just scored 2

SF rally would do wonders for me right now
I worked for the football team for 5 years

I still know most of the coaches/seniors… It’s embarrassing for sure. If we lose tomorrow, I don’t know what I’m going to do, but it will be destructive

Do you agree that BoBo needs to go bye bye?
I don't want to touch that, because I actually really know and like him as a person

and he’s one of my professional references, so for my sake, I hope not

Yes

When people in the stands know what the play call is, that is pretty bad. Plus, he is just saying vanilla and predictable with his play calling and just won’t call a game to the strength of his team (i.e. this year he needs more short passes with Murray to open up the running game. Play action ain’t fooling anyone right now)

you can ask the people I watched the game with last week

but I was calling over 75% of our offensive plays based on the formations/motions we lined up in… granted, I know our offense REALLY well, but still…

I like Mark Richt

I hope escapes the season, without getting fired.

He will

He still has enough political capital to have a chance to redeem himself next year i would think. We will see. UGA is still a pretty young team that needs time to mature. See 2002 Dawgs

he'll get a pretty nice buyout if they decide to get rid of him

I think he gets another year despite everything that’s happened so far… but we’ve got to play better. If we play like crap tomorrow, I don’t know what they can do to turn the ship around

I like Murray

he’s gonna be a good one, with some experience under his belt, imo

I think they ought to let him sling it around a bit

he hasn’t played bad at all, and we clearly can’t run the ball. put the game on the kid’s arm and let’s see what he’s made of. He just might surprise us and light up the scoreboard

Whats the worst that could happen?

We lose more? I’m kinda numb to it now haha

seriously......
I think we all on TC empathize with you

I hate that I get affected so much, but I just can’t help it. Its a tough life to lead, thats for sure

I cannot believe I am rooting for the Giants. I can't stand them & all the bandwagon jumpers around here the last few weeks.

I was taking Daisy out – missed it.

Just one but better than none

off to a good start to this inning

Question

Conrad has had some big hits so I can’t fault him for his hitting.

How many errors would Glaus make had he started at third instead of Conrad? Thats three errors for Conrad already since he took over third on Monday.

Glaus' lack of range has to be factored into your equation somehow
I said this to a Braves fan friend just minutes ago

When we were texting about the game.

Someone promise me - the Giants are perfectly capable of making up 5 runs these last 3 innings
Just scored 2

Saw that! Woohoo!

I didn't know you had MLBN?

It’s much better than ESPN , as far as commentators go, imo

I think I do – it’s says MLB logo in the corner. I don’t pay extra for it.

Sweet

I have to pay extra for it, but it’s worth it, for nights like tonight.

I know there is a package too, but I don’t subscribe to it because they black out all the Braves games for me.

They block out the Braves games for me too

I added it last season mainly to keep up with our competition.

Tonight's Braves game - we had 10 hits to their 13

So, it wasn’t like we just rolled over and didn’t have any offense.

Yeah,

I noticed that. The errors are what killed us, imo

They have realy been piling up the past few weeks!

Is it bad I fell asleep after scotch and chinese food

to wake up to a 9 run deficit??

No

you should have just slept through the night!

I know! False hopes of a comeback made things entirely worse!!
The Giants are getting into the game

2 more on and 2 out..

D Lee got me excited, but now the Gigantes are getting me real excited!

This doesn’t sound good.

scotch and chinese????

rather odd combo….

Yeah, don't recommend it

lol

Now I’m hungry again – 12:28 am geez.
Made peanut butter crackers.

That's the bad thing about staying up late

I get hungry, and go to bed with food on my stomach :(

Yeah I know – I ate at 5pm – that’s a long time ago.

me at 6,

Just had me an ice cream sandwich :)

Oh gosh, I have those in the freezer too…

you two stop it

I have snickers ice cream bars in the freezer, and I don’t want to get up and get one, but y’all are making it soooooo hard

TWHS ;-)

Oh that was a good one

too easy though

While y'all contemplate ice cream bars and peanut butter,

I’m heading back to hitting the bottle . . . sans the chinese.

so terrible....

I love it

I love snickers ice cream bars too!
I had heard a rumor last year...

they were discontinued. Thankfully, it was a bs rumor.

I have all of you handily beaten

I stopped at Taco Bell on the way home from the game. HAH.

Scotch and chinese food!!

We had to bake 525 cookies at work tonight… I ate a large portion of them. Haha, then our friends at the gas station gave us free taquitos. So bad…

Hey

long time no see. How’s school?

School’s great. Super busy, that’s why I haven’t been around lately. But everything I’m busy with is really enjoyable. I saw you talking about Murray up there. Haha I met him a few weeks ago. I see him on campus a few times a week. He’s a really nice and humble guy.

Good to see you on here.

Murray seems like a wise young man. Happy all is well with you. I kinda keep up with you some on FB,

How have you been? how’s the family?

What was for supper??

I had pasta with chicken and tomato cream sauce.

6-4 Giants!

Padres 6, Giants 4

The excitement, the excitement . . . lol
Yes!!

SF is trying to help us out :)

run into one Freddy Sanchez.... Please...
Man, I thought that ball was headed for the gap :(

Oh well, we have a ballgame now!

Well, that’s a start. 3 more innings to get the rest.

damn

All of a sudden the padres offense can score and the giants pitching sucks.

agghh, well, ok lets get them Giants!!

Good job! Now more runs please.

great AB aubrey huff......
I'm calling a Posey walk-off jackaroonie . . .
god what a bad night

Why does it seem that we can’t beat the phillies?

Their Sept record shows we’re in a lot of company

Indeed

I’m just so frustrated and scared that the Braves won’t make the final cut.

1:10 start tomorrow for Giants/Padres

So, we’ll get to be nervous for 2 games at once.
I may need something stronger than ice-tea.

ever had firefly?

I am not a drinker, but that is delicious..

no clue what that is

I figure shots of Tequila might do LOL

Tequila...

/shudder

Oh it’ll kill ya unless you splurge for the good stuff

Even the "good stuff"

still tastes like gasoline to me. Ever since I went to Cabo this past year, I have sworn off of tequila. It was in EVERYTHING down there lol

If I indulge, I never mix it – just shots. Cazadores is smooth as silk.

Even the shots there were too much

No such thing as a regular shot. Everything is a double shot

Cabo...

Did you go fishing with Mauer?

sweet tea flavored vodka

you can mix it w tea, lemonade, or water… it is glorious!!!

Sounds too sweet for me.

if you mix it with water, its not really sweet at all

that’s generally what I mix it with. Pour a half firefly and half water and you’ll be well on your way. If you like tea, I recommend trying it at least once

Stuff is really good

but you can only take so much before its just too sweet

that's why I always keep crown on hand
Exactly. No soft shit. This weekend ain't for the faint of the heart!
I'm guessing I've killed a handle of crown between last night and tonight

tomorrow will be worse, especially if things don’t go the way I want

Well done. I'm joining you, as we speak!
Crown and ginger ale

pure awesome

I can do that or crown and sprite

either way, it achieves my objective of getting hammered

haha well if getting hammered is the only objective

screw paying for Crown, just buy green label Evan Williams. That stuff is kinda rough

I rarelydrink that stuff anymore... too many years in downtown athens

it tastes like firewater

That was always my drink in downtown a town too
Dewars and 7

purely awesome

I just saw that too

my bro is getting married in the morning (but I’ll be back in time to watch Bobby and the game!) so I plan on doing some drinking anyways

Thats a start Gigantes!

Let’s Go Giants (this series only) – Let’s Go Giants (this series only) – Let’s Go Giants (this series only) – Let’s Go Giants (this series only) -

Thanks for clearing that up lol
This This This This
San Francisco,

I am willing to forget about the insane people who run your city. I am willing to forget about Barry Bonds. For crying out loud, I’m willing to stay up past 1 to watch a box score! Now please score a few more runs!

THIS

except the hippies. I can’t overlook that

yeah

no one likes hippies

Lets go Chunk

We need you to do the truffle shuffle big time!

I'll send him a dozen Krispy Kremes if he would only....
40 year-old virgin

There are no batter’s box lines left.

Reds lost for those who care
I was dog-cussing the mound til Gonzalez dropped that ball
PLEASE make them pay like the Phils made us pay tonight

for giving them extra outs to work with

Haha

That’s what pressure will do to you..

Heath Bell, please blow the game 2 days in a row

Thanks,

America

Anyone other than me remember when Heath Bell was not fat?
Bell wasn't fat??

Like when he was 3??

Haha

When he first came up, he wasn’t, but it didn’t take long for him to put on the pounds.

Gee

Thanks Torres

Giants clinch if they win right?

I’m feelin some 9th inning magic

Since it's now October...

Remember to support BC Awareness month.

I do

and will continue to do so.

:-) We either got ’em, want ’em or like ’em.
I love how they call it 2nd base in a lot of the campaigns now.

I have no envy, but I like 'em . . . a lot!

I thought they called it 2nd base for an entirely different reason at first, and then I thought no way! :)

There are some really cute tshirts out there – if you Google it. Some even have 2 baseballs on the front in key location ;-)

Oi, a walk after that great throw to get the baserunner.

Now hit batter – gonna take a vidrow now.

vidro (I knew that looked odd)

what if we would trade for Bautista in the Trade Deadline?

Bautista would have stopped hitting HRs.

Whew – now we need Giants to come back here.

Whew

I thought that ball was going through. To the bottom of the 9th we go. The Braves will lend the Giants one of their patented last at-bat win. LETS GO GIANTS !

Let’s Go Giants (this series only) – Let’s Go Giants (this series only) – Let’s Go Giants (this series only) – Let’s Go Giants (this series only)

C'mon Giants!

The “just for men” beard shot – kills me

You took the words out of my mouth

Ugly :(

It’s sooo obvious.

Seriously

the worst ever…..Someone needs to tell him How bad it looks!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I think Sanchez read the bat flip more than anything… and got doubled up.

That hurt!

:(

Welp

That sucks massively

Damn it damn it damn it
Guys, Idea...

Omar at 3rd
Brooksy to 2nd

It needs to happen

I say

try it tomorrow…

That almost HR got me excited for a second....
I at least thought it was gonna hit off of the wall for a double :(
Damn.

Just like always – we’re gonna have to do it ourselves.

And the Padres Win

Tomorrow is as a must win game as this team has ever had

Well, nite everyone - tomorrow afternoon we gotta DO BUSINESS

and hope the Giants do the same.

Good nite!

I’ve got a baby shower to attend at 10am, better hit the sack.

We are gonna need our rest for tomorrow

We have 2 simultaneous games to worry about!

I didn’t read all the comments but I’m a little disappointed that JC Boscans first big league at bat was tonight, and he scored all the way from first. He’ll prolly never get another at bat. Maybe it’s just me but that trip around the bases would make all those years in the minors worth it for me. I think I just made myself cry a little.

I think it was awesome...

I’m confused about why you’re a little disappointed?

Me too, I was cheering him all the way. Patient at bat to draw the walk, then the great baserunning to score from first.

What I meant was I was a little disappointed it wasn’t talked about in the recap or what not.

Hey guys

being there tonight…..wow that sucked…but Cheetahs was fucking amazing

1) I hate MVP with every fiber of my being
2) itd be cool if JHey got a hit once in awhile
3) I can’t believe DLee was that good tonight
4) McLouth is god awful in center
5) Conrad is costing us runs every fucking game at third base……he is fucking terrible

I remember my first beer.

lol

I was so pissed last night.

Addition

1. Melky sucks in OF and in clutch hitting

bump the rest of your list down

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