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Open Thread 8/6: Braves vs. Giants

The game ends NOW. Time for the Braves to win. Let's go boys. This is our game.

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Sea Bass now has 3 more HR’s as a Brave than esco did since last september

lol….

you’re going to get torn a new one. be careful.

You know I’m putting that in the recap.

Dear 8 pound, 6 ounce baby Jesus…

don't even know a word yet
WALKOFF NAO
You will crush Romo's fragile psyche.

Tommy pitches another great game and doesn’t get the W. /shakes head

We need this win. We need this series

THIS

THIS THIS THIS

smh, lets win this plz
the two man with HR made the errors.
new requirement

if you hit a HR, you must make an error.

How about you are only allowed to make an error if you hit a HR?

Walkoff for Glavine?
No way Troy hits a HR here........
not a chance in hell
anyone think

Brooks should’ve been at 3rd for defensive purposes?

i'm kinda surprised he wasn't in either
Dear Troy Glaus,

Please break out of your slump….
NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

have we had a game all year where we just have 1 error?

i swear we either have none or multiple

as bad as Hinske has been too….almost wish he was pinch hitting

Glaus needs this. This team needs this. Absolutely huge right here.

Lets go big troy
Up the elevator shaft
glaus getting the boo-birds again
he needs the boo birds to get him out of it

if he ever does.

Troy Glaus is on Nate McLouth level hate for me.

Troy boo birds are back out..
WHY COULDN'T YOU POP IT UP IN 2002, TROY???
Can he do it again?

you know he’s gonna try

ugh

i can’t believe glaus went from an MVP May/June to a complete crap July/early August

if we dont come through, this will be the worst loss of the season so far

No, the homer by Frenchy worse than this.

how bout when we lost bc mclouth and heyward collided?

I was at that game too. What a shit fest.

hmmm you were at that game….you show up here…

So do we see Venters in the 9th?

no chance he slaps billy in the face like that

Only if Wags is hurt. Otherwise Bobby would never go there.

I meant 10th.

is that a new rule?

you act like taht was billys fault.
the HBP was billy's fault
it wouldve been erased

if they can turn a dp

they didn’t have a chance at a DP but still not his fault

What the fuck! I go & eat & come back to this EPIC FAIL!

other than that, how was your meal?

Homemade split pea soup, yummy!

we have been our own worst enemy since the ASB

this

4 blown saves?…numerous errors…awful offense…the only reason we’ve won any games is b/c our starting pitching has been so good

Who's pitching? Farnsworth?
Moylan hopefully
pr0FF3ss0r_F4rnsw0rth?
I am getting fucking sick of this bullshit
that was the worst inning ever
Thank you Braves..

I really wanted to get to bed at a decent hour since I have to work in the morning. Guess not.

Glaus

Glaus has jumped the shark.

just DL Troy

call up Barbaro Canizares

he really does need to be Dl'd
call up

call up the Barber of Seville

anything beats troy

This loss is going to be tough to swallow. (if we do actually lose)

Pitchers did extremely well and the defense blows it.

Not that it’s over, but man what a crappy way for the pitchers to have this hung on them (Wagner).

The llamasaurus is back! I missed him…..

hinske is in, why didn't he ph for the automatic out glaus
guess Bobby forgot
calling it now

walkoff HR by jhey

Nah, Brooksy
but that requires hit with bases loaded = RISP

walks perhaps….

i love me some aussie but lets get through this inning

That would be cool….I mean, if you’re into that kind of thing.

honestly, i don't expect jhey to hit a HR the way he is hitting
Until he has time to let his thumb to heal

I don’t see him hitting for powah

I really think we need to win this within two extra innings. I’m confident in Moylan and Farnsworth, but I really don’t want to see Martinez and there is no way Saito can go three days in a row if Bobby is hesitant to use him two days in a row.

I'd be fine with Dunn too.

Ah, I knew I was forgetting someone. I don’t have quite as much confidence in him just because it would be a high leverage situation and he is a rookie, but he is still solid.

come on moylan, don’t lose him

amazing though, Braves should have been up 3 games last night

umps epic fail and hand the phillies a win, and now there is a chance we could only be up 1 game after tonight

Strikes, Moylan
sweet.. more leadoff runners..
another leadoff walk - recipe for trouble

And I don’t know how well this guy runs, but Moylan is easy to steal off of I would think.

stpo putting the fucking leadoff man on
Token gesture baserunner.

Now for the creative stranding thereof.

Lead off walks are fun.

I’m going to go start a humorous blog about it. My mascot will be fried scallops.

why fried scallops?
yeah im kinda curious
Why not?
sounds too delicious for a humorous leadoff walk blog
5 outs til scallops.

Hmm, you may be right. I can only live in a world where scallops are 2 outs or less away.

just what moylan needs….give them a free ball

HEAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPP
Yeah, Schierholtz is a speed merchant.

Case in point…DAMMIT

at a boy heap

Rule #1: In innings 9 and above, if you walk (or hit) the leadoff runner, you are failing

Take that leadoff runner!!!

running there made NO sense!

It made outs. Play through...
the 3 inning pitched by bullpen, the 3 leadoff man got on base

please have a seat

my eyes must be tiring…i thought that said seal

that's what i meant to say, actually
I really think the Braves sense our negativety LOL
they check the blog on their smart phones while in the dugout

LOL GIANTS FAIL

mac: hey pete, i wanna show off my cannon of an arm, can you walk this dude?
pete: no prob, mac

eat dick, Schierholtz

Nate Scherhous isn’t very fast.

Thank god they ran!

Whew….good thing we caught that guy.

wow thank god we threw that guy out lol
Saw the blown save on ESPN baseball tonight

now I’m here to help. Or something.

Go Braves!

Ryan Langerhans isnt playing in this game, unfortunately.
Nooooo!

I’m assuming my good luck brought the vidro.

ugh...GET OUTS... COME ON

you know he’s going to try and steal here

UGH

VIDRONOWPLZ

Maybe he was trying to set one up this whole time.

that duche doesn’t even have the right helmet on

Andres Torres= best field player on this team?

seems like it

i’m really starting to dislike him

I watch a lot of baseball

And I haven’t heard much about him before this series

he's really good..

I watch the Giants all the time. Just be glad Huff and Posey aren’t clicking this series or we’d really be in trouble..

I advocated trading for him about a week ago.

The guy has been tearing it up since he was put in as the starting leadoff man.

he's like the giants version of angel pagan
wooo two puertoricans! hahaha
age? contract status?

He’s old & came out of nowhere. I don’t trust him

give up a single to torres

now look down, look back up, torres is now on third.

i’m on a horse

+1

for using old spice humor to get us out of a tough situation

DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO
i almost choked on my Goldfish crackers

where is the SINK on his pitches?

THERE IT IS
McDowell came out

Wonder if he saw something in the delivery? Sure helped!

Vidro

you were saying?

vidroooooooooooooooo
we need the vidro here

hey….we still got it

Patented Moylan double play.

Sit, all of you

VIDRO VIDRO VIDRO

please.

OK, we keep setting it...when ya gonna spike it?
alright...walkoff time please
Now is the time for SOCKS!
his first HR as a brave here would be epic

let’s go rickkkkkk

You know PeMo is down with VIDRO.
Wake up O and win this now

Vidros Virdosscali

Who wishes we had KK to put in if needed?

KK is the answer to everything

if you could just see my hand it’s in the air

bobby would warm up Melky to pitch instead
no

Ankiel first then Matty then Melky. KK is the 20th inning guy at best

NOW its time to win this thang!!

How’d ya like that – walk, hit, caught stealing, dp. Sorta like the Phils last night – almost wasted a rally with a pickoff and a caight stealing

I think it would only be fitting for someone to hit a solo home run to win this thing. I don’t even care who does it.

someone in a braves uni

hopefully

Oh, well, yeah. I guess I should have been a little more specific.

We’ve been hitting a lotta solos lately

bleurgh

5am and counting…

4:00 in London

its only a 4 hour difference? for some reason I always thought 6

sadly its 5am in London

and Dublin, where I am

I always miss the time change

It says four on the watch! Honest!

haha

no worries… 4am would be acceptable

HINSKE WE TRUST on deck…..calling it

Hey look it’s Javy Lopez….pitching!

Let’s go, Richard

yea, he REALLY can’t hit lefties

except for johan santana

That swing was not pretty.

nope….that wasn’t it

so Ankiel..

is this part of your strategy.. You want us to hate you and then you can win us over like Glaus?

I miss Andruw.
ANDRUWOO

He lost his MVP bag. Before that he was awesome.

Power of Zagnut

AnKiel strikes (out) again...
Hey, didn't YOU have a Javier once?

13 Brave Strikeouts on the night = pitifully pitiful.

Rick Ankiel swings at every single pitch

He hasn’t become acclimated to the 2010 Braves way of doing things yet.

Hinske vs a left hander?
they've had us look bad A LOT tonight

you gotta hand it to Zito and their bullpen

Only lefty we have not counting the SP
i think we've given up on manufacturing runs

now we are just swinging as hard as we can at everything just incase

well those we’re two great AB’s

Embarrassing Ks…..

worst 2 atbats ever

man...

have we given up… Pitiful back to back at bats there…

as Omar gets a hit

LET’S GO HEYWARD

AUTOsingle

LET’S GO HEYWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Singles work too.

Dear Infante

put the ball inplay please

seriously he needs to come through right now

lets go heyward

UR SO DUE ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY

omar!

man on first…now we might actually score!!!

Auto-single again!
Of course Infante would get on base.

Let’s go HEYWARD

Heyward,

Please do not become the third lefty to strike out pitifully in this inning.

These K’s are ridiculous

190 abs without a HR and counting….

that's unbelieveable
lost his power hitting
how many for Glaus?

over 100…not sure how many exactly

as long as no one is in scoring position..
Omar

trying to make up for that dropped ball

Lets go Heyward

Come on Kid…you’re so due.

Hey, a ball finally!

All B-Mac’s throws have been on the money tonight

Heyward walkoff grandslam any second now.

Infante NOT in scoring position. We can do this.

or not,WHATEVS.
grandslam with 1 runner on-base. Yeah.
...just leave a slider out over the plate

More groundballs to the right side from Heyward

Man, I’d love to see Heyward hit to left field sometime….

damn it

atleast he didnt K

Free Baseball

Good lord Jason…that’s all you do anymore.

agreed, i'm worrying man
I'm only a bit worried- Mostly about the ground balls and chasing low pitches

He seems to have improved in terms of hitting to the opposite field

sweet..

another grounder chopped into the ground right in front of home plate by Heyward

ugh.... another chopper by the kid
that was very predictable
Remember - I called three extra innings, tops.

Don’t let me down.

FUCK THIS IS PATHETIC

Weak. Weak. Weak. 3 outs.

I meant: Weak. Weak. Good. Weak.

Fricking Heyward perfecting the Mellky chop

with as anemic as the offense is

we may take 20 innings to score a run

sorta scares me that the only way we are scoring is HRs now...and solo HRs for that matter

no martineeeeeeyyyy no one on

Maybe Chipper'll triple for the cycle now...likely? no.
if chipper triples to lead off the 11th

how will we score?

He will miss the cycle by getting an inside the park HR.
He hasn't tripled all year.
who thought that BENGIE MOLINA could do the cycle?

why not Chipper?

strike out, strike out, strike out but the ball gets by the catcher, chipper scores, and the batter is safe at first with a walk-off strike out
Lol...wouldn't thant be a great headline...esp. if it was by the pitcher (that's his spot)

We will hit a foul ball and the ump will call it fair.

99% likelyhood.

If Benjie can do it, anyone can.

who comes in now?

pemo stays in?

Such a sad game.

Granted he does that a lot..

but does it have anything to do with the ump calling the balls below his knees strikes.. It’s hard to get under those and drive them

Another round of Moylan, or Farnsworth?
DO WORK FREDDIE FREEMAN

2-for-4, 2B, R

WE NEED SOME RH BATS
Outfield is 0 for 12

Braves are 2/136. Or at least it feels like that.

6/36

which is not very good

How many innings has it been since we drove in someone in scoring position?

A

Dammit Jason! I have to go to bed soon, I need a walkoff

all this negativity

makes my stress for the braves even worse

WALK HERE AND WE LOSE
NO LEADOFF RUNNERS WTF

Leavign Moylan in = bad news.

Not again Pete…….

fuck pemo...throw strikes man

your so lucky

another leadoff walk really????
WHAT THE FUCK PETER
SOMEBODY REALLY LIKES SCALLOPS

Well you can’t have any, Moylan.

Do I discern a pattern?
FUCKIN A....STOP WALKING PEOPLE PEMO

I get the feeling Bobby really doesn’t trust Dunn and Farnsworth yet. I know Moylan should be good for two innings, but it still seems odd, especially with a lefty leading off.

Bobby

must be sleepy and want to go home leaving Peter in

another leadoff walk

We are literally trying to lose this damn game

Horrible. HORRIBLE!!!!!

why do we keep letting the leadoff man in...this is pathetic
WE NEED TO..

INTENTIONALLY WALK EVERY LEADOFF HITTER

pemo

18 pitches…7 strikes

Another walk?????? They only got 3 ****in hits!
THROW STRIKES NOT BALLS.
19 pitches, 7 strikes
Throw a motherfucking strike man
christian martinez up

great

o yeah get martinez up
you guys dont get the moylan pattern

walk-gidp walk-groundout

Ump wants out also, drops strike zone.

Those are strikes, though…

Wait, isn't this why we got Farnsworth?

No kidding…

I guess he’s already on Bobby’s shit list after 1 outing

not even fucking close right now
As I tell my girlfriend all the time: Nothing good ever happens after a leadoff walk.

but…but…last inning?!

what about back to back walks??
goddamnit pemo...

how fucking hard is it to throw strikes man…atleast get them around the fucking plate

GAME OVER

FUCK YOU PETER MOYLAN

Some nights, Peter doesn’t have it – can’t leave him out there like this.

I agree this is a coaching problem.

should have let Venters pitch the 9th
That would have prevented A-Gon and Zombie Jones from being retarded?
great another walk

just leave him in Bobby

MOYLAN SUX TONITE
Back to back walks?

Are we giving up or what? Fucking take him out Bobby.

arrrrrrrgh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

where the fuck is Farnsworth?

I mean, if we’re not even going to use him, why did we trade Collins?

Exactly! Pemo does not have his control tonight. Bobby can be so frustrating at times.
Yeah, good start to this inning so far.
NL East

Say hello to one game ahead.

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leave him in?

i don’t get what you are trying to say….

i can't fucking believe our bullpen is whats falling apart tonight...
this game is over

we blew this game

the way we are playing, we dont deserve to be in 1st place

I STAYED UP FOR THIS?
triple play
yeah, furcal's on the dodgers

I was at that game too!

Bobby is asleep
Fuck bobby

and his shit management of the BP

Could we seriously please quit trying to hand teams games. It seems like almost every game we lose these days happens because we just royally screw up in key situations.

like hitting with runners in scoring position...

or blowing saves b/c of awful defense

It just seems like it’s something different every time. We just need to get out of this funk and get back to playing up to our potential.

if i'm juan uribe

i keep the bat on my shoulder until i walk or strike out looking.

or K on a bunt foul
Please dont let that fat fuck Juan Uribe beat us

Christhian Martinez?

Cla Meredith?
Everth Cabrera?

FRIENDS DO NOT LET DRUNK FRIENDS NAME THEIR CHILDREN

Christhian is normal for the hispanic names... although not written like that.
what happened to wags tonight?

i wasnt around to see it

errors, hp, bb
HBP, error, error

HBP, error on short, error on chipper, run scores

HBP, error, error..
WAGS PEGGED LEADOFF HITTER
mother of god
hey we got 1

come on we need a VIDRO

corners, 1 out

we need another VIDRO!!

GDP! Please!

Hard to do when you can’t reach the ball.

moylan is not near the plate

The last time Kung Fat Bastard was up the defense fucked us.

Hey we got inning-ending DPs the last 2 innings

Good luck never lasts long.

why is Moylan still in?
well, thats half of a gidp

We just need a full one now.

Classic example of the "given" force at second.

When he took the throw he was already past second.

Moyland can't throw strikes....so we walk the bases loaded

Ugh…not sure if i like this or not.

dont wanna pitch to sandoval behind in the count

You mean the guy that’s hitting .266/.324/.385 and leading the league in GIDP?

Walk ’em full to get to Burrell?

who's 2-2 with two walks
no faith in the offense
what the crap?

why isn;t bobby coming out

HOPE MCLOUTH IS UP

FOR SAN FRAN

You’ve got to be kidding me.

so we walk Sandoval to get Burrell who has 2 hits tonight?
epic thinking fail there
HE IS SLOW AS SHIT

McDowell: Throw strikes Pete.
Moylan: What are those?

why did we just walk the bases loaded there?
matchup i guess...

Which pitcher will get to blow it?

C'mon guys, we couldn't win one for Tommy H

but can you still win one for Tommy G???

Need a ground ball not in a hole and not hit too slowly…

Oh my god. Strikes please.
ugh

i have a bad feeling about this but wishing for the best

Senior moment

.Burrell zoned out there for a second.

pemo - 30 pitches, 19 balls
that would require Moylan to throw a damn strike

STRIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best time to pull Moylan: Bbfore the inning began.
worst moylan appearance of the year?
to be fair

his era is 0.00 in this game, technically.

i hate the decision

if it works i’ll like it but i think it was ill advised.

I've never seen a manager stick with a guy this long

when he has nothing

Shows how much he hates the alternatives

nice frame by heap though

Not Burrell. Hate that douche

i wish he played for us
c´mon Moylan
CRAP

Sac Fly

Diaz arm is absolute Shit

Man…………

Well this sucks...

Good game. Goodnight.

Wow…awesome. If this score sticks we will lose on an unearned run, and RBI groundout, and a freaking sac fly. Sweet.

Plus we couldn't get one damn single with RISP. This game is painful to watch. What a waste if we loose.

This is ridiculous. Thanks Bobby! You idiot.

Bobby isn’t an idiot—never has been, never will be.

Might as well be a walk off
O hey bobby nice to fucking see you
game over??
I see no postgame wrap.
now bobby comes out

WTF did he not pull him?

So we walked the guy (Sandoval) that has grounded into the 2nd most DPs in the league...

Why?

NOW it’s time to pull him?!

this is how you win the division

gg braves

thanks bobby thanks

how could we lose this one?

We lost?

Unless we score in the bottom of the 11th—and not let the Giants score (again).

this team sucks right now

PERIOD!!

I said this last week

this team is not better than the Phillies right now, I could care less what the standings say

i care more about the standings

then a random comment by Jtpdolphins2009. You don’t get into the playoffs based on random comments by Jtpdolphins2009.

you dont get into the playoffs

with 2 errors while leading by 1 run in the 9th inning either

you dont get into the playoffs

based on one game either. I guess Cincinatti won’t get into the playoffs because “you dont get into the playoffs by giving up a 6-run lead in the 9th”

newsflash

we had a 7 game lead in the division not 10 days ago, now its about to be a 1 game lead

guess you are right, the standings do matter; when you lose 6 games in a division in 10 days; YOU ARE NOT THE BEST TEAM IN THE DIVISION

you are

if you’re still leading the division.
remember when we lost 9 in a row and were quite a few games back? Look at us now.

well we arent playing like the best team in the division
there we go

i can agree with that

What the hell? He waits until AFTER Moylan screws us to take him out? Holy god.

can we all recognize that our pitching is NOT the problem here.. wher'es the O?

hi mike. why are you so late?

Bleep you australian jerk off!
LOYAL BOBBY BLOWS ANOTHER ONE
He had 3 more damn pitchers outthere.
MattyD

doesn’t have a cannon arm out there, not that he could have got him anyway, just sayin’

Breaking News

Bobby Cox asleep in dugout. Eventually grumbling home fans wake him up and he realizes that he’s a ML baseball manager.

Why didnt heyward sprint across the field to catch that and then double up Huff?

Too many walks with moylan,

so lets put in dunn

SADLY...

A WIN TONIGHT WOULD ONLY MASK OUR HUGE PROBLEMS

Which are?
inability of late

to hit with RISP.

we are like 2/100 w/ RISP

we really aren’t playing very good defense…pitching is our only bright spot right now

NO OFFENSE

2 SOLO SHOTS, NO RUNS PRODUCED

Hitting w/RISP is very flukey.

Sometimes there is no underlying reason, just unbelievably bad luck.

yup

this is not a 1st place team right now

not really...

 we’re one hot hitter away from lots of O knockin in those stranded runners and we just keep giving up runs real late… we have the pitching its just time to use it at the right time

lately, we had blown a lot of game

1 against Padres
2 against Marlins
1 against Reds
1 against Mets

and know we are blowing 1 against Giants
Looks worse than it actually is.

it looked pretty bad from my seats in dolphin stadium. it sucked

that looks bad to me

and we will blow many more in the near future, i’m afraid

brad lidge syndrome?
fuck this is so frustrating...

that is like the 4th or 5th blown save since the allstar break…we are giving the fucking division away at this point

I think our team needs to look at how the Giants are scoring their runs and try to follow suit. Only hitting solo home runs isn’t going to win us many games.

Yeh, they really need to force more errors and HBPs.

well putting the ball in play with RISP helps...

instead of striking out constantly

Or hit balls to the right side of the infield and into the outfield with men on third….

And here I’m sure they were thinking that striking out was a pretty safe bet. Somebody really needs to tell them they’re misinformed.

I’m not entirely sure what you are trying to point out to me here.

oh well, it was fun while it lasted

gotta get used to this. i won’t be surprised if we’re out of first by next week, the way we’re playing.

could be tomorrow...assuming we don't score any runs int he bottom of the 11th we will have a 1 game lead over the phils
yep, the good teams find ways to win, like the phils have done lately.

us, we find ways to lose.

we're a good team...

just hitting a rough patch…we need to get prado back and we NEED to fix our hole at 1B…sorry glausy but you’ve been awful for 2 months now…

“Good teams don’t win close games—they avoid them.”

That's right - you're leading your division!

What’s that like?

Hey look...

Strikes!

i like who's up right now
:(

Epitome of the braves since the all star break. Terrible managing, losing the close ones, and no fire. Heyward had a good series off the DL now his avg is back below .260. Philly is ONE game back not fucking THIRTY. If the panic button hasn’t been pressed it has to be pressed now. NO way we make the playoffs playing near this type of baseball; disgusting and disheartening

and while I’m in rage mode…QUIT SUCKING BILLY! I know tonight wasn’t all your fault but hasn’t been good at all since the ASB. He’ll he got lucky last night that HR barely missed

I know this isn't the optimat situation to have the club in but....

damn. y’all are depressing.

Depressed people watching depressing teams are depressing.

funny thign when you throw strikes...you get outs
Boys

We are first in come from behind wins..here is another example coming up

now

if we could only score some RUNZ or get HITZ

Now the Braves can fail with RISP—-if that opportunity even arises….

Dunn got it done.
123 inning coming right up.
THE GIANTS OWE US

A LEADOFF BASERUNNER!

so Dunn

is in Bobbys doghouse with KK and Yunel

thats one nasty mohawk
He looks just plain nasty & I don't mean his pitching
Whats our record in extras?
you cant win when you cant hit and more w/RISP

you cant win hitting only HR. i think the last hit we get w/RISP was Ankiel single with bases loaded against Mets

I suppose I’ll put on my rally cap…. sigh

GO BRAVES WOO! WE CAN DO IT! FIRST PLACE BABY!

Sorry, I was sick of everyone being sad and depressing.

come on Chippah
Please no.. I don't want to see this guy do his little cross chest celebration..

it pisses me off when I’m not watching them play the Braves..

They put it on his damned bobblehead.

Him & Torres are neck & neck for most hated Giant.

Fuck the Beach Boys.

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I never have problems, but I am on this new thread.

Help us, Wilson – you’re our only hope.

Look at is this way..

At least we didn’t lose a game on Tommy G day!

I wonder if my comment on the Thanks Bobby! Facebook page will get deleted?

Wilson….please be like Petey!

Time for Chip to redeem himself...
I blame myself

I left in bottom of the 9th thinking, Wagner got this. Now look >:|

Fuck you chipper
tough crowd- went 3/5 with a HR
Plus a fielding error...
He wouldn't have had a lead to boot away if it weren't for him.
seems like a microcosm of the offense lately
Can you attempt to put a good swing on it Diaz?

and hit it?

that would be nice too

for a base hit?

come on Matty

Diaz seems to have no chance here

15 K's today for the offense...that is rough
must be nice to have pitchers who can throw strikes
1 out left for this miserable night

way to go braves

Oh Brian

if you could only pull an inside fastball, for a dinger.

this offense fucking sucks

this is beyond fustrating

Please don't strike out on the high fastball McCann...

please

Can we give Moylan something worse than a loss? Like a punch in his bald head?

This was just a team loss.

All around.

then a round house kick to his muffin top

98mph... jeeeeezus
this is more than a slump

this offense is bad now

definitely agree. you can't win if you don't score
up to Mac now
worst loss of the season??

No….that game against the Padres in their home opener was the Worst game (I think)

I don’t think it’s even loss of the week. This one stings more because of Ump Fail in FLA last night

Rubber game tomorrow.

You’re more generous than Colorado.
Have a better evening.

4 game series, bud
it's a 4 game series
Well, yeah, there's an extra.

I always call the third that.

4 game series.

That was horrific
way to go Braves

you flat out suck right now

WE ARE REALLY GOOD..

AT GROUNDING TO SECOND FUCKN BASE

An error fueled blown save and an extra innings loss.

Frustrating, but it doesn’t really mean anything about the team. It’s just one of those nights.

we have been having those nights a lot lately

when you are up 7 games in the division and then are only up 1 game just 10 days later

There is something very wrong

Exactly. We are pooping ourselves
Shit happens.

Sometimes in an unbelievably long succession of never-ending shit, but it doesn’t necessarily having any true causation.

what are you?

William MFing shakespeare? lol

I can't see real well

is that bill shakespeare over there?

Still, giving any at-bats to Glaus was failure waiting to happen.
ugh

bad loss bad luck and even worse hitting

We 'll get them tomorrow.

Fuck you Bobby!

I just don't get it

The Phillies lose all those big time guys to the DL, and they can’t lose. That is just so disheartening…

just shows how good they are.

Well, to be fair, they did lose last night, but the asshat umping 3rd base probably had money on it.

Still...

It would be beyond unbearable to lose this division to the Phils. I hate them more than anything in the world. I still have faith in the Braves, but the Phillies are winning and hitting WITHOUT Utley, Howard, Victorino, etc. and that is just very disturbing

They won’t keep that up. Their bench is not good. They won’t get to play the Mets every game. And they also won’t get wins handed to them every game. We just have to be patient and realize that when we play them, we will be able to widen our lead in the division.

No I understand.

I still have confidence in this team, but the hate I have for the Phillies is just clouding my thinking right now

People have been saying that for weeks now, who knows maybe they will

I really hate losing games like this. I like to at least feel like the other team just outplayed us, but the fact his we handed them this game on a silver platter. Seems like we have been doing that a lot lately.

It honestly felt like we wanted to lose

The offense has transcended bad and entered a realm of extreme ass sucking. that game was fubar. Fuck.

wow

we should’ve won that one…phils 1 gb…

That's a backbreaking loss.

This season is fucking over. Congratulations to the Phillies on their 4th consecutive NL East title.

The Phillies won the division? That nap must have been a couple months longer than I planned on it being.

so much for a big send off to bobby. send him to the showers.
This game is annoying, but lets' not get crazy. They are not even in 1st yet.

But we need to do something about 1st base & the OF. And Bobby needs to use more than 4 RP.

Stop being such a debbie downer dude.

Still love you though. <3

i didnt feel like this before

but call up Freeman. DL Troy

Another EPIC FAIL
I'm starting to get used to it.

This way, I won’t get disappointed come playoff time.

I am amazed the Braves are still in 1st with way they are playing!
The recap is going to be mighty depressing

hopefully mvhsbaseball or whoever can cheer us up.

Braves got 6 hits, 3 from Chipper

WTF

and 1 big error to get the go-ahead run for the Giants
but before that, Wagner HBP
Yep, then AGON error
that was ominous

Well it’s really no secret that we struggle against lefties. And Diaz had a big 0-fer which didn’t help, especially since he is supposed to rake lefties. And Glaus can’t get a hit to save his life right now. So those two struggling makes a team that already has trouble with lefties look even worse. The problem is, our solution to the Glaus problem probably won’t be any better against lefties.

Prado needs to get back like last week!
There are glaring holes in this lineup right now that will ultimately keep us from deep postseason play

Our pitching can only cover our asses for so long

Hardly. Glaus is the only glaring hole right now. And if he doesn’t get it turned around, we have a guy in the minors who can probably help. If he does get it turned around, it’s going to make this offense explode, just like it did in May and June.

Yup.

The same holes that have been there ALL YEAR.

while were at it

TRADE HANSON NOT A WINNAR

This game,

based on context, pissed me of more than any other this year. Welcome back April.

wow, worse loss of the season...probably and hopefully (that's it)

I’m really, really depressed by this loss

Can’t believe we gave them two runs without the benefit of a hit. This was just terrible. I need to refrain from banging my head on my laptop or desk.

if things don't change quick

division is all but loss

You have to believe.
i believe

but its hard with how glaus is hitting, and we didnt make an jaw dropping move at the deadline

Speak for yourself. I saw the name "Ankiel" and my jaw DROPPED.

(Guess the punchline.)

After a game like that...

Give as many people the day off as possible, let Melky play right for a game or two, Ross should get a start tomorrow, And give Chipper/Infante the day off.

So we can make sure we lose tomorrow too?
At least Hudson is on the mound tomorrow.
and we had Hanson tonight, allowed just 3 hits and 1 run

though that run was his fault because he cant hold the runner

Note to Bobby: DO NOT PITCH WAGNER TOMORROW.

Also, as much as losing this game sucks major balls, the Braves are still in first. Who knows? The Phillies could start losing tomorrow and the Braves could start hitting again and getting their big lead back.

There are 53 more games left. The season is not over.

The problem is,

while the braves are trending downward, the Phillies are trending upward.

and without all their star players

How does anyone know if the Phillies will win tomorrow? Saturday will be Santana vs. Hamels while we have Tim Hudson pitching. There’s a good chance the Braves can win tomorrow and the Phillies will lose.

I expect the Braves to break their funk tomorrow and when all is said and done, the Braves will be the ones winning the East.

Braves hitting RISP since ASG

.181 (34-188), the last RBI hit was Ankiel against the Mets. Diaz and Glaus had hit w/RISP in that game but the runner didnt score.

The Braves had surrendered the lead against
Padre (1)
Marlins (2 times)
Reds (1)
Mets(1)
Giants(1)

That means if we won all those games, it would be 3 more games lead.

Playing like this you cant win and probably you will lose the lead of the Division

You can cross off the Marlins losses.

They don’t count due to the Fish being complete evil.

I'm more shocked they they got 34 hits.

One the plus side, this means a wicked hot streak w/ RISP is just around the corner.

lmao I love all these comments

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“fuck society”

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