Braves Report

Today didn’t go as the Braves hoped. Chipper sidelined with back spasms. Escobar’s finger still giving him trouble. Lillibridge as an emergency call up. Huddy unimpressive. None of these things really indicated that we were going to have a good day.

Huddy endured another rough outing. He was great the first two innings, but in the third the Mets just teed off on him. He says it isn’t physical, but he doesn’t know what the cause is. Anyway, he went 3 innings, gave up four runs on seven hits. The pen was outstanding tonight, they picked up the remaining 5 innings without allowing another run. Carlyle went 1.1 innings, one hit. In came Ring to get the lefty, he did. Bennett was once again called on for a relief roll. He was stellar, 1.1 innings only 1 hit. Campy ended it, going 2 innings, no hits, one walk.

It’s really a shame the bats couldn’t pick it up after our relievers did such an outstanding job keeping us in the game. They came close, but came up short, giving us another one run loss (who didn’t see that coming?). It was something of a AAA lineup, Prado, Blanco & Lillibridge all starting. The only Brave to manage more than one hit was Prado with 2. Tex and Frenchy each had a double.

Tomorrow’s game, 1:10 PM. Not nationally televised.

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