Braves Report

The Braves breezed to and easy victory today, which was nice. If Tex starts hitting, like he did today, the Braves will abruptly find themselves the best team in baseball. Tex will see better pitches to hit, Chipper will start seeing better pitches to hit. (Not that he is doing badly now). Anyway, I’m about ready for this lineup to start producing like we all know it can, not this amazing one day, poor the next crap.

Campy was awesome, again. How did this guy not make the team out of spring training? In three starts, he has given up one run, ONE! I don’t think it gets too much better than that! He is sitting on an ERA of .99. His line on the night, five innings pitched, four hits, one run, six strikeouts. Once he gets over this blister problem, he’ll be able to get deeper in the game. The pen had another great outing. Scoreless inning by Bennett. Boyer pitched .2 innings scoreless. Acosta 1.1 innings scoreless. Most importantly, the return of Rafael Soriano! He also pitched scoreless inning.

The bats had a good night tonight, Tex in particular. Tex drove in four runs on two hits, one of them a three run home run. It was nice to see a team getting hurt after walking Chipper to get to Tex. Quite a few other Braves had good nights at the plate. Escobar had three hits and scored (glorified utility infielder my ass). KJ had two hits, scored a run and drove in two. Chipper lifted his gaudy average with two hits. The Braves pounded out 12 hits and walked 11 times.

Braves win easy, 8-1.

Tomorrow’s game, 7:10 PM. Not nationally televised.

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