Braves Report

The Braves lost on the road. The Braves lost a one run game. The Braves lost in extra innings. What’s next? Will I learn the sun rises in the east? The sky is blue? A frog’s behind is, in fact, water tight? This whole thing is getting pretty old.

Yeah, so I plagiarized my first paragraph from yesterday, but seriously, does it matter?

What an ugly game. Jurrjenns didn’t have it from the get go, giving us, quite possibly, his worse outing of the season. He threw 40+ pitches in the first and the reds batted around. In the end, he only managed 4.1 innings allowing NINE hits and SIX walk. Oh, he also gave up six runs. A very poor outing, but so far they have been few and far between. Ring pitched a very effective 1.2 innings, including stranded all the runners when he came in with the bases loaded. Bennett then gave us 1.1 innings, very effective. Ohman and Boyer each got a batter out. Here is where things started to go down hill. Soriano allowed the tying run to cross, then Acosta the winning.

Even with the poor pitching, the bats gave us every chance to win and for a time, it looked like we were. KJ lifted his batting average up to .300 with two hits. Tex launched a a three run home run with one of his two hits. Chipper reached base five times with thee walks and a hit. Finally Frenchy had two hits, one of which looked like was going to be the game winning home run.

Braves lose (again) in extras, 7 – 8.

Tomorrow’s game 1:15 PM. Not nationally televised.

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