Braves Report

There’s two reasons why I’m combining the recaps for the Braves’ series against the Mets. One: I’m exhausted as I finish my final year of college. Two: the Braves were just terrible. Let’s go.

From a pitching standpoint, Kawakami, Jurrjens, and Hanson were actually pretty decent. I don’t know when Jurrjens is going to win his first game if the offense doesn’t provide him with any run support. Hanson was phenomenal, while only pitching 5 innings a rain-shortened game, he struck out 8 and gave up an unearned run. Kawakami and Jurrjens only gave up 3 runs in their respective starts. The bullpen wasn’t all that bad, either. They were worse than they have been, but still not terrible.

That word is reserved for the offense. I don’t know what happened this weekend, but they just looked out of it. This included a stupid base-running blunder by Escobar that cost the Braves a run on Saturday. They could only provide the Braves with 3 runs in the 24 innings that they batted, which was just not enough to win anything.

The three losses dropped the Braves from first place to last in the division (8-10) and gave them a record below .500, all the while being swept by the Mets.

Let’s not do that again.

Braves drop game 16, 5-2.

Braves lose game 17, 3-1.

Braves get beat in game 18, 1-0.