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At just over a month into the 2024 MLB season, sportsbooks seem fairly confident that the Los Angeles Dodgers will win the World Series. Which begs the question: Who out West can stop them?
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How soon we forget that at this point in the season, the 2023 Braves were playing a lot like the 2024 Braves are this year. That provides reasons for optimism for the team’s offense.
After being swept in Los Angeles by the Dodgers, the Atlanta Braves hold a 20-12 record with one-fifth of the 2024 season in the books.
Ignoring the NL East division standings for a moment, there are a lot of parallels between where the 2023...
The White Sox’s fall from grace should be studied. Once viewed in a similar light as the Braves, featuring a young team appearing on the cusp of something special, they have quickly reverted back to being one of the worst teams in all of baseball not even a half decade later.
The Braves were swept for the first time all season in Los Angeles, wrapping up a western road trip in which they lost five of six games. This is a team that appears in need of a jolt of energy, particularly offensively, and they may get one in the coming weeks.
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Young hard throwing Jhancarlos Lara made his season debut on Sunday and struck out five over three innings.
Sunday saw the season debut of pitching prospect Jhancarlos Lara with Rome, and although he only got to pitch three innings, he had no trouble picking up a bunch of strikeouts. Lara wasn’t the only pitching prospect to have a strong outing, as Luis De Avila had a shutout going through six and a third innings...
Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesBraves Franchise History
1951 - The Boston Braves are no-hit in the second game of a doubleheader 3-0 by Pirates pitcher Cliff Chambers. Chambers walked eight batters and also threw a wild pitch.
2010 - David Ross breaks up Scott Olsen’s no-hit bid with a single in the eighth. Olson had retired 22 of the first 23 hitters he faced. The Braves tie the game up, but the Nationals win on a pinch-hit single by Willie Harris in the ninth.
2011 - Derek...
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One of the toughest road trips for the Braves in quite a while.
On one hand, the Braves do not fair well when visiting Seattle or Dodger Stadium.
On the road, they are 2-6 against the Mariners and 6-21 against the Dodgers since 2014. However, this version of the Braves is better than most in franchise history, at least on paper. The simple truth that was validated by a 1-5 road trip for the Braves is that right now, the Braves are simply not playing up...
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The Braves suffer their first sweep and three-game losing streak of the year as Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers disposed of them without much effort
Well, mark this down, retrospectively, as one of the not-uncommon Atlanta Braves West Coast Road Trips From Hell. After a sweep at the hands of the Dodgers, the Braves complete their first sojourn to the Pacific Coast with a 1-5 record, and probably, a fair bit of consternation.
Really, this game was all...
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Max Fried vs. James Paxton
Here we go again.
Preview: here
Lineups: here
Statcast graphic: below, maybe, once Statcast actually has it ready, which it doesn’t for some reason
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The Dodgers are also throwing a bunch of right-handed batters against Max Fried
Unsurprisingly, the Braves are starting Adam Duvall and Chadwick Tromp on Sunday afternoon. Tromp gets the start due to ye olde “day game after a night game” thing; Duvall gets the start because Los Angeles hurler James Paxton propels baseballs with his left arm.
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— Atlanta Braves...Bryce Elder came into Saturday night’s game with a 1.50 ERA in two starts since being called up from AAA Gwinnett, but the billion dollar Dodgers lineup posed a much more significant threat than the Marlins and Guardians.
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Max Fried gets the ball in his old stomping ground seeking to push the Braves to a 2-4 road trip.
As they tend to be, it’s been one of those West Coast trips for these Braves so far. The Braves ended last weekend with a win over the Guardians that gave them an MLB best 19-7 record and a 1.5-game division lead. Since then, they’ve been hobbled to a 1-4 stretch that’s seen them fall behind both the Phillies and the Orioles in the best record...
Yesterday, the Braves placed reliever Pierce Johnson on the IL with elbow inflammation and added Jackson Stephens to the active roster. Any elbow related injury is going to raise some concerns.
There probably aren’t five players with bigger moments in Braves franchise history than Tyler Matzek. The hard-throwing lefty made the ground at Truist Park shake following his dazzling performance in Game 6 of the 2021 NLCS a few years ago, coming in with the tying runner on and striking out the side.
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Maier and Hackenberg were ground ball machines in A ball on Saturday
It was a slightly fuller schedule for the Atlanta Braves system on Saturday, as the rookie-level Florida Complex League opened played. It was also a full day of pitching, with interesting prospects going at every level including last season’s second round pick Drue Hackenberg
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Forrest Wall, LF: 2-3,...Braves Franchise History
1929 - The Boston Braves play their first Sunday home game ever, losing to the Pirates 7-2.
1935 - Dizzy Dean faces 40-year old Babe Ruth as the Cardinals take on the Braves at Braves Field. Dean walked Ruth in his first at-bat then struck him out in his second plate appearance. Dean won the game 7-0 and homered in his first at-bat.
MLB History1904 - Cy Young tosses the second of his three no-hitters, a 3-0 perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics. Young...
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Atlanta Braves news and notes from Saturday
The Braves lost as their pitching, primarily Bryce Elder got shelled on Saturday night. Elder continues to struggle to miss bats, issue far too many walks, and allow far too many home runs for his profile as a pitcher, so it remains a question of how viable he is at the major league level. That being said, even with a good pitching staff, which they have, this team cannot expect to win as many games as they are hope to...
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Bryce Elder was no match for the Dodgers lineup as the offense continued to be MIA.
The Braves faced their biggest obstacle of the season on Saturday night as Bryce Elder went head-to-head with Tyler Glasnow, arguably the best starter in baseball through the first month of the season. The outcome went as most probably expected: Elder was rocked by the L.A. lineup, and the Braves’ bats were absent once again in an 11-2 loss.
Over the last week, the Braves...
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Check out more on the quite lopsided pitching matchup in the game preview here. Both teams are running it back with the same lineups as last night today. The Braves have a tough challenge with Tyler Glasnow on the mound for LA and Bryce Elder pitching for Atlanta behind a struggling Atlanta offense. First pitch at Dodger Stadium is scheduled for 9:10 p.m. ET and can be seen on Bally Sports South.
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In case you missed it, Pierce Johnson has been placed on the 15-day IL with elbow inflammation. In a corresponding move Jackson Stephens has taken his place on the active roster.