The Atlanta Braves continue to lead the National League East. Chris Sale just clinched a series sweep for the Braves against the Los Angeles Dodgers with a dominant shutout performance, as Atlanta earned a 1-0 victory on Wednesday. However, the Braves received a couple of unfortunate injury updates on Thursday, via Mark Bowman of MLB.com. […]
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New series, new lineup. The homestand continues with the Colorado Rockies in town for the weekend. For tonight’s opener, Walt Weiss has made some adjustments: Lots to unpack here, but my eyes went straight to the cleanup spot. Ronald Acuña Jr., after having a night off yesterday, will return to right field and hit fourth […]
The Dodgers had a rough go of things in Atlanta, dropping all three games to the Braves, just like two weeks prior when the Milwaukee Brewers took three out of four games in Los Angeles. The rest of the schedule for the last 18 days has been the opposite, with the Dodgers collecting three sweeps […]
The Atlanta Braves shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday night, and Chris Sale was at the front and centre of it. The Braves completed a three-game sweep with a 1-0 victory at Truist Park. Though things looked a little different even before the game, Braves manager Walt Weiss also noticed a different kind […]
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It’s not difficult to make the case that Chris Sale has anchored the Atlanta Braves this season. Entering play on […]
It was a night to remember for Chris Sale and the Atlanta Braves, who completed the sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers after Thursday’s 1-0 win. Sale was dominant, throwing his first shutout since 2019. He went the distance, throwing a complete game and allowing just five hits. He struck out 11. Drake Baldwin accounted […]
Shohei Ohtani ending a game stranded at third base with a leadoff triple. An .066 hitter coming up huge with a walk-off hit. A game ending 1-0 where the only run was scored on the first pitch of the game for the winning team. We all know that baseball is a deeply weird sport and […]
The Atlanta Braves achieved something on Thursday that they had not done since President Benjamin Harrison was in office. All-Star catcher Drake Baldwin continued to punish the Los Angeles Dodgers, belting a 403-foot leadoff home run off Yoshinobu Yamamoto. That was all the run support Chris Sale needed, as he emerged victorious in an epic […]
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Atlanta Braves ace Chris Sale must have been seeing red all night long as he faced the Los Angeles Dodgers at home in the finale of a four-game series. Sale was a man on a mission, and his dominant outing lasted the entire night as he threw a complete game shutout, leading the Braves to […]
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The catcher position in baseball is constantly in a state of evolution, and this could not have been more apparent on Thursday. For instance, Atlanta Braves catcher Drake Baldwin proved to be the difference on offense on Thursday in a 1-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers, as he hit a leadoff home run in […]
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The Los Angeles Dodgers were swept by the Braves in Atlanta, and these players are most to blame for the demoralizing effort.
Chris Sale is a consummate ace. It seems unlikely that anyone would contest this at this point, but if they ever do… just point ‘em at this game. In a marquee pitching matchup that featured Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the other side, it was Sale and the Braves that prevailed, as the grizzled southpaw gave Atlanta […]
“Untouchable” defined the performance of Chris Sale, outdueling Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a battle of aces that lived up to expectations as the Braves won 1-0. Raising their respective games up to the occasion, Yamamoto and Sale made true on the standard assumption that great pitching beats great hitting, operating as the two best players in […]
The Dodgers install a righty-heavy lineup to face Chris Sale, trying to avoid getting swept by the Braves. Thursday game info
Chris Sale battles another ace.
Walt Weiss pushed the right button once again in a key Atlanta Braves victory.
Atlanta Braves manager Walt Weiss reacted to a mistake made by right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr.
The Dodgers lost the first two games of this series against the Atlanta Braves in the home team’s last at-bat, which has been a trend of late, with five of their 12 losses in August including the winning run scored in the eighth inning or later. We’ve talked a lot about how the Dodgers went […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers have hit some turbulence recently, losing the first two games of their series against the Atlanta Braves this week. The Dodgers are also dealing with some injuries, with closer Edwin Diaz looking to return soon as he deals with a neck ailment. Now, Dodgers insider David Vassegh of AM 570 LA […]
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Ha-Seong Kim will grab all the headlines Thursday morning, and rightfully so — movie directors couldn’t have written that script. But the performance from Sean Murphy last night shouldn’t get lost in Kim’s heroics. The veteran catcher, who has spent most of the season on the IL, played in back-to-back games for the second time […]
One is the number. What number, you may ask? One win that the Dodgers look for before leaving Atlanta? One-run losses as the theme of this series against the Braves? One unequivocally poor performance in a season’s worth of games for Chris Sale, who in all but one of his 23 starts this season has […]
The Atlanta Braves earned a 6-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday after Ha-Seong Kim came through with a clutch walk-off hit in the bottom of the 9th inning. Kim has had a difficult season between injuries and underperformance, but he displayed why the Braves have continued to trust him on Wednesday night. […]
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It’s never too early to start looking ahead, and that’s exactly what Mark Feinsand did at MLB.com, ranking the top 10 players set to test free agency this offseason. The list is, admittedly, pretty lackluster outside of a few names, but most of them should be on the Braves’ radar, especially with so much money […]
All told it was a banner day down on the farm as both the pitching and offense was in top form from triple-A to low-A. Let’s dive into it all. (64-63) Gwinnett Stripers 5, (57-69) Louisville Bats 2 Box Score In what could best be described as an improbable run, Brett Sears continues to flash […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Atlanta Braves game on Wednesday proved that home runs aren’t the only deciding factor in MLB when batters are willing to grind out singles. The game also showed that the back-to-back World Series champions are not invincible and that a pinch-hitter who hadn’t recorded a hit in nearly three months […]
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