The Atlanta Braves stumbled last week. The Braves went 1-5 on their most recent road trip, a swing across the West Coast, only winning one game against the Seattle Mariners and then getting swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Atlanta Braves have not had a good week. Finishing their most recent road trip with a 1-5, Atlanta’s coming off of a sweep at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers and now find themselves in unfamiliar territory - in 2nd place, sitting two and half games back of the Philadelphia Phillies, who are 9-1 in their last ten games.
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.
The Seattle Mariners' decision to trade Jarred Kelenic to the Atlanta Braves this offseason came as quite a surprise given the apparent up-and-coming status of both the Mariners and Kelenic.
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.
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.
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.
The Atlanta Braves fell victim to the longball and dropped the final game of the series 5-1 versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, getting swept for the first time on the 2024 season.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Atlanta Braves (20-11) play on Sunday at 4:10 PM ET against the Los Angeles Dodgers (22-13), who enter the contest with a three-game winning streak.
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.
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He did miss most of the 2022 season due to forearm tendinitis, so his recent injury history does have a prominent arm-related issue.
The Atlanta Braves are set, for the most part, when it comes to position players in the major leagues. Atlanta's in the rare position of having a fully locked in position player core, with all eight defensive starters under team control for multiple seasons after this one.
The 30-year-old is in his final option year.
The Atlanta Braves have meticulously constructed a farm system brimming with pitching talent, a brilliant approach that has positioned them as a perennial World Series threat.
Atlanta Braves third baseman Austin Riley struggled throughout April, but he remained confident in his approach and that he would eventually get results.
As expected, the Atlanta Braves are off to a great start this season. In a recent article by ESPN, they received a solid grade of an “A” for their performance in April.
Some obvious obstacles exist — he will be 35 in November 2025 and is essentially a DH-only player at this point in his career
This weekend's series between the Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Guardians features the top team in both the American and National Leagues, but it was the home team that came out swinging in Friday night's heavyweight battle.
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