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.
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.
The Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Atlanta Braves over the weekend, finishing it off with a 5-1 win on Sunday afternoon at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers took it to the Braves for all three games in what could be a National League Championship Series preview.
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.
Coming off their worst stretch of baseball in what feels like years, the Braves head back to Truist Park to take on the Red Sox for a two-game set beginning on Tuesday.
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.
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
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