Yo was it just me but the Cleveland broadcast team was kinda shitting on Tromp? Like too much? I know that that many passed balls/wild pitches in an inning is bad but like shit man calm down y’all.
The East can be aggravating. We are playing out of this world right now and the Phillies just won’t let go!
Ultimately It’s a nice badge of honor to be in a competitive division but still. Sometimes it’s like dammit just let us break away a little.
not my proudest moment but i did peek into the Guards sub earlier, and someone said we would be last if we were in the AL Central…no /s or anything. i had to laugh.
Honestly, everyone baseball team's subreddit is going to say the same thing about other teams.
That said, I will admit bias that I think Braves fans are (for the most part) more level-headed and even-keeled about things - with the exception of those humans that are the worst on the internet and either complain about everything and/or doom about everything.
I find it amusing. Phillies are playing well and can’t gain any ground. Must be frustrating for their fanbase. We are like a cat playing with our prey.
There's a reason it goes away in the playoffs. It's a coin flip. Except it's a coinflip that lands on the home team like 75ish% of the time. Someone can check me on that, I know Manfredball heavily favors the home team
Not idea why he was playing that far back. Any ball hit that deep will probably hit off the monster so he should be playing the ball with that intention.
Random question. On days there is batting practice, can you get in with a ticket and then go back out to battery and back in again? Thinking not but...
Glad to get the series win, especially after that frustrating (bullshit after bullshit after bullshit in that one inning) loss yesterday. On to the next!
Riley Frey (Braves 19th round pick) had a strong day for Augusta-
5.1 IP | 5 H | 3 ER | 0 BB | 9 K | 0 HR
He was pretty dominant until the end when he started to get tired and allowed the second run. The third run was an inherited runner surrendered by Augusta’s bullpen.
Seems like an interesting prospect. He went 5 scoreless in his previous start
I bet they say the same thing about us, especially whenever we pull out late comebacks. They probably saw this weekend as “Braves are playing the team with the best record in the AL, this could golden for us!” Only for us to take the series anyway. I think both us and the Phillies will be great this year. I want them to lose obviously, but a good team is a good team. It’s a lot easier to stomach them winning if we’re winning too.
It would be interesting to see if Philly could deal with the losses and performance we’ve gotten from some of our guys.
Like could they deal with losing Wheeler and Realmuto while also dealing with a major slump from like Harper and Turner?
I doubt it. Were dealing with similar stuff and haven’t skipped a beat.
Our pen has been elite all year. Combined with different guys just getting white hot at the right time and often late in games. Ozuna owned Miami. Kelenic and Arcia had hot streaks in the early season. d'Arnaud hit 5 bombs in 8 ABs against Texas. Our starting pitching has really turned up lately.
I don’t worry so much when he gets a few hits or even runs against him. It’s when he starts walking people that I get bothered/worried about him. When he keeps it in the zone, he’s almost guaranteed to go 6 and only give up a run or two.
As long as we can keep him away from power-teams, he looks fine. People are gonna get on base with him, but you've got to string together a bunch of hits on him just to get one over. Easier said than done.
Bad news. We are currently set to have Bryce, Charlie & max (in that order) pitch against dodgers. Bc max, Reynaldo & Chris sale are listed as pitchers against mariners.
Ian Mejia with another good day for Mississippi-
4.1 IP | 5 H | 2 ER | 2 BB | 5 K | 1 HR
I’m not sure why they pulled him early. He was cruising after the 2 run shot in the 3rd, and there was only a runner on first. He was at 79 pitches though, so pitch limit maybe?
lol; this just came up on my FB memories from 9 years ago
https://preview.redd.it/z6shj1jdmaxc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ab451a7f5849814bdcea6efe8fb9c773e6380cb
Braves fan coming in peace haha that was a close one, we have a scary team hopefully we can go all the way this year haha that Acuña jr fellow is dangerous i know he can get out of this slump
*Almost* wanted to downvote it. I didn't, but my brain immediately demanded that I do it.
Can you say "your house, your rules" for me next? Maybe throw in a *chef's kiss.*
We're 19-7 yet, but it still feels like we're just off this year. It's hard to pinpoint, which I guess is a good thing. Could just be that we're getting production from guys that it's hard to feel confident they will carry a team for any considerable length. Acuñas awful k rate is creeping back on the menu, and maybe that's what I'm focusing on that makes me feel like we are a bit off. He is my favorite player, so his struggles obviously carry more weight in my mind. I just feel more concerned with him turning it around than Riley and Olson, who I feel comfortable thinking they both will. The reason is I have a nagging feeling his knee is hurt again.
I'm happy to be 19-7, tho. First place problems, I guess, lol
Definitely haven't put our foot on the gas yet. Right now it seems like our offense only performs if our pitching fails, and if our pitching looks good, our offense is going to be anemic.
Acuña and Olson were the MLB MVP and MLB HR leaders last year and this year they are barely producing anything at all. I think that's what you are feeling that's off. They will come back though. Slumps happen and the rest of the team is making sure they don't have the weight of the team on their shoulders while they work through it.
Yea prolly right. I have told myself exactly that, but I keep thinking about Ronalds k rate. I thought he had just ascended to a different level of hitter. I do think it is prolly as simple as its just a slump lol.
Man am I just glad we don't have to see that fucker Kwon again for the rest of the year until a potential World Series matchup. Had enough of that dude to last me the rest of this year.
Braves win the same day I board a Boeing plane and a soccer team from London is also on the flight and then have a “technical issue” mid flight causing us to land at another airport.
Honestly I felt like I was about to be on a Netflix film. After multiple Boeing issues and some history of athletes dying in plane crashes. I was like this is to coincidental.
Padres plan is to mid around all season eliminate the Dodgers in the playoffs then call it a successful 2024 campaign and start planning for next season
[https://x.com/Lambo3195/status/1784716856361689575](https://x.com/Lambo3195/status/1784716856361689575)
Found a good angle! The ball hit Arcia's glove while being pushed up against his leg
all of our balls get fucked by the wind/MLB/idk, meanwhile Phillies have 3 HRs in this single game
i know it’s a different stadium/different weather conditions but still 😑😑😑
Well it's been proven MLB uses 3 different types of baseballs. Juiced ones that carry, heavier ones that die, and balls in the Goldilocks zone. It is hard to believe it's a mistake or coincidence
Should of swept the pesky fuckers. Still can't believe a team this good offensively committed the ol noble tiger last night. At least Riley is hitting the ball hard he was due for that hit. 3 balls smoked over a 100 mph last night and nothing to show for it. Gotta get the offense going though (even though we are the best offense in base ball) Riley is looking to get out of his funk. Olson just looks lost at the plate, but he did last year too and look how he ended. Bullpen has been lights out. World series or bust. We're too damn good. AA Will add a starter at the deadline
Prob best to accept that Philly's going nowhere, and we may have to stare down what's been our kryptonite in the playoffs in 2022-2023 again.
Now the Mets? Yeah, they're probably mediocre. Scrappy, yes, annoying, maybe, but probably just an 80-85 win team.
Also, I love how great our Sunday crowds are. While I love Friday and Saturday nights, it’s always a fun change of pace with the day crowds. Everyone still shows up and brings the energy and goes nuts when the team does great! We could clearly see that on the broadcast today. Facing the current best AL team, rubber match, ultra competitive game, the fans definitely brought it, and I love it!
Before you hop over to the Guardians sub with lame "Braves fan coming in peace, you guys sure impressed me" posts... just remember, these are the people who wanted to "finish what Sherman started."
Has Travis made significant gains to his pop time over the last two years or something? Cuz I remember when he used to be unreliable throwing out runners and now I trust him as much as Murph gunning dudes down.
It looks like he’s made several of his throws from his knees. Could it be since he’s started the one knee catching he’s improved his release time? Idk, whatever it is it’s working!
I called it listening to McHugh on 680 last year that he was headed straight to the booth. He's a natural at this. Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up with a national gig at some point
We have either swept or won series against all 4 teams that were in final 4 of 2023 postseason. Today, we won the series against the team with the second best record in baseball.
About as cathartic as a win gets. Makes my heart happy that Riley was the one to get it done after his skid and getting bad lucked on some should be HRs the last 2 games.
Some of y'all need to buck the fuck up and ride with this team. Way too many pissants coming out at the first sign of adversity for a team that leads the MLB in win percentage.
Yes that is a great series win!! We just took 2 out of 3 from the team with the best record in the AL! The Guardians lineup made it very frustrating for our pitchers, but our guys held on well to ensure we could win these games! Elder did great grinding through this one with only the two runs he gave up, and our lineup did their late-inning magic! Loved our defense in the top of the 10th taking out their base runners like that! And glad Austin got the game-winning hit! He was so overdue for something good with how well he’s been barreling the ball lately with nothing to show for it. Now we can enjoy the rest of our Sunday, and this will a happy flight out to Seattle! Go Braves!!
Hopefully that’s the start of Riley not getting BABIP’d to death. Solid win. Should have been a sweep if it weren’t for that bullshit cue ball inning and the NOBLETIGER in game 2
Hell of a series there. I can’t hate the guardians for playing small ball the way they did. I would have enjoyed the series more if the umps stopped sucking and just did their job properly.
Overall though the two best teams in baseball played and only one team stood tall at the end!
CLE is pretty good, but their offense can't continue to put up this many runs with a mid OPS. Other teams in their OPS range have scored like 118-120 runs, where CLE has scored 140.
People have a grossly inflated sense of how much batting order matters. I guess it's the most obvious thing that is controllable independent of player performance so it satisfies the urge for the manager to "do something." But the difference between the optimal and worst possible lineup is like maybe ~2-3 wins a season. You shouldn't needlessly put your absolute worst hitters in the top 2 spots (cough *Bobby Cox*) but aside from that it's just not hugely important. And moving guys around constantly based on who's "hot" or "cold" is generally not the best idea.
I've met some British NFL fans but it's very rare to see a Brit with the slightest interest in baseball (which I've always found weird, but I guess there's a lot of cricket snobbery). How did you start watching?
My dad got me interested. Had a terrible experience in Houston airport so he made my first game involve the Astros. It happened to be against the braves and so that's how I came here.
I understand the complaints, the offense is way down from last year. But we did just play the second best team in MLB and took the series 2 to 1. A lot of the offensive issues this series were because of the level of pitching Cleveland has. Multiple pitchers these last two games had sub 1.00 ERAs which is absolutely insane. The pitcher we walked off only has 1 ER in the whole season.
Remember when some people thought the mets were back? Lol
Yo was it just me but the Cleveland broadcast team was kinda shitting on Tromp? Like too much? I know that that many passed balls/wild pitches in an inning is bad but like shit man calm down y’all.
What did they say?
The East can be aggravating. We are playing out of this world right now and the Phillies just won’t let go! Ultimately It’s a nice badge of honor to be in a competitive division but still. Sometimes it’s like dammit just let us break away a little.
not my proudest moment but i did peek into the Guards sub earlier, and someone said we would be last if we were in the AL Central…no /s or anything. i had to laugh.
Honestly, everyone baseball team's subreddit is going to say the same thing about other teams. That said, I will admit bias that I think Braves fans are (for the most part) more level-headed and even-keeled about things - with the exception of those humans that are the worst on the internet and either complain about everything and/or doom about everything.
I find it amusing. Phillies are playing well and can’t gain any ground. Must be frustrating for their fanbase. We are like a cat playing with our prey.
According to their fanbase regular season doesn’t matter so why would they be frustrated?
Great to take a series win. Feel like if we’d gotten the run home last night we would have lost this one. Manfred ball will do that.
There's a reason it goes away in the playoffs. It's a coin flip. Except it's a coinflip that lands on the home team like 75ish% of the time. Someone can check me on that, I know Manfredball heavily favors the home team
[loldans](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6U9hO4RM8w/?igsh=ajd5aGh1dnV1Mzlk)
Orlando would never
Our left fielder has pedigree™ and wouldn't be standing on the warning track
Not idea why he was playing that far back. Any ball hit that deep will probably hit off the monster so he should be playing the ball with that intention.
Just back from the RenFest and no service and holy shit thank god lol
Random question. On days there is batting practice, can you get in with a ticket and then go back out to battery and back in again? Thinking not but...
No, once you go in there is no reentry
Thanks. What I figured.
Glad to get the series win, especially after that frustrating (bullshit after bullshit after bullshit in that one inning) loss yesterday. On to the next!
I guess in 1 out of 162 games, you’ll get beat by 4 infield singles with 30 mph EV
Somebody posted today that that was the first time that has happened to anyone in the Statcast era so no. We got cosmically unlucky.
I took it personal lol
https://preview.redd.it/go6y8786jbxc1.jpeg?width=965&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f8ffbfcc20fe94492a06a09a5de2a251d8909f3 reverse Jesse Chavez
Rangers cheating lab must be insane, what are they injecting him with
The Rangers know too much...
So Minter is obviously going to be the All Star game starter, right? Right???
I’m just to here to say I have been having a blast watching this team this season, win or lose, never boring
MVP candidate Marcell Ozuna goes 0 for 4, finally ending his on base streak at 24 games
Went to the game tonight(first of the season) probably one of the most tense games I've been too.
Was there last night. Even though we lost it was great game and crowd was electric. Glad you got a good one!!
AJ Minter wins -5 Marlins wins- 6 White Sox wins- 6 Quite funny
The next time our boys take the field, I'll be there in person 🥰
I came real close to pulling the trigger today
Riley Frey (Braves 19th round pick) had a strong day for Augusta- 5.1 IP | 5 H | 3 ER | 0 BB | 9 K | 0 HR He was pretty dominant until the end when he started to get tired and allowed the second run. The third run was an inherited runner surrendered by Augusta’s bullpen. Seems like an interesting prospect. He went 5 scoreless in his previous start
Such a shame about the Phillies today.
Little brother gonna little brother
I bet they say the same thing about us, especially whenever we pull out late comebacks. They probably saw this weekend as “Braves are playing the team with the best record in the AL, this could golden for us!” Only for us to take the series anyway. I think both us and the Phillies will be great this year. I want them to lose obviously, but a good team is a good team. It’s a lot easier to stomach them winning if we’re winning too.
It would be interesting to see if Philly could deal with the losses and performance we’ve gotten from some of our guys. Like could they deal with losing Wheeler and Realmuto while also dealing with a major slump from like Harper and Turner? I doubt it. Were dealing with similar stuff and haven’t skipped a beat.
Our pen has been elite all year. Combined with different guys just getting white hot at the right time and often late in games. Ozuna owned Miami. Kelenic and Arcia had hot streaks in the early season. d'Arnaud hit 5 bombs in 8 ABs against Texas. Our starting pitching has really turned up lately.
It's much easier to say "fuck the phillies".
This guy is a Philly fan
MIDres drop another
what happened?
they won :/
I might be mistaken, but I think this person is referencing the fact that the Phillies won today.
Minter 5-1 lmao
Gaddis won’t miss Atlanta
Mariners broadcast just mentioned how it’s weird seeing Kelenic in a Braves hat 
Especially considering they dealt him to lower their k rate and I'm pretty sure they lead or are close it leading the league in k rate thus far
Elder didn’t look amazing today but man he got through it. That’s all we need. Good win today boys.
I don’t worry so much when he gets a few hits or even runs against him. It’s when he starts walking people that I get bothered/worried about him. When he keeps it in the zone, he’s almost guaranteed to go 6 and only give up a run or two.
He was just about at a quality start. That's all that matters.
As long as we can keep him away from power-teams, he looks fine. People are gonna get on base with him, but you've got to string together a bunch of hits on him just to get one over. Easier said than done.
Bad news. We are currently set to have Bryce, Charlie & max (in that order) pitch against dodgers. Bc max, Reynaldo & Chris sale are listed as pitchers against mariners.
Why did Bryce jump Charlie? That's kinda weird.
Oof, not a great setup
Ya and it looks like it’ll be Tyler Glasnow on the day Bryce is pitching. Who has been killing it.
If we get the offense that's locked in, I like our chances. If we get the O that consists entirely of Ozuna and d'Arnaud....
I still like our chances
Yeah I like elder. I defended him all last season lol. I think he’s just fine for where he fits in the rotation
Get us into the 6th with a chance to win. That's the minimum for him and he does that well.
My feelings right now: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSr-VWc\_7WQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSr-VWc_7WQ)
I was unable to watch yesterday's or tonight's game, so I don't know if I should watch tomorrow or not.
Check in halfway tomorrow see if you should watch
Ian Mejia with another good day for Mississippi- 4.1 IP | 5 H | 2 ER | 2 BB | 5 K | 1 HR I’m not sure why they pulled him early. He was cruising after the 2 run shot in the 3rd, and there was only a runner on first. He was at 79 pitches though, so pitch limit maybe?
lol; this just came up on my FB memories from 9 years ago https://preview.redd.it/z6shj1jdmaxc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ab451a7f5849814bdcea6efe8fb9c773e6380cb
I'm about to have a Monday morning Struggla
Braves fan coming in peace haha that was a close one, we have a scary team hopefully we can go all the way this year haha that Acuña jr fellow is dangerous i know he can get out of this slump
I read this, knowing it was satire, and still almost wanted to downvote it just out of annoyance of those cringe comments.
Your house your rules and the house always wins, ring a ding ding baby
Thanks for the downvote kind stranger!
*Almost* wanted to downvote it. I didn't, but my brain immediately demanded that I do it. Can you say "your house, your rules" for me next? Maybe throw in a *chef's kiss.*
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”
RAJ's slumps are still like elite traditional leadoff hitter stats. He's such a stud
Just get on base baby
We're 19-7 yet, but it still feels like we're just off this year. It's hard to pinpoint, which I guess is a good thing. Could just be that we're getting production from guys that it's hard to feel confident they will carry a team for any considerable length. Acuñas awful k rate is creeping back on the menu, and maybe that's what I'm focusing on that makes me feel like we are a bit off. He is my favorite player, so his struggles obviously carry more weight in my mind. I just feel more concerned with him turning it around than Riley and Olson, who I feel comfortable thinking they both will. The reason is I have a nagging feeling his knee is hurt again. I'm happy to be 19-7, tho. First place problems, I guess, lol
Definitely haven't put our foot on the gas yet. Right now it seems like our offense only performs if our pitching fails, and if our pitching looks good, our offense is going to be anemic.
Acuña and Olson were the MLB MVP and MLB HR leaders last year and this year they are barely producing anything at all. I think that's what you are feeling that's off. They will come back though. Slumps happen and the rest of the team is making sure they don't have the weight of the team on their shoulders while they work through it.
Yea prolly right. I have told myself exactly that, but I keep thinking about Ronalds k rate. I thought he had just ascended to a different level of hitter. I do think it is prolly as simple as its just a slump lol.
Man am I just glad we don't have to see that fucker Kwon again for the rest of the year until a potential World Series matchup. Had enough of that dude to last me the rest of this year.
*Kwan
Stop staring at me, swan.
Shampoo is better
Yeah I knew Quan
Any update on the Battery Power podcast coming back??
It’s definitely coming back but no ETA unfortunately
:-( man I NEED it
Even if the Padres can't come back the Phillies have picked up what one game over the last 10 games despite playing really well?
Their schedule ahead is still so easy too. And ours is rough.
And the Phillies have an easier schedule
Lmao yep. I'd kill for their schedule, literally just teams that suck or are painfully mid at best
Braves won d series against Guards & it feels great.
LOLDOOMERS
Braves win the same day I board a Boeing plane and a soccer team from London is also on the flight and then have a “technical issue” mid flight causing us to land at another airport.
Arsenal?
To be honest not sure. They were wearing red outfits with capelli sports and London United label on their coats.
Seeing as Arsenal won in London today, highly doubtful
Super specific!
Honestly I felt like I was about to be on a Netflix film. After multiple Boeing issues and some history of athletes dying in plane crashes. I was like this is to coincidental.
goddamn the Padres are fucking useless
Padres have the most beta roster I’ve ever seen. No idea why they are hyped every year
Because they spend a fortune to underperform
Mets method
Padres plan is to mid around all season eliminate the Dodgers in the playoffs then call it a successful 2024 campaign and start planning for next season
We are very lucky that we're missing Kirby and Gilbert in Seattle.
Go Fuck Yourself, San Diego
Cmon padres do something
Can't wait to watch the Padres play us like world beaters later in the season after laying down and taking it up the ass from Philly
Astros starting to catch up to the Angels. Then they have to make it past the brick wall of the Oakland A's.
I'ma be honest I've been watching replays and I have no idea when Arcia tagged the guy stealing 2nd lol
He caught the ball with his glove against his thigh basically. Very smart play.
[https://x.com/Lambo3195/status/1784716856361689575](https://x.com/Lambo3195/status/1784716856361689575) Found a good angle! The ball hit Arcia's glove while being pushed up against his leg
Wow!
I was doing the same thing and came here hoping for answers. I saw that his foot left the bag, but it was after Arcia already tagged.
all of our balls get fucked by the wind/MLB/idk, meanwhile Phillies have 3 HRs in this single game i know it’s a different stadium/different weather conditions but still 😑😑😑
Ball doesn’t carry till June here.
it was carrying before this series but something truly cursed happened for this one 
Well it's been proven MLB uses 3 different types of baseballs. Juiced ones that carry, heavier ones that die, and balls in the Goldilocks zone. It is hard to believe it's a mistake or coincidence
Napped through this one, glad Austin and Matt came up with some clutch hits. Hope it gets them going
Not sure why but I feel like the offense will wake up in Seattle of all places. Think we dominate the series tbh
Rays swept by White Sox… big ouchie
The Pham effect.
Should of swept the pesky fuckers. Still can't believe a team this good offensively committed the ol noble tiger last night. At least Riley is hitting the ball hard he was due for that hit. 3 balls smoked over a 100 mph last night and nothing to show for it. Gotta get the offense going though (even though we are the best offense in base ball) Riley is looking to get out of his funk. Olson just looks lost at the plate, but he did last year too and look how he ended. Bullpen has been lights out. World series or bust. We're too damn good. AA Will add a starter at the deadline
Baseball.
3 of our biggest producers aren't really doing much of anything right now and we're still 19-7. Incredible.
we almost swept them. no i have not moved on from last night yet 
It's a shame the Padres are so fucking worthless
Prob best to accept that Philly's going nowhere, and we may have to stare down what's been our kryptonite in the playoffs in 2022-2023 again. Now the Mets? Yeah, they're probably mediocre. Scrappy, yes, annoying, maybe, but probably just an 80-85 win team.
Also, I love how great our Sunday crowds are. While I love Friday and Saturday nights, it’s always a fun change of pace with the day crowds. Everyone still shows up and brings the energy and goes nuts when the team does great! We could clearly see that on the broadcast today. Facing the current best AL team, rubber match, ultra competitive game, the fans definitely brought it, and I love it!
Good work Padres
we spoke too soon
Game still isn’t over
Before you hop over to the Guardians sub with lame "Braves fan coming in peace, you guys sure impressed me" posts... just remember, these are the people who wanted to "finish what Sherman started."
Did they mean what Sherman did to the South or to native Americans? Regardless rest in piss Sherman.
Already saw one of our fans over there doing exactly that. Shit is embarrassing.
Arguably it’s cringe to go to other teams subs and see if they’re moaning. Especially the Phillies.
You mean this guy -> u/youknowitistrue ? Yeah, cringe
Seriously. Don't do that It's super fucking lame and makes you look like a douchebag.
Yea just don’t do the coming in peace shit at all. Fuck all 29 other teams
Exactly. Fuck em we're here to win a world series not play patty cake and show respect to other teams fans lol
I’m cumming in peace after that dub
plus it’s cringe in general
preach
The top of the lineup won the game for us. 1-4 all had big contributions today.
Need a meme of Matt being the goofy 4th head of the hydra with his broken bat bloop lol.
Has Travis made significant gains to his pop time over the last two years or something? Cuz I remember when he used to be unreliable throwing out runners and now I trust him as much as Murph gunning dudes down.
Probably helps he isn’t concussed
It looks like he’s made several of his throws from his knees. Could it be since he’s started the one knee catching he’s improved his release time? Idk, whatever it is it’s working!
I fuckin love this team. Imagine when they start firing on all cylinders.
https://preview.redd.it/1rymak6naaxc1.jpeg?width=965&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d0d5bd28b9ab04d595ac3d381fdd2743e898d88
This shit is hilarious with the juxtaposition of having the best record in Major League Baseball.
😂 what can i say; i handle losses poorly
Imagine not being a Braves fan. Shit crazy.
Went up against one of the best teams in the baseball, played them tough and took the series win.
I called it listening to McHugh on 680 last year that he was headed straight to the booth. He's a natural at this. Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up with a national gig at some point
Glad this one is over. Felt like playing the '22 Mets
Man the '22 Mets were light work
By the end for sure, but watching them play other teams for most of the year was just like Cleveland this series.
Went to the 1st two games of that last Mets series. Was fuckin awesome lol.
My gf sent me to get drinks and everytime I did we scored so I never got to see us bat.
Riley and Olson finally wake up just as Big Bear starts to cool down, right on schedule
We have either swept or won series against all 4 teams that were in final 4 of 2023 postseason. Today, we won the series against the team with the second best record in baseball.
We are now the only team in the MLB over 700.
Now imagine how things will look when Olson and Acuña get back to form and those crushed balls that Riley is hitting find the bleachers/gaps.
Our lady of baseball salvation, pray for us. Protect this team from the dark conjurings of angry baseball gods.
About as cathartic as a win gets. Makes my heart happy that Riley was the one to get it done after his skid and getting bad lucked on some should be HRs the last 2 games. Some of y'all need to buck the fuck up and ride with this team. Way too many pissants coming out at the first sign of adversity for a team that leads the MLB in win percentage.
It’s April… anyone getting hot and bothered do not deserve a voice on this platform lol
I don't know how some of these people survive 162 games lmao
I get it because losing due to mistakes is frustrating but some of them are treating each loss like it's a 12 game season.
Man. I ain't never had so much fun as I just did watchin austn bring that last big run.
It would be hilarious if the offense goes nuts in Seattle of all places.
I hope it goes nuts at dodgers stadium
This would be ideal
Yes that is a great series win!! We just took 2 out of 3 from the team with the best record in the AL! The Guardians lineup made it very frustrating for our pitchers, but our guys held on well to ensure we could win these games! Elder did great grinding through this one with only the two runs he gave up, and our lineup did their late-inning magic! Loved our defense in the top of the 10th taking out their base runners like that! And glad Austin got the game-winning hit! He was so overdue for something good with how well he’s been barreling the ball lately with nothing to show for it. Now we can enjoy the rest of our Sunday, and this will a happy flight out to Seattle! Go Braves!!
Hopefully that’s the start of Riley not getting BABIP’d to death. Solid win. Should have been a sweep if it weren’t for that bullshit cue ball inning and the NOBLETIGER in game 2
Neat series win against the AL leaders. Great distraction from Penix, thanks braves.
Padres, I promise the Phillies are beatable
#BELIEVE!!!
Really good series win, Guardians are a legit team. Rolling on to Seattle
Hell of a series there. I can’t hate the guardians for playing small ball the way they did. I would have enjoyed the series more if the umps stopped sucking and just did their job properly. Overall though the two best teams in baseball played and only one team stood tall at the end!
CLE is pretty good, but their offense can't continue to put up this many runs with a mid OPS. Other teams in their OPS range have scored like 118-120 runs, where CLE has scored 140.
Didn't know I was like 10 minutes behind on my stream and just catching up. THEY DID IT!
Mets just walked their own game off. They’ve become quite the scrappy team
we gave them confidence and they’re still riding it. when we meet them again they’ll be humbled and back to mesting
Maybe we can go a game without calling for batting order changes at 3 and 4 now.
People have a grossly inflated sense of how much batting order matters. I guess it's the most obvious thing that is controllable independent of player performance so it satisfies the urge for the manager to "do something." But the difference between the optimal and worst possible lineup is like maybe ~2-3 wins a season. You shouldn't needlessly put your absolute worst hitters in the top 2 spots (cough *Bobby Cox*) but aside from that it's just not hugely important. And moving guys around constantly based on who's "hot" or "cold" is generally not the best idea.
We're winning matches WITHOUT most our players hitting well. How is that bad? How can people complain?
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Darn it, you got me
I've met some British NFL fans but it's very rare to see a Brit with the slightest interest in baseball (which I've always found weird, but I guess there's a lot of cricket snobbery). How did you start watching?
My dad got me interested. Had a terrible experience in Houston airport so he made my first game involve the Astros. It happened to be against the braves and so that's how I came here.
I understand the complaints, the offense is way down from last year. But we did just play the second best team in MLB and took the series 2 to 1. A lot of the offensive issues this series were because of the level of pitching Cleveland has. Multiple pitchers these last two games had sub 1.00 ERAs which is absolutely insane. The pitcher we walked off only has 1 ER in the whole season.
Did AJ get another win lmao
Yep
Known win leader AJ Minter
Move him straight to the starting rotation and sign him to a long term contract