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Carroll Rogers
Carroll Rogers is a backup Braves beat writer and general assignment sports writer. She has written for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1997, covering the Braves, Georgia Tech football and basketball, and high school sports as well as some Falcons, Hawks and Thrashers.
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Janish has broken nose
Infielder Paul Janish suffered a broken nose in a weight-lifting accident on Friday but said it hasn’t prevented him from playing. Janish has yet to appear in the first four games of the Braves division series. He is the only backup infielder on the Braves playoff roster, though Gerald Laird ...
Gonzalez sticking with Garcia for Game 4
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has been keeping open the possibility of bringing back Game 1 starter Clayton Kershaw for Game 4 on three days’ rest, if the Dodgers were facing elimination. He’s been using a qualifier like “right now” when he has said he’s planning to pitch Ricky Nolasco. But ...
Rough night for Braves young guns
The Braves advanced to back-to-back World Series in the early 1990s on the strength of young pitching. Steve Avery and Mark Wohlers were pitching in their second World Series when they were 22. But in Game 3 Sunday night in Los Angeles, the Braves dependence on another youth movement came ...
Game 3 Review
DEFINING MOMENTS1. Carl Crawford’s three-run homerSituation: Braves up 2-1 with runners at corners and two out in the second inning.Result: Crawford hit a three-run home run on a Julio Teheran’s 2-2 slider to give Dodgers a 4-2 lead.Comment: Crawford had been only 2-for-9 in the series entering Sunday but went ...
Garcia brings experience to Game 4 start
Freddy Garcia was released by the Padres in spring training. Just two months ago, he was pitching in Triple-A for the Orioles. in his first start in Triple-A Gwinnett, after the Braves took a chance on him in late August and sent cash to Baltimore for him when Brandon Beachy ...
Kimbrel could see more four-out saves
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez used closer Craig Kimbrel for a four-out save in Game 2 and said Saturday he would feel comfortable doing it again Sunday in Game 3, if circumstances call for it. Gonzalez said the primary factors he’s taking into consideration are how much rest Kimbrel has had, ...
Freeman gets playoff homecoming
With the Braves playing the Dodgers in Games 3 and 4 of the division series in Los Angeles, Freddie Freeman will be playing his first ever road postseason games about 30 miles from the house where he grew up in Orange, Calif. Talk about convenience. Both of his older brothers, ...
Kimbrel hitting 100 mph plus in Game 2 save
Braves closer Craig Kimbrel gets an adrenaline rush running in from the bullpen to save a game in April. So being called on to make a four-out save for only the third time in his career in a virtual must-win game in the division series against the Dodgers? He was ...
AS I RECALL | BOBBY DEWS
Bobby Dews, a former Braves coach and minor-league manager and administrator, shared his experience with an old amateur sports tradition in Georgia in the 1950s in which fans would pass cash to basketball players after a good game. Dews grew up in Edison, where he played high school baseball and ...
Avilan calls double play “coolest moment”
In his wildest dreams, Luis Avilan never figured he would make his first mark in postseason play with his glove. The 24-year-old native of Venezuela is a gifted left-hander who throws 95 mph plus. But with a 2-1 lead on the line in Game 2 of the division series, and ...
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