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Carpenter can’t get ball to Kimbrel
For the better part of the past five months, the Braves bullpen managed to get the ball to closer Craig Kimbrel. Despite losing their top two set-up men to season-ending elbow surgeries, they found a way to close the gap and still led the majors with a 2.46 bullpen ERA. ...
McCann faces possible end of line as Brave
All season long Brian McCann has had other things to occupy his thoughts, rather than focusing on whether this was his last season in a Braves uniform. In that way, Monday night’s division series finale was more of the same, only this time it was mostly frustration. McCann struck out ...
Braves Review from Game 4
DEFINING MOMENTS1. Juan Uribe’s two-run home runSituation: Braves up 3-2 with nobody out in eighth with runner at second base for UribeResult: Uribe homered to left field on 2-2 slider from David Carpenter.Comment: After Yasiel Puig hit a leadoff double against Carpenter, Uribe was trying to bunt him to third ...
Gonzalez sees “a different Hanley”
Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez has been nothing but complimentary of Hanley Ramirez this division series, the former Marlins shortstop who had a well-publicized run-in with Gonzalez in 2010 when he was managing Ramirez in Florida.Ramirez has been a thorn in Gonzalez’s side for his work with the bat, not his ...
Gonzalez sticks with pitching plans
While the Dodgers shuffled their pitching plans, moving ace Clayton Kershaw up to pitch Game 4 on three days’ rest, the Braves didn’t waver in their decision not to do the same with Kris Medlen. Freddy Garcia started Game 4 as planned. Medlen would pitch a Game 5, if necessary, ...
Kershaw to start Game 4 vs. Braves - updated
The Braves had a feeling the Dodgers might go to ace Clayton Kershaw in Game 4, and Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman found out for sure Monday morning on an elevator ride at the team hotel when teammate Brandon Beachy told him. “I think it’s going to be good,” Freeman ...
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 ...
Game 2 review
DEFINING MOMENTS 1. Jason Heyward’s bases loaded two-run single Situation: Left-hander Paco Rodriguez intentionally walks Reed Johnson with first base open to bring up left-hander Heyward with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh and the Braves up 2-1. Result: Heyward singled up the middle to drive in ...
Cox loosens up for ceremonial first pitch
To every person who asked Bobby Cox Friday afternoon in the Braves dugout if his right arm was loose and ready for the ceremonial first pitch, the former Braves manager laughed and said “no, not really.” But still, he had big plans for it. “Four-seamer,” Cox said. “Like (closer Craig) ...
Final division series game times announced
Braves fans will have to be night owls if this division series continues to a fourth game in Los Angeles on Monday. First pitch for a potential Game 4 between the Braves-Dodgers would be at 9:37 p.m. ET. Major League Baseball released the remainder of the division series schedule Friday. ...
McCann has little time for nostalgia
Driving down from his home in Duluth Friday morning, Brian McCann knew there was a chance it could be his last trip to Turner Field as a member of the Atlanta Braves. Already down 1-0 in a best-of-five division series, if the Braves were to lose two of the next ...
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