Will Braves fans have urgency about this postseason?

When Omar Infante tripled down the right-field line against the Phillies in the fourth inning Sunday, the stands at Turner Field shook.

The third consecutive sellout crowd for Bobby Cox's final regular-season games as manager -- the largest three-game home series attendance in Atlanta Braves history at 158,048 -- had gone raucous, anticipating a clinching win over the Phillies.

“When Infante hit that triple, it went wild,” said Braves fan Josh Lingsch, 23, from Norcross who has been going to Braves playoff games since the mid-1990s. “It was one of the loudest I’ve heard that stadium.”

So what happens now in the National League Division Series against the Giants? Do Braves fans have the same sense of urgency for Game 3 at Turner Field on Sunday they showed over the weekend? Are they playoff starved after a four-season absence? Or are they back to the watch-on-TV, wait-until-the-next-round mode of the previous decade.

Braves fans have a reputation for being apathetic, at least as far as NLDS attendance goes, given their “ho-hum” run of 14 consecutive division titles that ended in 2005. The Braves have sold out only five of their past 13 NLDS games at Turner Field.

Three of those were against the Cubs in 2003, when a healthy portion of tickets were bought by Cubs fans. The other two sellouts were clinching games against the Astros -- Game 5 in 2004 and Game 3 in 2000.

Nine of those NLDS games were played on weekdays, including six during the day, which didn’t help the draw from a fan base scattered throughout the Southeast.

Lingsch was at the World Series-clinching Game 6 in 1995. He was there when Jim Leyritz homered off Mark Wohlers to change the complexion of the 1996 World Series. And he watched crowds dwindle in the NLDS in recent years.

“I remember going to the division series and just looking around wondering where everybody was,” Lingsch said.

After going to both Friday and Sunday’s games against the Phillies, feeling the vibration for himself from the upper deck on Infante’s triple, he’s banking on better crowds.

“The last weekend has got me thinking that it’s definitely going to be sold out,” said Lingsch, a law student at Georgia State who already has bought tickets to Games 3 and 4. “And probably rocking like it was in the early 90s.”

He figures it’s the Cox factor, the excitement of Jason Heyward’s rookie season and the Braves majors-leading 25 wins in their last at-bat.

“People are coming out thinking that something special is going to happen at the field when they go see a game,” Lingsch said.

He got something special Sunday after sticking around until the Giants defeated the Padres and the Braves clinched the wild card. From near the dugout, he high-fived Heyward, Tim Hudson, Peter Moylan and Kris Medlen in the celebration.

By then, Braves fan Ben Sydnor was on a plane for his second coast-to-coast trip in three days, back to where he was stationed with the Air Force in California, after watching games Saturday and Sunday at Turner Field.

“I was the guy fist-pumping in the middle of the flight,” said Sydnor, who followed the Padres-Giants on an Internet game-tracker during the first leg of his trip back to Vandenberg (Calif.) Air Force Base.

He won’t be making the trip back Sunday, but he has bought a ticket to drive the five hours to San Francisco and cheer on the Braves in Game 2 on Friday at AT&T Park.