It’s another offseason for the Braves, which brings up yet another discussion on whether or not the team should go ahead and re-sign the best player to ever play the position in franchise history. It’s highly unusual during this time of massive contracts, but Freddie’s eight-year, $135 million extension from back in February of 2014
With a chance to eliminate the Dodgers and earn their first World Series appearance in over 20 years, the Braves bullpen couldn’t quite finish off the game’s most dangerous offense Friday night. Thanks to three runs in both the sixth and seventh innings, L.A. defeated Atlanta 7-3 in Game 5 of the NLCS. Unfortunately, this
Ironically, I happen to be the author of this piece, considering just this morning, I wrote how the Braves are positioned beautifully to wrap up this NLCS today in Game 5. But two points of view are always better than one. The truth is, of course, the Braves are sitting pretty up 3-1 in the series
Boy, do things quickly change. Just 24 hours ago, the LA Dodgers were supposedly in control of the NLCS, having just completed a massacre, beating the Braves 15-3 Wednesday night thanks to an 11-run first inning in Game 3. Atlanta still had a 2-1 series lead, but according to anyone with an opinion, the momentum was all
This time last year, a 20-year-old Cristian Pache was just a month removed from a solid performance in the minor league playoffs, hitting .384 with a grand slam and seven RBI in four games as a pivotal leader of the Braves Triple-A squad, the Gwinnett Stripers. The organization’s top prospect was coming off a career
Thanks to four scoreless innings from Ian Anderson and another excellent performance from the offense, the Braves won Game 2 Tuesday night versus the Dodgers to take a 2-0 lead in the NLCS. That’s back-to-back solid outings by Max Fried and Anderson, but now it’s Kyle Wright‘s turn… Wright has never faced the Dodgers, and at this
The stage was set for an offensive showdown Monday night, and though it took more than three hours for the Braves to finally break all the way through, the offense exploded with a four-run inning in the ninth to win 5-1 and jump ahead 1-0 in the NLCS. First baseman Freddie Freeman got the momentum
The way it was always supposed to end up, the second-seeded Braves will face the top-seeded Dodgers in this year’s NLCS — a rematch of 2018’s Division Series and the first real test for Atlanta during this expanded postseason. For the first time since 2001, the Braves have an opportunity to win the National League pennant. It
Unlike the first two rounds of the postseason, the Braves enter Monday’s NLCS as underdogs, sitting on the wrong side of 73.3% odds for the seven-game series. This isn’t the light-hitting Reds or Marlins, nor does LA lack depth in their pitching department. In fact, in terms of across-the-board talent, there’s perhaps no better team
The Dodgers and Braves are plenty familiar with one another, having faced off 26 times over the last five seasons. If we’re being honest, L.A. has taken care of business, winning 18 of those matchups (.692%)Â by a combined score of 130-92. Last season, the men in blue won 4-of-6. In 2018, it was 5-of-7.
