What a rough year for Ozzie Albies, breaks his finger one day after missing three months with a broken foot. Hope he makes it back for the post.

Thats some bad luck for Ozzie. Hope he stays with the club in the dugout because as soon as he came back it seemed to wake up Acuna.

Yep on both comments!

No chance for Albies on the field again in 2022 though....

Somebody who needs to wake up is Matt Olson, he has been stinking it up at the plate for weeks. 4 for his last 65 i believe. Frigging .235 average for the year. Just struck out again. Makes me wonder where the Braves would be if theyd just resigned Freeman, who’s leading the league in batting average and top ten in RBIs and OPS.

I have to give Olson the benefit, that his slump will break, before the post season. Certainly a valid point on the resign Freddy
question!

The dude that performs "God Bless America" is supremely gifted!

Yeah right. That's your "issue" huh? lol

"Oh they have to shorten the baseball season because it gets cold in October."

God forbid they have to "suffer" through the same fall weather they've played the "Fall Classic" in for the past 100 years. And that's only the teams without domes.

How 'bout football. I bet the weather up there in Lambeau is an even bigger "issue" with you?

Cold weather definitely impacts baseball….action is start and stop….and many times the action is minimal and for very short bursts…players get cold..pitchers struggle sometimes. Not so much a factor in roofed ball parks but there are still open parks. It really depends on where the games are played and just how cold it is.

Congrats to Spencer Strider who became the fastest pitcher ever in MLB history to reach 200 strikeouts in a season, beating Randy Johnson.

Elite!

He's a baseball "purist", just ignore him.

As you previously pointed out, he is currently elite, and I am thrilled we have him!

Strong chance, regardless of what the Braves do this postseason, Strider will have one or multiple of those oh he's really for real moments. The guy just has IT.

Good chance for Bravos to jump the Mets! If we handle the Nationals like we have been, and the Brewers, play strong!

Yep Braves should have the advantage in these two matchups. I didnt expect the Pirates to be much of a challenge for the Mets but maybe the Brew Crew can put up a better fight.

Not going according to plan so far Brewers having a perfect game thrown against them through 7…..

Astros clinch! Bring on October!

Yeah it's hard to beat the Mets when Max is perfect for 6 innings. He's expensive but he delivers. As soon as they pulled him the Brewers got their 1st hit.

Cards go on their big 8 game road trip starting tomorrow 3 games with Padres followed by 3 games with Dodgers and then wrap it up with 2 games in Milwaukee.

All are pretty-much meaningless to the Cards and Dodgers as far as the post-season goes.

The Padres and Brewers on the other hand should be playing every game from here on like it's Game 7 of the World Series.

That's what I'm afraid of

Quite the 9th inning in The Bronx tonight. People will be kicking themselves for heading out early.

Yanks stole that game back from the Pirates but that’s what good teams do…they beat the bad teams. Yanks want every win they can get to clinch the division…they are in cruise control right now. Astros have a 9 game lead for the best record so doubt they are trying to catch them….Stro’s only need 5 wins so unless the Astros lay down the rest of the season they have very little chance. Yanks just want to win the division and get as healthy as possible going into the playoffs.

Going to watch LMJ push tonight at the trop!

Hopefully he gets another quality start under his belt and can keep building confidence going into October. Astros also have the rare chance of a sweep and a complete series shutout tonight. Go Stros!

The Braves and Mets only lose when the Mets and Braves lose. If you know what I mean.

Just pulled up to the house, after the game, and 2 hour traffic ride home... Quirky game with the Braves on the bad end of 2 double plays that killed momentum. Chavez putting an 82 mph fastball right down the middle didn't help either...

At least the Brew Crew were stellar..

Astros finally get a sweep at Tropicana Field.

Interesting point…I don’t think it’s a huge issue in MLB. Injuries, poor management, bad beats, etc add up and can happen to any team. Quality players usually cost money and we have seen teams spend huge money and still not win the WS…some players just don’t come together as a team.

The NBA is probably a easy comparison to see an issue….players have gotten together and formed “super teams”….there is something not quite fair/right about that. It’s sad when there are basically 3-4 good/excellent teams and then the rest of the league…kind of a joke and they have created destination cities….if your team is not one of those places it’s VERY hard to sign a star player.

Set hard salary caps…no luxury tax option if you go over the cap. Force teams to spend 85% or more of their available salary cap. Spread the talent across the league to keep all teams as competitive as possible. I am sure there are other ways to do this.

I don’t know if there is an easy way to keep the talent more even across the league but that balance is key to avoid the same teams getting all the star players year after year.

So my wife is pretty sneaky….she silently listens to things i mention….and then she surprises me. I have casually mentioned to her we need to pick up something with the “old” Cleveland Indians logo…so last night I am packing for our trip and in my closet I find a Kenny Lofton jersey (Indians) LOL!

I probably need to own a copy of Major League before it’s banned as well LOL!

Nice to see an Astros dub last night. LMJ looked good but Dusty left him in one inning too long. Stros gotta lock up Kyle Tucker.

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699 for Albert Pujols. MLB channel showing one of their analysts calling Albert to hit no. 700 off Clayton Kershaw on this Friday night on April 13. Kershaw is pitching tomorrow so if he hits it tonight or tomorrow it's one of the greatest predictions I've ever heard of.

And Shohei is having a better season than last year. He has 34 hrs, and has struck out over 200 batters. Has the highest OPS batting with runners in scoring position. ERA of 2.47 after tonight. He's 14 - 8 on a shitty team after tonight. He's an all star pitcher. And one of the best hitters in baseball. It's hard to quantify Shohei's talent because we've never seen anything like him.

And then Albert hits another. 700. WOW. If you watch the play he runs to Adrian Beltre in the stands behind home plate for a high 5 before he runs to his teammates to celebrate.

What a fukn prediction by that guy to call the exact day on April 13.

Here's #699

And then #700

Incredible, I was watching MLBN back on April 13 when Greg Amsinger said that, and wow, he almost nailed it. He got everything right except for the Kershaw bit.

Greg is a huge Cardinals fan, and it seemed like he was the only analyst who believed that Pujols would make it to 700 this year.

Personally, I got this very wrong. Thought Pujols had no chance to hit 21 bombs this season. My bad Albert, that's why you're a legend and I'm watching on TV lol.

Fuckin' Tampa...

It pissed about a million Cardinals fans off that we didn't get to see Albert hit #'s 699 & 700 live. Even guys like me who have it on local cable plus the MLB package.

Why? Because MLB decided this year that they were going to show a few games exclusively on other platforms not included in the MLB package. A few games for YouTube and a few more for Peacock. Unless you give them your credit card info and sign up you don't get to see the games.

So after spending hundreds of dollars on cable TV plus another $129 for the MLB season ticket, St. Louis Cardinals fans got screwed - big time. The game was only shown on freakin' YouTube!

I know a lot of people who signed up for the MLB package just so they could see Albert hit #700. They got shafted by the greedy bastards running MLB and subsequently are canceling their MLB subscriptions for next year. After all, who the hell wants to join 4 different pay per view media outlets just to watch your team play baseball?

This coupled with all the retarded rule changes that are supposed to draw more fans in are only driving the real fans away from the game. I for one had zero problems with the rules the way they have been for the past 100 years. The only so called "fans" who supposedly advocated for rule changes aren't really fans at all but rather "casual" viewers who won't be watching every game like the loyal viewers who liked the game just the way it was.

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The Brewers are 1.5 gb with 8 to go, which means they're actually 2gb since they don't hold any tiebreakers. Quite the long shot, but it will make the final stretch fun to watch!

Agree how frustrating it is in this day and age with all the tech we should be able to watch EVERY game without having to jump through hoops….at a minimum MLB network should show every game for those that have the package…then they can offer exclusive rights to in addition to another platform that wants to broadcast/stream it. It’s a bunch of crap is what it is.

This didn’t just piss off Cardinals fans.

MLBAM is doing everything they can to discourage both long term and potential new fans alike as their fan base gets grayer.

The incredibly consumer unfriendly broadcast rights across baseball get worse and worse every year with obscene carve outs for (mostly) cable broadcasters. Unfortunately it’s not going to get any better and even if MLB execs are serious about solving it (they don’t seem to be - they thought the AppleTV thing was a good idea) it will take YEARS to fix.

Kimbrel sucks for my dodgers..another blown save last nite vs the Padres. If Roberts uses him in the playoffs as a reliever, I’m gonna fn lose it..

That's the way I am feeling about our closer here in Atlanta. Loved Kimbrel during his Braves tenure...

Yeah Jansen is as nerve wracking as Will Smith was.

Who is the best lights out closer going into the playoffs? Seems like most of the top teams are searching.

In general the Astros bullpen is the best in baseball this year I believe so the Astros really have to decide what starter is moving to the bullpen. Its amazing to have that good of pitching this late in the season. Some starters have a hard time transitioning to the bullpen…different mindset as a starter you are planning on multiple innings unless you have a bad day. Many starters need 1-2 innings to settle into the game and can’t just turn it on and bring it for 1-2 innings. Will be interesting to see what they do because someone in the bullpen is gonna get left off the roster that would probably be on a playoff roster for any other team.

Matzek really carried the Braves last year, not sure if they would have won without him. Seems the 7 & 8 inning guys can have as big an impact as the closer these days.

At least Soler won't be giving the Astro fans any nightmares this year!

And just like that, 1gb!