Game Thread: 5.4.18 Giants @ Hot-lanta

[SFGRTB]

Hanson - 4
McCutchen - 9
Posey - 2
Belt - 3
Longoria - 5
Crawford - 6
Jackson - 8
Blanco - 7
Stratton - 1

No Star Wars pun from me

 

[SFGRTB]

Acuna and Albies, the two youngest position players in MLB, hitting back to back. With the most underrated player in baseball, who's only 28, hitting behind them.

Braves have a bright future.

 

[1phlapdown]

OH boy, this is going to be a tough series.

 

[SFGRTB]

OH boy, this is going to be a tough series.

No faith! Blanco has your back

(but seriously the Braves are really tough. I'm excited to watch them, though)

 

[SFGRTB]

Just. Keep. Scoring!

 

[SFGRTB]

That was a heck of a play from Albies

 

[Mays-Fan]

Nice slide by Hanson there. Good looking athlete.

I finally get to see them. Nice.

 

[SFGRTB]

SDI from Stratton. Nice

 

[SFGRTB]

Nice slide by Hanson there. Good looking athlete.

I finally get to see them. Nice.

Up and down start for him in his very small sample size. He was crushing it in AAA. His previous two years of ML time hasn't been encouraging, but he is an electric player when he's going good.

 

[Mays-Fan]

Mildly interesting factoid by the Braves announcers:

Ozzie Albies, Braves 2B, is the third youngest player to hit 10 doubles and 10 dingers in the first 30 games of a season.

The two younger players: Stan Musial and the guy in my avatar.

 

[SFGRTB]

STAMOS! Deep to right!

 

[calsnowskier]

Just got home a bit ago.

The Braves have been clobbering everyone they have played. Now we lead them 5?

Logically, we are the best team in the NL, right?

 

[calsnowskier]

And Smith extends his streak of innings without an earned run to over a year. Amazing...

 

[SFGRTB]

LON-GONE

 

[SFGRTB]

Right-Field in the NL East is no fun.... Sun Trust, Citizens Bank and Nationals Park all have short right fields and jet streams that blow out.

 

[calsnowskier]

LON-GONE

Once he found his swing, he has been amazing. So far a GREAT pickup.

 

[calsnowskier]

I REALLY dislike this OF celebration.

 

[SFGRTB]

I was not expecting a 9-4 win when this got underway

 

[calsnowskier]

I was not expecting a 9-4 win when this got underway

Nice testicular fortitude shown by Stratton tonight. Got shelled in the first and was still able to pull a QS out of it.

 

[SFGRTB]

Once he found his swing, he has been amazing. So far a GREAT pickup.

.250/.276/.509 with 7 homers, 18 RBI and a 115 wRC+, and that was with a 2-for-25 start with 1 homer, 2 RBI and 0 walks. I've really liked him so far.