tOfficial 2017 Braves Season Thread

[Demonjoe93]

We hit into a lot of DPs tonight. And the defense was horrible.

 

[Edisto_Tiger]

Sugar coat it all you want, but this is shaping up to be another shitfest of a season.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Sugar coat it all you want, but this is shaping up to be another shitfest of a season.

It doesn't look good, but we're 5 games in and we haven't played a single game at home yet. At least give it a month before you declare the season over.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Nice first inning. Dansby with a solo shot, and Markakis with a 2 out RBI single, and then a 1-2-3 frame from Teheran.

Keep it up the entire game, this time, please.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Freeman has hit 2 dingers today. One wall scraper, and one that nearly landed in the river behind the right field stands.

4-4, and that's a great sign.

 

[gobigred]

Freddie just hit his 2nd Homerun of the day !

4-2 Braves halfway through 7th

 

[Mondo Jay]

Freddie is locked in today.

Hopefully the BP doesn't fuck this up..

EDIT: Julio only has thrown 87 pitches through 7. Should get at least 1 more inning..

 

[bamabear82]

Damnit, Jace.

 

[Mondo Jay]

86 pitches. Would have liked to see Julio start the 8th.

Fuck.

 

[Mondo Jay]

HUGE DP!

 

[Chewbaccer]

It can never be easy in the 9th, can it?

 

[gobigred]

Johnson

 

[Chewbaccer]

Well that's fucking great. Teheran should get to fuck Vizcaino's and Johnson's wife after that bullshit.

Two walks in the ninth. What a joke.

 

[gobigred]

Well that's fucking great. Teheran should get to fuck Vizcaino's and Johnson's wife after that bullshit.

Two walks in the ninth. What a joke.

Yep. Shitty. Closers shouldn't be walking guys like that.

Julio screwed out of win again

 

[Chewbaccer]

One of these days our bullpen will live up to the hype. Pathetic performance today. And 3 unearned runs didn't help the cause either.

 

[Chewbaccer]

I've calmed down a bit now, and that loss sucked, no doubt. First time Pittsburgh has swept us since 1994.

But, Teheran looking dominant and Freeman heating up are good signs, and while I would have liked to have seen Teheran go out there for the 8th inning(I like his chances of getting a hit just as much as I like Bonifacio's anyways), we got it to the two BP arms we wanted. Vizcaino and Johnson were off today, but still, I'd rather we lose a game using them than losing it with Chaz Roe in the 7th.

And when Cabrera gets back, and when we call up AJ Minter, our bullpen will improve.

We're getting hits and getting on base, and eventually those are going to turn into runs, with Kemp in the lineup, as hot as he's been, I think we probably would have won today.

It's not a good start, there's no denying that, but I am seeing a lot of things to give me hope that we won't be a disaster this season.

 

[bamabear82]

 

[Chewbaccer]

Can't do much worse than the guys in our BP so far.

Hopefully Cabrera and Winkler are ready to go before long. I don't care if Chaz Roe is out of options, we're not losing much if another team picks him up.

 

[Mondo Jay]

Kemp to the DL.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Kemp to the DL.

Ugh.

So much for projecting him to be back in the lineup tonight.