Every LDS Deserves Its Own Thread: Phillies-Braves

[G-Fafif]

Yuck is up 1-0 on Yeech.



I think I'm pro-Yuck in this series. Developing a real appreciation for Harper as long as it's not against us.

Edited October 8, 2023 by Guest

[MFS62]

I rooting for a massive case of Dysentery to strike both teams, so they'll have to keep their crap in the clubhouse.

Later

[kcmets]

Wheeler having himself a ball game thus far.

[Frayed Knot]

- Wheeler tossing a no-no thru 5 (1 E the only blemish)



- Max Fried, who battled blister issues in Sept and hadn't throw a ML game in 18 days, issued several walks and two out hits ... then a 2R Bomb to Realmuto.



- Phils also running the bases well. Fried lasted just 4.

Braves, the team which usually seems to have a 3R lead in the 1st inning every day, have yet to score at all thru 14 innings.



- 4-0 lead in top 6 and are threatening more (2 on/1 out, Harper up) ... but they get out of it with consecutive foul outs

[A Boy Named Seo]

d'Arnaud hits a two-run bomb off Wheeler and my Met brain doesn't know how to feel

[Frayed Knot]

Oh my!!!!

[Frayed Knot]

Oh My, AGAIN!!!!!!



A leaping catch at the CF wall by Michael Harris turns into a game-ending DP when Harper was doubled off of 1st

Edited October 9, 2023 by Guest

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Put it in the book of Braves

[A Boy Named Seo]

Frayed Knot wrote: Oh My, AGAIN!!!!!! A leaping catch at the CF wall by Michael Harris turns into a game-ending DP when Harper was doubled off of 1st

Damn, what a finish. I changed it after the Riley homer and missed all the drama.

[Gwreck]

Man, these Braves fans are so incredibly tone deaf. On Indigenous People's Day, to boot.

[A Boy Named Seo]

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Man, these Braves fans are so incredibly tone deaf. On Indigenous People's Day, to boot.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, it takes a lot to make me not celebrate a team doubling off Harper to end a playoff game.



It seems like a simple statement from a few players along the line of "We appreciate the support, but please don't express it in that way" would make a world of difference.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, it takes a lot to make me not celebrate a team doubling off Harper to end a playoff game. It seems like a simple statement from a few players along the line of "We appreciate the support, but please don't express it in that way" would make a world of difference.

I had to look it up because I thought the Braves had a player who was of Native descent and voiced his displeasure with the chop, but it was Ryan Helsley of the Cardinals. I wonder if it would make a difference if someone in their own uniform said something.

[Edgy MD]

I'm of the "Alice's Restaurant" mindset. It would take at least three.

[Centerfield]

Braves are clearly cheating.

[Frayed Knot]

Phils' bats make Bryce Elder age even quicker by putting up a four-spot in the 3rd inning following a spotless 1st & 2nd.

4-1, Phillies still batting.



Make that 6-1

[A Boy Named Seo]

Harper is feasting. 2 bombs, 4 ribeye steaks.

[Frayed Knot]

8-2, mostly via the HR: Castellanos, Harper (3R), Harper, Turner



But it's still just the end of 6 (despite ~2:20 into things) and Nola is already out of the game (prematurely IMO) to a team that was down by four late yesterday and then didn't even need their half of the 9th to win it.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: 8-2, mostly via the HR: Castellanos, Harper (3R), Harper, Turner

+ Castellanos again + Marsh



10 - 2, bottom 8

[Frayed Knot]

The Braves, who scored more runs than just about any team ever, have been held to 0, 5, and 2 thru 3 games and are lucky to have not already been run from the playoffs.

Four of their seven runs came late in Game 2 to steal a late win 8-4

[G-Fafif]

[Frayed Knot]

Strider getting hit but so far scoreless thru 3 due in large part to another DP started by CF Michael Harris



Braves bats still asleep as they're hitless against Ranger Suarez with a whole buncha weak contact.



oe: until just now

[Frayed Knot]

Acuna has been a non-entity in this series.

So have several other Brave hitters but they're not the MVP favorite.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Castellanos removes Strider from the game

[Frayed Knot]

If I'm Atlanta, I think I'd have preferred Harris v (a suddenly wild) Alvarado rather than Td'A v Kimbrel

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: Acuna has been a non-entity in this series. So have several other Brave hitters but they're not the MVP favorite.

Redemption time?



... Not quite.

[Frayed Knot]

Me thinks the Braves are going to regret not taking that run on the WP.

Probably already are.

[Frayed Knot]

Second year in a row.

[G-Fafif]

Adios Atlanta!

[metirish]

What's the kerfuffle around Arcia about?