![]() ![]() This is the same guy about whom Mac wrote this, 11 years ago: He’s probably been the most important midyear pitching acquisition. Taking me a while to get used to him actually being pretty great. Jesse Chavez sucked his first time around in a Braves uniform. It’s down to ten, with two weeks to go, and two more games left in the series against these Diamondbacks. The Phillies pulled a victory out of their butts in the last at-bat against the Orioles, so the magic number only decreased by one. He’s a streaky player, and we need him on the upswing. He struck out in his two previous at-bats, and took a particularly awkward and frustrated swing in the fourth before busting out a few innings later. But he singled in each of his last two at-bats, giving him his first multihit game in two weeks, and we can hope that gets him off the schneid. Just saying.)ĭansby probably isn’t going to set that record by hitting 30 homers, as he’s been stuck on 26 since the first of the month. He’s made four relief appearances since losing his spot, and given up no home runs in any of them. (Smyly made 23 starts this year and gave up a home run in 15 of them. It’s the soft bigotry of low expectations, but Smyly had one of his best appearances in a Braves uniform, pitching 3 1/3 innings from the third through the fifth, and giving up just four singles and a lone manufactured run, along with four strikeouts and no walks. (There’s also Toussaint, but a discussion of him is probably outside the scope of the post.) Santana, Newcomb, Rodriguez, and Martin had all pitched the previous evening, so Webb was the only guy who went twice in a row and Smith is the main guy who didn’t go either night. We’ve complained enough on here about Snit’s unwillingness or inability to keep his powder dry in the bullpen, but I can’t really complain here. Riley hit a two-run bomb in the first, Albies hit a two-run bomb in the third, Soler went oppo in the fifth, and Snitker used most of his best relievers in a bullpen game to keep the boot on the throat — Chavez opened, Smyly was quite good in the bulk role, and then Webb, Matzek, Jackson, and Minter slammed the door. (I went to bed after the fifth — the old grey mare ain’t what she used to be — so take the rest of this with a grain of salt.) If you threw these two teams into OOTB a hundred times, it would probably spit out something like this game quite a few times. ![]()
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