Atlanta Braves vs. Washington Nationals – Box Score – September 25, 2010 – ESPN.
Derek Lowe saves the season! Lowe did his thing for five innings, scattering five hits, throwing lots of pitches (103, 64 of them strikes) but somehow keeping the Nats off the board.
The Braves got an “unearned” run in the third, thanks largely to Lowe, who doubled leading off and was still there with two out after an Omar Infante groundout, an infield single by Jason Heyward, and a foulout by Martin Prado. Brian McCann grounded out to third, but the third baseman threw the ball away, allowing Lowe to score; Heyward tried to join him but was thrown out at the plate.
Actual multiple runs came in the sixth. Prado walked leading off and with one out went to second on a wild pitch. Derrek Lee hit a double to score him, and then Nate McLouth reached on an infield single. Alex Gonzalez followed with a three-run homer to make it 5-0.
Bobby decided to manage the game like it was closer than than, which… well, these guys have been worked pretty hard lately. Peter Moylan walked the leadoff man in the sixth, but got a double play to erase him. Jonny Venters walked two, struck out two, and got a groundout in the seventh. Craig Kimbrel walked a guy, threw a wild pitch, and got a strikeout in the eighth, which is just the Craig Kimbrel Experience, really. Billy Wagner, who hadn’t been worked hard but who did pitch last night, got the Atlanta Save after allowing a leadoff double but pitching around it.
Votto singles in a first inning run. Reds 1, Padres 0.
Alabama is getting murdered by Mallet and Ingram and Richardson are getting shut down.
Ugh.
Um… Ingram has a 54-yard TD run and Richardson hasn’t had a carry yet.
Bobby may use Hudson and Lowe on 3 days rest.
Alabama secondary getting picked on as expected. They need their offense to control the clock more and keep Mallett off the field.
@4 I think he has no choice.
Minor is out of gas, and without JJ you pretty much have to go with the three days’ rest there.
I wanted Bobby to do it.
Padres now lead 2-1.
Venable homer. 3-1.
The Wild Card is for losers.
these teams disagree with you
Wild-card World Series champions
1997 Florida Marlins
2002 Anaheim Angels
2003 Florida Marlins
2004 Boston Red Sox
Why does Dusty Baker insist on hitting Orlando Cabrera at the top of the order?
Reds have tied it.
Alabama is in trouble?
So if we make the playoffs, are you, like, not gonna watch or something? I don’t get what your point is.
Hooooooooooooooooooooope!
In the last thread, Urlhix said this:
GAH. Knuckled my ass.
I felt it was worth pointing attention to.
I hate it when I knuckle my ass.
I’m gonna say it. Mark Ingram is the greatest player in the history of Alabama football. And we’ve had some good ones.
well its Mallet in his final drive vs the inexperienced Bama D
Mallett looks like he’s training to be Brett Favre.
Wow, Mallett…
LOL with 11 in the box a receiver could have run a vertical route with Ingram just lobbing it up
Should have thrown it to McElroy.
I thought for sure Dix would be right in.
/heh
ballgame, huge comeback for bama
Was @ last night and todays games…tomorrow also. Today, much better result. It’s crazy how comfortable I felt with Lowe on the mound…
BOBBY’s 2500th WIN!!!
Whew.
Great game. Doubt Florida/Kentucky will be as good, but Auburn/South Carolina may be pretty dang good.
Oh, and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Texas.
I’ll follow the playoffs like I normally do in non-Braves winning years. If I’m around, I’ll watch the games. Certainly, if the Braves make a run I’ll smirk and “enjoy” the irony of a Bobby Cox team losing the marathon then “winning” the wind-sprints afterward. That would be funny. But no, I’m not going to invest emotionally in a playoff run by a team that’s going to lose its division by 5-8 games.
Chris Denorifa doubled in the winning run. Padres win 4-3 and stay ahead of us.
Go Rockies.
Helluva game in Pig Town. Wish Mallett woulda floated a couple like that last week.
Newton is surprisingly fast.
Fanin should be removed from the team. I expect him to put the ball on the ground every play.
Apparently, Bobby Cox thinks Stan Kasten oughta be commissioner.
I think they could do a lot worse.
I would have never believed that I would look forward to a Derek Lowe start after the 1st half this year. With Hudson struggling now, Lowe and Hanson are the only guys I have confidence in.
Garcia!
I agree with Bobby. Stan Kasten is very good at what he does.
“But no, I’m not going to invest emotionally in a playoff run by a team that’s going to lose its division by 5-8 games.”
Yeah, how can anyone here not like Selig? Without him and the wild card this season would be over.
Mac
That was truly an unearned run. Heyward’s “infield single” was a pop-up that the shortstop lost in the sun.
Sam,
In many cases the wild card is better than some of the division champs. If anything I think they should seed strictly on record regardless of division champion or wild card
When did Georgia re-hire Ray Goff?
These MLB network announcers for the Giants game have really annoying voices. They also say dumb stuff. I’m glad the Auburn game’s back on.
Looks like the Phils just had a September Braves-like bottom 9th. First guy walks, then 1-2-3.
All I can say is, I’m glad we didn’t trade for Cody Ross. I think he would have, as hard as it is, made our outfield defense worse.
Just like that, Lowe is a 15-game winner again. The guy is a winner, A WINNER!!!
I’m a little confused on who to root for. Can both teams lose ? Are we going for the Rockies now, at least when they are playing the Giants ? I’m not sure I can force myself to do it, but I’ll try if needed.
I’ll disagree on Cody Ross. There’s no way anybody can convince me he would be worse than Melky out there.
Cam Newton is the new Tebow.
We definitely should pull for the Rockies. They are 4.5 games out in the WC and 4 games behind us. They aren’t mathematically out, but they’re done.
id be willing to try any OF’r over this bunch
ARENA BASEBALL
Rockies games are just silly.
tulo may be having the best month ever
Rockies have tied it up. Tulowitzky with a two-out, two-run double. The man is insane. You almost knew that was going to happen before it did.
He didn’t miss a home run by much. As much as the announcers suck in this broadcast, the scoreboard is miked well, so you knew he missed the homer by the huge >CLANG<, which was kind of cool.
Go Rockies!
I like never say this, but in the bottom of the tenth with one out, Tulo at bat, and a guy who has 25 SB vs 8 CS on first, I actually would support attempting a steal.
Rocks win! Braves in better shape than two minutes ago!
Tulowitski! Back into a tie for the Wild Card with 7 games left.
and tulo wins it with another double. madness.
Tulo again! Did I hear that guy say he has 40 RBIs in September?
Tulo, good stuff. 5 RBI, two doubles and a homer. And a walk and a single.
Nasty Nate was 2-3 with a walk today. See, he’s not the problem as long as he doesn’t have to throw to the plate.
14HR 35RBI in Sept
#63 – dont let that 2-3 fool you. It was 2 weak infield singles and he dropped a liner that could’ve led to a big inning
I think it’s 15 and 40 after tonight. Yahoo shows 35 RBI’s, but it only shows 90 total, and the box score shows him with 95 after tonight. I imagine homers are the same.
The man is having half of a great season in one month. I wonder what the Major League record for most RBIs in a calendar month is.
#66 – u may be right, I was going off of Yahoo. Either way he probably has more in both categories than our whole team this month
per baseball almanac
most HR in one month
AL – Rudy York 18
NL – Sammy Sosa 20
most RBI in one month
AL – Joe Dimaggio 53
NL – Sam Thompson 61
To answer my own question, a quick search reveals that the record for most RBIs in a month is 61, by Sam Thompson of the Phillies in August of 1894. Best I can tell, the modern record is 53, achieved by Joe DiMaggio in August 1939 and by Hack Wilson in August 1930.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_rbi1.shtml
http://www.nocryinginbaseball.com/records/rbi.html
Whoops. Sorry, csg. Didn’t know you’d beten me to it.
“as we go up, we go down”.
Well, not really. Back into a tie for the WC lead, and i didn’t fully get the posters’ talk about rooting for the rockies last night, but i’m down as of tonight.
The caveat is, as long as we win.
Because, after all this, and after watching a lot of Rockies wins over the past few weeks, and having Tulo on my fantasy team, I still think they’re the NL team i’d least have us face in the postseason bar the Phillies. I’d much rather matchup with Giants, Padres or Reds. With all our records nearly identical, the matchups will surely not be decided until that last weekend.
But i’m definitely down with all three of those teams losing as much as possible. I love that the Padres face the Giants in the last series. I have tickets for Sunday for the final Braves/Phillies game. Will there still be anything to be decided? Will my tickets for the ‘first home playoff game’ evaporate? A riveting week awaits.
Go Braves,
TDC
My gut says this team matches up well against the Reds.
@73 Votto would destroy us.
How bout them Auburn Tigers? That was a satisfying win – although anytime god takes 5 minutes out of his busy day to make Spurrier lose is it’s own reward.
/he threw the headset right on cue too – delicious.
74 — Their ace Cueto would be the 3rd starter on our team. Though their offense is better.
#74, it’d be Bobby Cox in the playoffs. Votto wouldn’t see a pitch to hit.
The Rockies aren’t making the playoffs. They need to overtake 2 teams out of 3 that they trail by 3.5 at least with 7 to play.
LOLnghorns.
Troy @72,
Think again on Padres / Giants. At least 1 of them will win every game when they are playing each other. We will be playing the Phillies. Although the Phillies may be resting people, their “juniors” won’t be under pressure.
The Braves problem remains winning their own games. One more today, at least 2 against the Marlins, and, somehow, 2 from the Phillies. Less than that will require some freaky things to happen with the other competitors.
In Lexington, there’s a new name for UK’s defense:
“The Starmakers”
Sigh.
Ya know, DLowe’s strong finish means there just might be some trade interest out there.
Not hatin’, just sayin’.
Trades are for winter.
Just win, guys. Just win.
Nightmare fuel:
Aroldis Chapman as a starter against the Braves. I can just see McCann falling to his knees at the plate with his face in his hands after a 3 pitch K all looking going “He’s too good. He’s too good..” and having to be taken off the field and to a mental institution where he spends the rest of his life trying to figure out how to hit a LHP throwing 103mph.
@81
Without Medlin and maybe JJ? No
Lincecum, Boachy, and the Giants say the Rockies are getting juiced balls to hit
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5616297
per ajc
Infante
Heyward
Prado
Bmac
Freeman
AAG
Melky
Ankiel
Beachy
Melky and Ankiel against the 50-year old Cuban? Why do we even bother showing up
stats vs Livan
Ankiel 3-9 1HR
Melky 3-16 .438OPS
McLouth 2-18 .413OPS
Hinske 6-28 1HR
Diaz 1-6
Alex Gonzalez 6-49 .313OPS
good note…
Heyward 3-8 1HR
McCann 7-21
Prado 9-20
Hopefully Beachy can do to the Nats what unknown pitchers do to us….blank em! We are still alive folks, as long as we have a pulse, I’ve still got hope. If you had told me in April we’d be in the position, I’d be more than happy with that, after all, we could be the Pirates! Eric Gregg isnt behind the plate today is he? (too soon for that joke?)
Anyone still in a Fantasy Football league with an opening?
ajcbraves
Hanson will go Monday vs. Marlins. Braves hold out hope Jurrjens can go Tues. He’s getting better but still unable to push off like he wants
mlbbowman
Jurrjens felt a little better in today’s bullpen session, but was only able to push himself w/ about 4 pitches. Expect Huddy for Tuesday.
When Bama beats the
Cocks, Vandy will be second
In the East, alone.
@73,
I think we are going to have to play one of the West teams if we get in.
Why isn’t Lee playing? He has been hot of late.
I hope Jason and Mac have 2 HR each in them today or the Braves are going to get shut out with that starting line up. Did Bobby forget there are only 7 games left in the season? This isn’t the time for a Sunday special white flag line up.
The worst news for Longhorn fans isn’t the UCLA loss. Texas is due for a down year this year after the success of the last two years.
No, the bad news for Texas is that Georgia is 0-3 in the SEC.
There’s going to be a battle to keep Muschamp from jumping to Georgia.
Thanks, McCann. Didn’t want any of that hope building up, did we?
96, what a poor comment.
That McCann out was one of the hardest hit balls I’ve seen this year.
This continues to
Be the unluckiest Braves
Team I’ve ever seen.
@99 I think the luck factor has just normalized, as it often does over 162. An awful lot bounced the Braves’ way this year, especially from mid-May to the All-Star break.
97- Why? Double plays are double plays.
Run differentials
Tell a different story.
We’ve had rotten luck.
Seven-pitch inning. Guys, your tee times aren’t until a week from tomorrow. No need to hurry quite this much.
What is Melky’s contract like for next year? Can we trade him to Canada for cheap anti-inflammatories?
Melky’s contract will probably be something like 1 yr $3 million. For someone else after we refuse to offer arbitration.
Beachy is inspiring… pity, which is better than the contempt that most of this team merits.
@105, We can nontender him this offseason?
Run differential
Isn’t the be-all, end-all.
Much of luck, team makes.
@107
thank god, yes.
Run differential
Gives a much better picture
Than your naked eye.
I don’t think we can let Beachy have an AB.
Now that was lucky.
Pitiful.
God hates the Braves.
i know they’re cheap hits but beachy has got to get the ball down.
this is so discouraging.
Working in pro sports
Taught me to trust my eyeballs.
Stats lie. Frequently.
thank god…
Hell yeah! Great throw, Rick.
The Braves have underperformed their Pythag each of the last six seasons.
Going to break my haiku vow — this time, intentionally — to direct a big ol’ LOL at 116.
I know Kawakami hasn’t been very good this year, but I don’t understand what has happened that the Braves won’t use him instead of pitchers making their 2nd major league start in the heat of a pennant race the last week of the season where basically every game is a must win. Have we ever heard exactly what Kawakami did that got him in Bobby’s doghouse?
@120
Numbers lie. Grybo
Sub-3 ERA with Braves.
We all knew better.
ERA and run
Differential are apples
And orangutans.
One-Run games:
Braves 20-22
Phillies 29-15
Stats only lie when
You cherrypick one or two.
Have you heard of WAR?
Even though we have
The vastly superior
Bullpen. Luck, luck, luck.
Beachy’s going to be at about 100 pitches through four innings at this rate.
And Livan probably won’t be at fifty. This is just nauseating.
McCann’s head isn’t a vital organ
AAG is Livan’s bitch
Wow, we can find ways not to score.
Watching AAG for a full year is really going to suck.
Goodbye playoffs.
Wow. The Nats are begging us to score and we flat out refuse.
He shall be Livan
And he shall kill playoff hopes.
He shall be Livan.
We should trade for Livan
Beachy will be good one day. Shame we had to call him up before that day arrived.
CANKIEL!
RICKY!
I will not watch the Braves if AAG is the starting SS next season. I don’t care who replaces him, I don’t want to see him up there looking like an old Hispanic version of Francoeur. Everytime I see him I see what we gave up for him and it makes me literally sick to think that professional baseball people running my team can be that shortsighted.
I hate AAG.
RICK?
There’s your 2010 World Series MVP.
Chip really likes to say “hit a mile”, doesn’t he?
@143
I hope he says ten more times today when the Braves are hitting
@143, I think he actually thinks there are 400 feet in a mile.
144,
When he says hit a mile, 9 out of 10 times it’s usually a routine flyball.
freeman is overmatched here.
As opposed to AAG and Melky, who are outmatched almost everywhere.
And thanks ever so much, AAG, for proving my point. Why do we even carry other shortstops if AAG plays even when we know he’s going to fail?
Agony, you suck.
Bums
This is a clinic in how not to score.
Pathetic. Just pathetic. And all of this against a pitcher who can’t hit 85 for his life.
So how do we screw this one up?
ANKIEL!!!!!!
Rick Ankiel, our hero! (Man, that sounds weird.)
SMELKY AND CANKIEL SAVE THE SEASON!
I’ll say it again:
2010 World Series MVP.
This has been the Rick
Ankiel show. Both RsBI
And the laser throw.
@157
if that’s a bet, i’ll take it.
I am starting to
Hate Omar Infante. What
Is wrong with me, y’all?
Another ugly offensive effort, but we gotta find a way to squeeze out this win.
After Ankiel, we still had a runner on second and no outs and couldn’t advance him. What is it about baserunners that scares our hitters?
@160, Haiku poisoning.
Can anything go wrong with Farnsworth entering the game right now?
@159
The future is written.
Chip < Donkey Shit
A 5 pitch walk to Willie Harris in which Farnsworth threw 3 sliders, all for balls.
Oh, that’s not fair. He’s at least = to it.
Way to hold the runner, moron.
Farnsworthless’ mantra: you can never throw enough sliders.
Farnsworth is just terrible.
Farnsworth hates me more
Than I hate Infante. I
Just want to know why.
Lovely.
So we pull a guy with control problems to bring in another guy with control problems. Lovely. Games are always won by loading up the bases for the other team.
This is all Farnsworth’s fault for trying to get cute with Willie fucking Harris.
Predictable.
I hate this team.
175- That’s what the Braves have been doing for a month, Getting cute, nibbling, scared sh*tless of going right at the other team.
I hate Bobby for
Ruining Venters. We could
Have used him next year.
And why is Venters still in the game?
Giants up 3-0 in the 4th, by the way.
Stu is right. I also don’t see why he sat Lee to play Freeman.If anyone needed an off day, it was Prado or AAG the way he sucks against Livan. Plus, why is Franz in the game?
He needs to take more chances and force the issue some. We ht an ran some today, but let some guys try stealing. We need to try to manufacture runs or something.
Bobby owns this if we miss the playoffs.
He knows they won’t do it, Smitty. These guys are playing like they’re scared to death. The last thing they want to do is “force the issue.” They’re just praying that things resolve themselves.
And there’s Lee illustrating the point, never taking the bat off his shoulder.
What a choke job.
I do believe that
Garrett Hartley will be soon
Seeking a new job.
Apparently the Saints just missed a 29 yard field goal in overtime.
Bobby owns it.
He is the one calling the signals. He is the one putting Melky in center. He is the one who brings Venters dead arm and Farnz in.
I have no idea why Freeman gets any starts. I think Bobby retired at the all star break
The good news is the season will be over in a week.
According to Chip, we have “three outs left in the quiver.” And to think some people think he’s stupid.
Falcons win
Six hit batters, and we got this
Solid approach you got there, Agony. Keep swinging at sliders two feet off the plate.
GO FALCONS!
I like how AAG takes a first pitch fastball down the middle and swings at a slidder nowhere near
Guys, just forfeit the last six games if this is your level of effort. Spare yourselves the embarrassment, and spare us the agony.
Well, Go Rockies. I am about ready for the Cox era to end.
This team sucks beyond belief right now.
Recapped. Farnsworth Delenda Est.
If the Braves end up missing the playoffs, a large reason will be they couldn’t beat the Pirates and Nationals in September. Ugh.