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RC
April 28th, 2009
9:17 pm
Diaz looks TERRIBLE at the plate….hope he lucks into one here.
BaseKnock
April 28th, 2009
9:17 pm
WIFF TIME!
Run Heap Run
April 28th, 2009
9:17 pm
Or, lean in and take a bean for the team.
Bobby's Cox
April 28th, 2009
9:17 pm
how ’bout some luck right here?!
Puma
April 28th, 2009
9:18 pm
Stephen, I’m 12 going on 40 but I love FML. Do you read the textsfromlastnight site? There were some hilarious ones up today. RunHeapRun
there goes our “resident cougar” again. Stephen is about 15 or so I bet.
zmerk13
April 28th, 2009
9:18 pm
that was strike 3, maybe we will get lucky
MFin04
April 28th, 2009
9:18 pm
Wow that was close!
To Be Continued....
April 28th, 2009
9:18 pm
Swung at ball three
RC
April 28th, 2009
9:18 pm
So has that been 5 pitches that weren’t strikes that Matt has seen this AB?
BaseKnock
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
What the?
Rob from SC
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
why did he move
Run Heap Run
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
Because we’re the Braves, that’s how.
Bobby's Cox
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
ok…that was luck for St. louis…how did that not hit matty?
Stephen
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
WHIFF
BaseKnock
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
Showing the AB live on the MLB channel.
MFin04
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
Matt you have to get hit by that
To Be Continued....
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
Take one for the team!!! lol
Now there is no way he throws anything but heat this pitch…be ready
Run Heap Run
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
Hell to the yes!!!
Stephen
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
You’ve got to be kidding me.
Tom O'Hawke
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
To quote Marv Albert, “YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!”
Mixxo
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
FINALLY!!!
Jeff321
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
Wow, Diaz swings at ball four for a base hit!
jonatuga
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rob from SC
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
better to be lucky than good sometimes
spotts
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
Talk about luck…
BT
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
Unbelievable
CorkylikesBeer
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
I told you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!well. i said he would hit it out but we will all settle for the single…
MFin04
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bobby's Cox
April 28th, 2009
9:19 pm
halleluja! where the hell was Green playing?!?! there’s the lucky hit!
JJ
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
Wow….
RC
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
Lu-cky. That pitch was a foot off the plate.
MariettaDerek
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
WOOOOOOHOOOOO! Matty swung at ball 4!
Run Heap Run
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
Take that, Chip.
Ian Curtis
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
About time something goes our way!
Tomas
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
Kotchman can’t be the cleanup hitter tomorrow.
PWHjort
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Steve from OH
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
Thank you Jesus!
BaseKnock
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
We all suck for being negative. Maybe we willed it though.
Heath (Cleveland)
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
OMG…a clutch hit!
MEB
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
Unbelievable!!! A bleeder up the middle. WOW!!!
GO BRAVES!!!
zmerk13
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
wow thank god!
that was one of the NO NO NO DON’T SWIN…..YES YES YES YES at bats
RC
April 28th, 2009
9:20 pm
Diaz didn’t see a strike that entire AB. And he saw 8 pitches.
Mike
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
Yay…he didnt strike out!
ABravesFan
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
DIAZZZZZ……………..EXACTLY WHAT THIS TEAM NEEDED!
lexbrave
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
“99 times out of 100 that would have been a wild pitch and a tie game”
that just about sums up the braves luck lately
StingerSplash
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
Great AB by Diaz. Great AB. Finally.
To Be Continued....
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
Diaz was lucky. Just plain luck. Swung at another ball and hit a weak dribbler where they ain’t!
It counts for two and the lead, but this offense is terrible! Doesn’t change that fact.
A blind hog will find an acorn now and then.
keylargo
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
CL
UTCH!@ DIAZ!!\\\
OOH
RAH
Chopper2Chipper
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
Enter your comments here
Jeff321
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
“Matt Diaz, who never met a pitch he didn’t like.”
-Chip Caray
Mixxo
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
Get Soriano up Bobby.
Chopper2Chipper
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
Yeah, Diaz!
jair wants to be traded....now jo jo too
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
how did the ball get through? seriously?
zephyr 8
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
woooooo! thank god we only stranded 14 runners today. Feel bad jojo couldnt get a win though. At least he wont get loss though.
RC
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
Can we really call that a “clutch” hit? You know, if clutch hitting actually existed and all
.
Vol_In_Ohio
April 28th, 2009
9:21 pm
Matty Baseball!!!
P-Town Brave (Pleading for Change)
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
Wow…there’s the game of baseball for ya…Diaz about gets hit on a pitch behind him, then swings at a pitchers pitch which was Ball 4, and somehow manages to squeak it through the hole up the middle for the lead…
C’mon Jordan! Add on to the slimmest of leads…
Oh, and yeah, I guess I was wrong about Diaz….that is all.
Run Heap Run
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
I’m not a cougar, what are you talking about?
PWHjort
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
Clutch luck. Ball 4 hits a grounder off the end of the bat and a terrible defensive play by Greene. But hey, I’ll take it any day of the week.
McFann Ô
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
Diaz, you ROCK!!
Wayne–
He’s 0-2 tonight…I think he’s gonna lead off the next inning.
WOW
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
wow wow he swung at ball for but who cares thank goodness i was stressing
Stephen
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
I swear to god if the bullpen blows this.
Wayne in Utah
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
OK, you whiners now have very little to whine about. So, please go take out the trash or something. Just leave. Let’s some actual fans talk about baseball.
Granted, the Braves need a better solution at leadoff, and their bats need to be more consistent, but I have never seen such behavior as trying to guess that Diaz strikes out.
So, go see if your mama will fix you a grilled cheese sandwich, or something.
LuisG
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
Finally, huh?
Brett
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
way to go Matt…yall should give Kotchman a break he had 3 hits yesterday when no one else was hitting. He is batting near .300 thats pretty legit.
Rodney Derrick
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
Now that was luck. Diaz could have let that earlier pitch hit him.Then he swings at a clear ball twice which would have walked in the run. Pure luck that the ball barely made it past the shortstop and trickled into left. But hey, that is baseball. We got a big break.
CorkylikesBeer
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
I guess I can continue with my life now…time for my date with the weights
cabravesfan
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
sometimes that’s all it takes…I really need another beer
spotts
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
I see the Cards acquired Big Pun
LVChad
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
Doing it the hard way……
Cardinals
3 hits + 1 HBP + 1 BB = 1 run
Braves
6 hits + 7 BB = 2 runs
RC
April 28th, 2009
9:22 pm
I think that Greene was actually screened by Chipper running on the pitch, and didn’t see the ball until it was too late.
WOW
April 28th, 2009
9:23 pm
Diaz might be the best bad ball hitter i have seen
Run Heap Run
April 28th, 2009
9:23 pm
Holy crap who is this guy?! He looks like he ate Corky Miller.
bravos2249
April 28th, 2009
9:23 pm
we gotta face 2-3-4 in the 9th though…OH DEAR..Gonzo or Soriano…cause you know they probably could hit Soriano’s fastball
Bobby's Cox
April 28th, 2009
9:23 pm
“Diaz didn’t see a strike that entire AB. And he saw 8 pitches.”
the only strike he saw the ump didn’t call…would’ve been strike 3 looking. and really, was green holding hands with Pujouls? that grounder looked routine. I ain’t complaining.
To Be Continued....
April 28th, 2009
9:23 pm
No Offense, Stinger but…. great AB? lol
Mitchell
April 28th, 2009
9:23 pm
Oh Matt, thank god you swing at the s***iest pitches ever cause a walk would have been nice but we got the lead.
Amazing. I’m laughing like a silly bitch. That defies logic.
Let’s get one more and Gonzo better shut the door.
Epinephrine
April 28th, 2009
9:24 pm
WOOOOOO.
Our line up SHOULD Be:
Infante
1) Schafer (Who still has questions at this point? So he strikes out? He’s better than anyone else.)
2) Esco
3) Chipper
4) Frenchy
5) Ross
6) Diaz
7) Kotchman
In June, it WILL be:
Kotchman
1) Schafer
2) Esco
3) Chipper
4) Mac
5) Frenchy
6) Anderson
7) Kelly/Prado/INfane
aswingruber
April 28th, 2009
9:24 pm
Matty Baseball coming up huge! Finally some clutch.
FUTURE BRAVES OWNER
April 28th, 2009
9:25 pm
finally…………..
spotts
April 28th, 2009
9:25 pm
I wouldn’t call that clutch. That was uuuuuuugly
Dumbfounded
April 28th, 2009
9:25 pm
All HELL would have broke out if Diaz would have made a out !! Matt Diaz needs to GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MFin04
April 28th, 2009
9:25 pm
No way we win this…Gonzo blows it…Pujols coming up? Hope not!!!!!
zmerk13
April 28th, 2009
9:25 pm
“Diaz might be the best bad ball hitter i have seen”
WOW has clearly never seen or heard of Vlad lol… but he is a good bad ball hitter
Eric from MO
April 28th, 2009
9:25 pm
It counts for two and the lead, but this offense is terrible! Doesn’t change that fact.
Your right but it does get us one more win. So who else was cussing when he swung at ball 4? JO JO finally had a good game. I really couldnt care less that he doesnt get the win. The Braves have given him plenty of offense in the past and he didnt win those.
Ray K.
April 28th, 2009
9:25 pm
THEY HEARD ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s the first two spot in the 8th or 9th all year!!!!
Heath (Cleveland)
April 28th, 2009
9:25 pm
Pujols up 2nd…come on gonzo…earn your money baby!
mbatl
April 28th, 2009
9:26 pm
“Now that was luck. Diaz could have let that earlier pitch hit him.”
First off, yeah, he could have let it hit him IN THE HEAD. I would guess there’s a bit of a natural instinct to prevent a baseball moving 85 mph from hitting you in the head.
Second, for all you calling the hit “luck”, be sure to credit the Braves when they do drive the ball and get nothing to show for it, like Norton’s liner to left-center in the 7th. Can’t have it both ways.
Don’t know how this will end, but for the second straight night, I’ll say… “stop whining people!”
Stephen
April 28th, 2009
9:26 pm
I can imagine how heated this blog will get if our bullpen blows the lead.
Mitchell
April 28th, 2009
9:26 pm
Schafer bunt!
Boycott Amstel Light and Amsterdam
April 28th, 2009
9:26 pm
That commercial has now officially turned me off the city and the beer permanently.
Frankie Knuckles
April 28th, 2009
9:26 pm
For the clutch people out there -
Matt Diaz = clutch
Tomas
April 28th, 2009
9:26 pm
Mike Gonzalez better not blow it.
To Be Continued....
April 28th, 2009
9:26 pm
I bet Mac has been at Myrtle Beach watching the game between AB’s and cussing like a sailor….. until that hit.
MFin04
April 28th, 2009
9:27 pm
If we lose this…Gonzo isn’t safe in the city of Atlanta!!!!
Stephen
April 28th, 2009
9:27 pm
95, nice.
Tomas
April 28th, 2009
9:27 pm
Pujols is due up, time to squeeze you’re bat like never before.
MFin04
April 28th, 2009
9:27 pm
I dont think McCann is feeling any better…0 for 3
KHall
April 28th, 2009
9:27 pm
You all should be very quiet for the next 10 minutes lest your negative blowhardiness affects Gonzo and he blows it.
Epinephrine
April 28th, 2009
9:28 pm
May I be the first to re-introduce GONZO to his 95 MPH FASTBALL?? Welcome back. Welcome back.