Tell us what you think about the site
Customer Care »
Vacation stops, manage subscriptions and more
AJC Services
Sections
Other Editions
Visitor Agreement | Privacy Statement
© 2013 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Vacation stops, manage subscriptions and more
Visitor Agreement | Privacy Statement
© 2013 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2,019 comments Add your comment
nolie
August 24th, 2012
12:35 am
good work Avilan
Long time Braves fan in San Francsico
August 24th, 2012
12:35 am
Just made it back home. If the Giants sweep us, we’ll probably leave town behind in the Wild Card race.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:36 am
It’s such a shame to stay up late and see this…. thank goodness I’m not tired!
Still don’t see why we had to travel west and play the next night, while the Nats get to travel to Philly and get the off-day. CONSPIRACY!
Tomahawk Mafia
August 24th, 2012
12:36 am
I suppose Avilan pitched pretty well tonight.
Mark
August 24th, 2012
12:37 am
Boy I sure would have thought after the first inning we’d have more than 3 hits and 1 run off Zito.
Night all
Say those prayers!
kelevra
August 24th, 2012
12:37 am
1 game playoff with the giants….who do you think they will pitch?
IlliniBrave
August 24th, 2012
12:37 am
@Animus: loved growing up with Skip, and quickly grew to appreciate his dad Harry when I moved up here, but have never liked the youngster. He’s defnitely no “chip off the ole block”!
N8
August 24th, 2012
12:38 am
Sorry cab. Assumed it was “implied”.
And I know it’s real. I just hate it as an excuse for losing. Because it’s not a good one.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:38 am
Zito is nasty tonight.
nolie
August 24th, 2012
12:38 am
bottom-faller-outer
ncbravesfan90
August 24th, 2012
12:38 am
And Pastornicky is suppose to take over at 2nd for Uggla? Don’t think so…
usnavyvolfaninva
August 24th, 2012
12:38 am
Wow… listening to the song “Make them Laugh” on “Singing in the Rain” The irony is not lost on me.
Venice Jim
August 24th, 2012
12:38 am
I really am amazed at the fact that there are so many people who have nothing better to do late at night than to show how totally clueless they are…
Around The Horn
August 24th, 2012
12:38 am
THANK YOU
I didn’t get a chance to say thanks last night, as I got off the blog soon after I asked my question.
But thanks greatly to those who helped answer my question about how to put text into a bold or italicized format!
Mark
August 24th, 2012
12:39 am
Lastly, Zito is just a younger version of Moyer. He’d beat this lineup tonight
Trey
August 24th, 2012
12:39 am
You can’t win if you don’t score. Doesn’t matter who pitches.
Animus
August 24th, 2012
12:39 am
On a different note, Scott Boras has 3 clients playing for the Braves. Hanson, JJ and Bourn. Odds the Braves have one of his clients playing for them next year????
uga-brave
August 24th, 2012
12:39 am
wee that was fun. little tyler should playing in the sanbox.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:39 am
1 game playoff with the giants….who do you think they will pitch?
The next pitcher in their rotation, the guy who has 4-5 days of rest.
The A Bomb
August 24th, 2012
12:40 am
Giants played later and flew as well. No excuses.
Good coaching prepares teams for any situations.
Look at any winning team and the coaching staff is totally overmatched.
usnavyvolfaninva
August 24th, 2012
12:40 am
Trey,
You can’t win if you don’t score. Doesn’t matter who pitches.
I’ve been seeing that posted quite a bit lately….not good.
Venice Jim
August 24th, 2012
12:40 am
Although the most egregious one seems to have disappeared, along with his multiple monikers…
Sundrop Kid
August 24th, 2012
12:40 am
“TM”, in my infinite and sometimes questionable wisdom, I would compare it to watching a train wreck, or “rubberneckin” on the freeway.
Uggly As Sin
August 24th, 2012
12:41 am
I’m staying up to see Uggla hit. I like the ironic and I would really get a kick out of a solo shot with 2 outs in the 9th inning, trailing 5-0. That would be so UGGLA!!
Hmmmm
August 24th, 2012
12:41 am
even though the Nats could probably care less about the game in the standings they lost yesterday … they’re 3 Braves outs away from gaining half of that back.
IlliniBrave
August 24th, 2012
12:41 am
Games like this make me wonder if these stretches of lackluster play, mental mistakes, and prolonged malaise would ever have happened under Bobby Cox?
Tomahawk Mafia
August 24th, 2012
12:41 am
More of the same for the Braves in the 8th inning.
usnavyvolfaninva
August 24th, 2012
12:42 am
Okay, enough of the jet lag…cabravesfan said she wasn’t using that as an excuse. And I’m sure many of us have experienced it ourselves. I flew from TN to London, and felt like crap the first two days afterward.
Animus
August 24th, 2012
12:42 am
The Braves’ batters should be embarrassed, 3 freakin’ hits off Barry Zito? I get the getting to the hotel at 4am local time etc,. but really, 3 HITS?.
Can’t wait to hear the ‘quotes’ after this game.
Acronym
August 24th, 2012
12:42 am
Jimbo, You might be wrong.
uga-brave
August 24th, 2012
12:43 am
say what you want, i am a c-mart fan.
Animus
August 24th, 2012
12:44 am
5 years since they’ve won a game flying west???? Excuse, not valid for a professional team. Thanks Joe Simpson, but I expect more.
N8
August 24th, 2012
12:44 am
Barry Zito pitches 8 shutout innings, and Tim Hudson’s last outing he gave up 4 runs in the 1st inning.
The next thing you know Dan Uggla is going to suck and Melky Cabrera is going to lead the league in hits.
What’s that? …… oh…. never mind.
uga-brave
August 24th, 2012
12:44 am
c-mart takes the ball.
Sundrop Kid
August 24th, 2012
12:45 am
Now one Mr. “Chip” Carey has brainwashed one Mr. Joe Simpson. Twas easy to do apparently.
Long time Braves fan in San Francsico
August 24th, 2012
12:45 am
I was considering not playing poker tomorrow and instead going to the game tomorrow night. However, Ben Sheets will probably get rocked…Freeman will still be hung over….and our offense will just be offensively obscene! I’ll just watch the game on the tv at the casino while I’m playing.
Zito looks like he’s coming out to bat….going for the shutout.
The A Bomb
August 24th, 2012
12:45 am
As much as some alleged people around here thought Cox was a donkey this type of effort would NEVER have occurred under Cox. He would have tried to do some things.
Gonzalez manages like he follows a script and allows the Braves to get schooled. Team is docile, never fired up and will never reach its potential until they get a quality coaching staff in place.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:46 am
It’s a 5 run lead for the Giants, no big deal to use C-Mart here…. he needs to get work, and it’s better than letting him get it in close games. Just don’t trust him in those.
Zito’s gonna go the distance, it seems…. Kudos.
kelevra
August 24th, 2012
12:46 am
uga brave
agree…guy just eats innings…not always perfect but guy just eats innings
usnavyvolfaninva
August 24th, 2012
12:46 am
c-mart? That the pitcher the braves put on layaway before they signed him?
Trey
August 24th, 2012
12:46 am
usnavyvolfan, yeah. That was a response to someone that said we would win if Medlen was pitching.
uga-brave
August 24th, 2012
12:46 am
zito just did one thing BMFT is incapable of doing..
a sac bunt.
IlliniBrave
August 24th, 2012
12:47 am
usnavy: I fly a lot and for whatever reason never have much problem with jet lag. Even those ridiculous 15-hr or more non-stops to Tokyo or Seoul. It seems to affect some more than others. Evidently all of the Braves were affected tonight.
ncbravesfan90
August 24th, 2012
12:47 am
“1 game playoff with the giants….who do you think they will pitch?”
Just a wild guess, I mean out of left field, but im going to go with……..a left hander.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:47 am
If we get shutout tonight, it’ll be our 11th time being shut out this year…
Hmmmm
August 24th, 2012
12:47 am
Zito only has one complete game this year, and that was in his first start (@ Col, and he actually shut them out .. odd in that stadium)
Peace and Serenity
August 24th, 2012
12:48 am
Illini Brave—As long as pa and pa Cox are enjoying themselves I am happy.
Hmmmm
August 24th, 2012
12:48 am
“Just a wild guess, I mean out of left field, but im going to go with……..a left hander”
If the Braves are able to use Meds, they probably beat the lefty. For some reason they’re just playing better when Meds is pitching
kelevra
August 24th, 2012
12:48 am
will we even put up a fight…
cabravesfan
August 24th, 2012
12:49 am
Time to shut down
Good night blog
N8
August 24th, 2012
12:49 am
Actually A-Bomb you’re wrong. Cox waited just as long to make changes. It’s the exact reason I was personally tired of him and why I had zero interest in one of his understudies.
But even I have to admit, in the end I’d just simply like better players to root for.
Of the everyday guys that are likely to return, Freeman, Prado and Heyward are the only ones “worth” bringing back. Everybody else is either worthless or cost too much for their production…. or both.
Simmons obviously falls into that category. But anytime you have a guy who’s hands get injured, I’ll wait to see if it affects his game.
Wow...
August 24th, 2012
12:49 am
This is what happens when you sit your best player
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:49 am
Those missed opportunities hurt a lot.
Animus
August 24th, 2012
12:49 am
I’m sitting here trying to recall if the Braves have had a game this year when they’ve been this anemic on offense?
I truly cannot remember them EVER looking this bad. Zito hasn’t broken 85 more than a handful of times – lots of looping curves, but….wow.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:50 am
Nice start to the inning.
usnavyvolfaninva
August 24th, 2012
12:50 am
Illini,
I DON’T fly often (and I don’t drink dos Equis when I do), but last time I had a super long flight was from here in VA to Bahrain. It was about 15 hours, and when I got there, I about died. Slept like a baby ’till I had to get up to fly to my ship. But, yeah, i can see how after awhile you get used to it.
Hmmmm
August 24th, 2012
12:51 am
please rewrite your story of how this inning ends Braves ……
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:51 am
cab leaves and we get a rally! Don’t come back yet, don’t #jinx us.
Dang, dang, keep Zito in.
N8
August 24th, 2012
12:52 am
“Time to shut down”
Must have been what the Braves bats said when they arrived at the park.
Good night.
Ryan
August 24th, 2012
12:52 am
Braves will not score 4 runs this series. Even the Sheets magic is over and Maholm cant keep ball in the park and with the worst manager in baseball there will be no playoffs. Cards and Dodgers will beat us out. THANKS FREDDI.
kelevra
August 24th, 2012
12:53 am
bout time for that double play
Yunel's Frosted Tips
August 24th, 2012
12:54 am
Open up a new can of excuses for these clowns……I don’t want Hansen starting or in my bullpen…..let him sit out the rest of the season like Kawakami did………..or let Uggla whip his ass and put him on the DL………it would be the first thing Charles Atlas did to help us in a long time….
Animus
August 24th, 2012
12:54 am
That hit just tied him with Roger Cramer w/2705 didn’t it? (Chipper’s hit) 63rd all time I believe. Next up, Billy Williams at 2711.
IlliniBrave
August 24th, 2012
12:54 am
@N8: I know you have this almost irrational hatred of BC, but his teams never quit on him, and he would never let players get away with lackadaisical effort and mental mistakes. (see Andruw Jones, Jason Marquis, Adam Laroche, Yunel Escobar).
nolie
August 24th, 2012
12:55 am
6 spot coming up….
Animus
August 24th, 2012
12:55 am
You will NOT shut us out tonight (Braves Mantra) – Good for FF.
Venice Jim
August 24th, 2012
12:55 am
Nice shot, FF!
Train Wreck Bystander
August 24th, 2012
12:55 am
Makin’ some noise in the 9th!
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:55 am
YEA!!! Rally has started. Let’s go team!
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:55 am
Great swing by Freddie.
Wow...
August 24th, 2012
12:56 am
Nice to see Freeman get a hit. He’s looked as bad as Uggla and McCann lately
Animus
August 24th, 2012
12:56 am
Wow – replay showed FF thinking 3!!!! Really?
usnavyvolfaninva
August 24th, 2012
12:56 am
Ryan,
Even if I thought FG was bad, which I don’t, he’s hardly the worst… what about Bobby V in Boston??
Duh-Uggla
August 24th, 2012
12:56 am
Please pinch hit for Dan Uggla… OMG
The A Bomb
August 24th, 2012
12:56 am
NO N8 — For once YOU ARE WRONG.
Cox may not have been a genius, but he had his players intense and ready to go. That’s where his strength was. We may have lost — but Cox would bunt, hit and run and steal to get something going.
Gonzalez does NOTHING.
Cox’s strength was his motivation. I saw what I saw from 1978-80 and 1990-2010. Saw it all. he backed his players on and off the field.
Gonzalez is a robot WHO DOES NOTHING. Sorry, disagree and won’t change my take.
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:56 am
Braves will not score 4 runs this series.
Already got 2…. and Dan’s about to give us 2 more,aren’t you Dan?
Wow...
August 24th, 2012
12:57 am
And he comes the automatic outs..
Animus
August 24th, 2012
12:57 am
Pleeeeeaaaaaaaaaaase throw him a FB – only pitch he’s hitting right now (Uggla)
usnavyvolfaninva
August 24th, 2012
12:57 am
…and was FG the worst manager when the Braves were 20 games over .500?
kelevra
August 24th, 2012
12:57 am
come on uggla…even pitchers get hits sometimes
IlliniBrave
August 24th, 2012
12:57 am
usnavy: wasn’t trying to brag or anything, cuz it seems to be a biological thing, but every time I travel overseas with business associates, I hit the ground running with way more energy than everyone else. Not totally sure why, but being ADHD probably has something to do with it
Duh-Uggla
August 24th, 2012
12:57 am
At least Dan can’t hit in to a triple play with only one person on base…
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:57 am
Wow – replay showed FF thinking 3!!!! Really?
he musta thought he was as fast as Bourne
usnavyvolfaninva
August 24th, 2012
12:58 am
@Illini,:-))
kelevra
August 24th, 2012
12:58 am
swung at ball 4
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
12:59 am
Come on Dan….
Wow...
August 24th, 2012
12:59 am
Swung at ball 4. What a joke
nolie
August 24th, 2012
12:59 am
still leading the league in walks
Animus
August 24th, 2012
12:59 am
Wow – Uggla just missed that FB (strike 2) – full count and he………walks. Gotta give him credit, good, disciplined at bat for him.
Wow...
August 24th, 2012
12:59 am
Pinch hit Ross
Disgusted
August 24th, 2012
12:59 am
Well, well, the signs of September 2011 are coming early.
The Braves are falling out of the WC, never mind the division. A disgraceful week of baseball because as I said earlier in the year they are not that good.
It was fun while it lated but the Braves played over their heads for a while, but this team is not good enough to hold a playoff spot. They cannot beat the good teams.
So sit back and watch this thing crumble — again.
Hmmmm
August 24th, 2012
12:59 am
did Chip really just make a name pun …..
ncbravesfan90
August 24th, 2012
12:59 am
How big are those wasted opportunities early in the game looking now?
Brava
August 24th, 2012
1:00 am
Can BMac come through here? Please?
kelevra
August 24th, 2012
1:00 am
cant pinch hit for janish b/c pastor has already been used…i guess marteen can play short for an inning
IlliniBrave
August 24th, 2012
1:00 am
Why would you walk Uggla – the easiest strikeout in our lineup?
TheOnlyBravesFan
August 24th, 2012
1:00 am
Well, he got the walk….. and here comes BMac as the tying run. Still no outs…. BMac might have a track record, but with the way he’s hit, not all that confident.
Nevertheless, let’s go BMac!!!
Sundrop Kid
August 24th, 2012
1:00 am
Well, at least he’s good for another one of those $125,000 walks. Apparently that’s what they are paying him for this year.
nolie
August 24th, 2012
1:00 am
2 down, 4 to go for my 6 spot
Tomahawk Mafia
August 24th, 2012
1:00 am
It is encouraging to see the Braves mount some offense and avoid the shutout. Further, three walks from Dan Uggla is good to see.