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Did they fire Daniela?

GREENE MACHINE

The organ guy playing the Harry Potter theme for McGonigle is peak

This is why it’s annoying when we don’t win the games where Skubal is no hitting the other team through 5 innings

Ugh

Acuna looks like a bag of flaming hot cheetos

Torres is not nimble or quick at all for a guy in his 20s

McKinstry shouldn’t be out much longer so I doubt they’re going to make a 40 man roster move unless Javy or Mize is going to miss significant time—which it doesn’t look likely they will at this point I’d guess Jung comes up until McKinstry is back

MUST WIN MUST WIN MUST WIN

I will say I’m digging the Braves having an organ player instead of piping in music in between each pitch

This game sucks

Groin tightness for Mize. Im shuddering thinking of who would come up if he has to go on the DL

Looks like he may have sprained that ankle.

Now Javys hurt bad

It’d be really nice if we could find a single pitcher who can make that throw

The fact that they didn’t have him try to throw at all before yanking him has me nervous

Ah crap

Nice work Casey

MUST WIN MUST WIN MUST WIN

I imagine you’ll see a lot more Javy in CF once McKinstry is back.

Everyone has one except the lady that got her face bitten off in a chimpanzee attack?

I’m still aboard the “trade Riley before the end of his contract because he seems like a player that’s going to age very poorly” boat Torkelson I have no issue with. If he’s not hitting, he will get less ABs. His defense is steady, and he isnt likely going to force us into either a long term deal or a must-trade scenario in the future.

Definitely need to iron out a couple of things with the pitching staff, but I think we are better than a .500 team for a couple reasons 1.) The early season schedule hasn’t been especially favorable. We’ve played a lot of interleague series already and only 1 of those 6 teams is under .500 (Marlins) 2.) We’ve had some very bad luck with BABIP—particularly when it comes to balls that would’ve been homeruns in most other parks besides the one we are at. 3.) Despite the pitching woes, we are still 2nd in the AL in run differential. We have the 4th best team batting average and the 4th best earned run average in the AL also. Theres only 5 teams in the AL above .500 as of this moment and we are one of them despite being swept on the road twice already. I think as things balance out, we will be a solid playoff contender with how we are currently constructed and Harris will have to make the tough decisions to sell off a couple prospects to patch the holes in the roster come June/July. You can’t not trade Skubal, sign Framber, JV and Jansen, and then stand pat at the deadline again.

Hinch for Chapman sounds fair

A lot of times last year it seemed like there’d be a bad strike call against him earlier in an AB that would put him in an 0-1/0-2/1-2 count and ruin his at bat just as much as bad third strike calls.