Braves Waste Good Effort From Reyes

The Braves lost to the Blue Jays 1-0 on Sunday to drop another series on the road. Jo-Jo Reyes pitched seven strong innings, giving up only one run on six hits, but still got the loss. The injury depleted line-up for the Braves was unable to solve A.J. Burnett, who threw seven shutout innings, giving [...]

Hudson’s Bad Sixth Does Braves In

Saturday 6/28/08            Blue Jays 9 – Braves 5
Tim Hudson was solid for five innings, but a four run sixth knocked him out of the game and gave the Blue Jays all the runs they would need. Mark Teixeira led a four run rally in the eighth with a two run homer, but in the bottom [...]

Jurrjens Dealin’ in Road Win for Braves

Friday 6/27/08 Braves 4 – Blue Jays 0
With another make-shift line-up for the Braves, Bobby Cox needed a solid outing from Jair Jurrjens on Friday night against the Blue Jays.  Instead, he got a great outing from the young rookie, who improved his team best record to 8-3. Jurrjens pitched eight shut-out innings, giving up only three hits [...]

There’s a reason why they always say “there’s alot of baseball still to play.”

As of June 21, the Braves are six games out of first place in the NL East. That’s actually the good news. The Braves have not only suffered a great number of injuries, but they have all been to very key players. The most devastating would have to be the loss of John Smoltz. With [...]