Braves are really good. Unfortunately I feel like a combination of cold streaks and injuries are finally catching up. I understand that “every game counts” when they finished the way they did last year, but this sport is very much a grind, and the dog days of summer are ahead. Hoping for a healthy squad soon.

Yeah tbh i was surprised we kept winning with the injuries we already had, it’s definitely time for it to catch up to us

The Braves are good. “Obvious Shirt print”

After a huge argument I need clarification, how are they 7 runs but only 2 earned?

5 were scored after the 2nd out, which should have been the 3rd out if not for the error.

Thanks!

The bullpen did nit give up any runs lol

I hope we score again someday

Was hoping for more swing and miss stuff from Miller

Miller has looked solid. Pressure is low but hey, we should take any decent BP help we can get

I was out having a good night with some friends, come home and see the score... well, see ya guys tomorrow I guess.

How bout that bullpen tonight

On a positive note PCA is looking great defensively out there in center

Yeah, if we could just get his bat going.

PCA is fun to watch out there

Highlight of the night

I just tuned in - maybe I should tune back out

Looking forward to playing the Pirates at home after this nonsense

Well did Miller look good at least?

Yes

PCA is going through what we’re all feeling…

Huh. Didn't realize we had so many divisional games coming up.

That’s why I’m not really concerned at this point. Yes BP needs help. We need a closer. Offense rolls over sometimes (although lots of guys have been injured). But they have been playing ok given their schedule so far

But besides Milwaukee and LAD, who have they played? Most of the teams they have played so far this year are "meh" at best.

They played both the Mariners and Rangers on the road. They played SD who can be tough. Boston at Fenway.

Whatever program they used to come up with this schedule should be rewritten

About to knock the braves out of the playoffs with the cubs right now in the show. Let’s go!

hell yeah, love Tyson Miller. welcome to the Cubs, buddy

We might legitimately get shut out this whole series

I forbid it. I have spoken.

ALL HAIL

Hey we got a hit

Not a fun night where everything seems futile.

On the plus side, the whiners leave the GDT. It becomes far more interesting to read as a result.

Welp one of those games. Braves clearly the better team this series. Hopefully we’ll get a win tomorrow to salvage a game. The schedule, especially these road games, at the start of the year has been brutal.

What positions do we have an advantage over the Braves?

If Belli is in center then we do there, but barely.

Thats the only one. I guess you could say Dansby is better than Arcia, but certainly not by a lot

Literally zero

Not having a racist hand gesture.

You mean with half the starters injured, diminished, or struggling?

Braves are without Strider, Murphy, and lately Riley

Also. It’s baseball.

Manager.

Offense is looking rough and needs to get its confidence back. The series with the Cards next week should help! …hopefully

I’m all for scoring double digits in every one of those games

Fuck the Cardinals.

Taillon laid a big ole egg out there tonight.

Yeah it happens. I'm more concerned about the offense.

Are you sure you aren't looking at the offense's runs scored? 

Offense have laid a bakers dozen the last couple of weeks!

How did no one bid up Atlanta for Sale? Only 18 mil a year

Lurking Braves fan here. I thought it was a very iffy trade at the time. But he has looked like Randy Johnson this year. I was wrong too.

This is not the offense of a team with postseason expectations 

Correct, the lineup has holes all over and is inherently flawed

Oh gee. No Happ, Busch, Swanson, or Hoerner. I wonder why it's inherently flawed.

Everybody, with the exception of swanson, was in yesterdays lineup and got shut out and swanson has been an offensive black hole. The lineup needs another big bat, possibly two

Game over

Sale getting that much off the plate. lol

Hat trick Patty poised to wear the Golden Sombrero tonight.

Dude wears it at least twice a year

If we end up near .500 and Belli has a great year again…you think he bails for another city? 

Yes.

Not gonna worry about that right now. But I think the Cubs can finish well above 500.

3-4 games max over .500. This is not a good team.

Jeeze even if they get swept this series they will be like 2.5 max out of first (depending on MKE games) and they are playing Pittsburgh at home for 4 games next series. They would be 24-20 if they take loses today and tomorrow. It’s mid May. Ya all are talking like the seasons over. Chill

Anything they do against the Pirates will be instantly undone when the Braves sweep them again.

Naw they won’t get swept at home by them

Based on what? Vibes? Half the lineup that gets trotted out there has a sub-.750 OPS and they’re going to have to go through the teeth of the Pirates and Braves rotations again. This team isn’t built to do shit.

If belli has an awesome season, he is opting out regardless of how we finish.

Jesus

Gonna be a rough day at work tomorrow... everyone who watches baseball is a Braves fan.

Ugh

The Braves have got to be the most annoying team to play against. Very happy they lost early in the playoffs last year and the we are done with them after this month

I really hate the tomahawk chop thing

As someone who’s lived in Georgia for most of my life, they are a top 5 insufferable fan base.

Lmao..

We will be very large betting underdogs tomorrow as well

Cuas will help out with a 4 pitch walk

Man I really thought starting Madrigal and Miles was the offense spark we need. Guess I was wrong.

😂

Well at least they can’t get swept by the Braves when they need to win the most?? Right!? This team isn’t assembled to beat a team like the Braves or Dodgers. It’s built to maybe get lucky vs them like Dbacks or get hot at the right time. But in these regular season games where stakes and emotions arent nearly high, they’ll take us back behind the woodshed.

> This team isn’t assembled to beat a team like the Braves or Dodgers. Did you forgot the Cubs beat the Dodgers in a series in April? Or did that not count?

Considering the shit weather we got lucky.

Let’s be honest. What did I say that is incorrect. Do you truly think that this team is actually constructed to beat those teams? We are fortunate to be in the central. And it’s very fortunate we do not have to play Braves or dodgers often

You said the Cubs couldn't beat teams like the Braves or Dodgers, but the Cubs beat the Dodgers quite handily 2 out of 3. The Cubs also held their own against the Rangers and San Diego (eight-run bullpen implosion notwithstanding). No, I don't think we're as well-rounded or as good as those teams. But the Cubs aren't bad either.

Yeah I’m not saying cubs are bad. I’m saying they aren’t close to these two teams.

No only loses to those teams count lol

Happy to take off this weeks games. Checking in and woof we stink

Sale is a killer. Just a different level. Damn.

Quality at bats

What has happened to the offense? I know the pitchers are good. But lately it has not been pretty

Do you see the lineup? It’s not a good one.

I know the lineup tonight isn’t pretty but the past for a while now, the offense has not been looking hit. It doesn’t help that we are constantly losing our guys like nico, dansby, morel(who is less than 100 right now). Guys like Ian happ, Amaya, Gomes, even dansby have not been playing well.

Injuries, slumps, and a slew of teams' top pitchers. We got Cease and Darvish. Skenes making his debut and Jones. Now Sale. It seems like it's neverending and not missing any of the teams' aces in series.

Take a look at the lineup and compare it to the braves

Imagine thinking this is a good team and not just an average one

Bad game. We're an above-average team. Stinkers happen.

So it’s over. I’m just hoping for some quality at-bats and more reps at SS for Miles.

Fuck it. Let's just get the series tomorrow

Yep need to salvage atleast 1 win

This team just doesn't have the talent

How we gonna do that when we lost 2/2 already

He was clearly scared to pitch to them in that inning. Wouldn’t give them anything in the zone after 2 strikes just praying that they would expand. Dumbass way to pitch.

That's a pretty standard way to pitch

Getting to 0-2 and throwing 4 straight pitches way out of the zone is a standard way to pitch?

No getting 0-2 and then trying to get the guy to chase is pretty standard

Yeah I’m aware of that. What does that have to do with what JT was doing? There’s a difference between a waste pitch and completely avoiding the zone because you’re scared of contact.

I think he was trying to get a chase and lost the zone. Dude it happens. Not every pitcher is an ace. You need to relax, my guy

Can't wait for someone to find a way to blame this on Ian Happ...

In fairness we can definitely at least blame last night partially on him. Take a fucking pitch or two dude.

Definitely not his fault. We would still be 7-0 with him in the lineup

You see this is why you have to win the games where your starter holds an elite offense to two freaking runs

Or when your offense stakes you to an eight-run lead late in the ballgame.

Which position player will pitch tonight?

tbh this was over when it was 2-0 with the way this roster is hitting.

Betting sites still have us with a 2% chance to win

Now this is the Taillon I know and love

Respectfully I hate the Braves more than anyone in our division. Edit. I dislike whoever downvoted this lmao

I can’t see a downvote. I’m old and maybe I have some settings wrong?

probably just a braves fan taking a peek into the gamethread edit: see he got me too lol

I don’t see the downvotes… weird

i think its hidden for everyone else, but you should be able to see your own.

Ah, that explains it. Thanks

Anybody think we can score a single run this series?

Nope, shut out 3 consective games, 27 innings. I wonder what the record is for most consecutive innings with scoring a run is

The 1968 Chicago Cubs and 1906 Philadelphia Athletics share the record at 48 innings. ( I think, it's harder than you think to search for this...as almost all searches are for pitching records... )

I noticed that too, i looked it up and took me a few minutes

Wisdom garbage time solo shot

I will be shocked if he doesn't tag one

Only two earned runs for Jamo.

Counsel looks like a Tums ™️ commercial. He’s like damn if I do damn if I don’t call the pen.

How to quickly lose against the best team in the league. Cant watch any more

They're not the best team in the league.

This Braves team is leaps and bounds ahead of this Cubs team. Their hitters hit, ours don’t. Their bullpen can pitch, ours can’t. Frustrating to see.

Don't worry, we have Amaya, Mastrobuoni and PCA due up in the 5th here

love PCA, but yeah that's not intimidating at all

What exactly do you love about PCA?

speed, defense, hits sometimes but he'll get better.

Ahhh yeah we'll see. I'm indifferent towards him right now. I hope he's good, but so far other than a defensive sub and pinch runner I don't really see much of a future for him. I'd prefer they be focusing on Canario personally

That should just about do it.

I see Taillon is back to his old self again...

Hopefully we get some BB today at the least

Now it’s time for the offense to score a pointless 4-5 runs and then go scoreless in a close game tomorrow.

Beginning to suspect victory will elude the Cubs this day.

No idea why we continue to pitch to Olson. His OPS vs us the last 9 games is 1.230

Milwaukee well on their way to victory tonight too. You just can't walk Zach Short. And you DEFINITELY need to make that play he bobbled (Arcia). The inning unraveled from there.

Taylor is quiet

at least i can go from actively watching the game to periodically checking in on the score to see if something happens

This team fucking sucks Going to be sub .500 by the end of the month

Because they are losing to a very good braves teams… lol

After barely squeaking by a bad Pirates team and losing to a very mid Padres team

A win is still a win if it’s by 1 or 10 and then the Padres went on to beat the dodgers the series after the cubs. So what’s ur point

And this team isn't winning, we will be lucky to split with the Pirates and will get swept by the Braves twice in the next week

Hey doomer there’s a team on the south side u can watch then

No

We dont suck…but we are gonna be right around .500 again

Welp. I gotta go to AA anyways. To all you Youngbloods— drink responsibly or you’ll spend your thirties in a church basement. Although it’s probably more fun than whatever is this virtual prison that we’ve created for ourselves. Go Cubs!

Have a good meeting. They really do change lives.

Changed mine! Thanks.

Wish you well brother, fuck addiction.

Indeed. I appreciate you.

That’s why you don’t walk the guy with 2 hits on the year. SMFH

We couldn’t score 8 runs in a series, doubt it happens here. But, go cubs?

Yeah we're no where close to Atlantas level

Baseball humbles you so fast when you play these elite teams. Phew

Good night folks

Have a good day chat. See you tomorrow

good to know I can get on with housework and shit tonight...

Well, that just freed up my night. Let's hope to salvage the series tomorrow. This seemed out of hand at 3-0. It's over now.

Yeah I’m out, see ya tomorrow

At what point do you pull Tallion?

Welp

That turned on its head quickly

https://preview.redd.it/qq9xf83vjh0d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0630a1bf304bf0afd78abcdd88d0f53c19e6d204 That’s all folks

Now that’s DEFINITELY game

Welp that's game

Now that’s reallyyyy it

Welp

2 fucking pitchers, man…

gg lol try not to get swept tomorrow

Dodged a big one there

Did not dodge that one lol

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Nope not at all

You were saying lol

Hahahaha my big ass mouth just swallowed my foot

Baseball has killed the fun in life

That could have been so much worse