GDT 9/12/13: Braves (Garcia) @ Marlins (Eovaldi) 12:40 PM

[NYCBrave]

Braves:

1. Elliot Johnson (S) LF
2. Justin Upton (R) RF
3. Freddie Freeman (L) 1B
4. Evan Gattis (R) C
5. Chris Johnson (R) 3B
6. Andrelton Simmons (R) SS
7. Dan Uggla (R) 2B
8. B.J. Upton (R) CF
9. Freddy Garcia (R) P

Marlins:


1. Chris Coghlan (L) CF
2. Donovan Solano (R) 2B
3. Christian Yelich (L) LF
4. Giancarlo Stanton (R) RF
5. Logan Morrison (L) 1B
6. Ed Lucas (R) 3B
7. Adeiny Hechavarria (R) SS
8. Rob Brantly (L) C
9. Brian Flynn (L) P

*edited: Eovaldi scratched, Flynn starting

[bp4de]

i thought Eovaldi was out today,they said on the postgame show last night he hurt his back.

[Garmel]

Let's hope BJ and Uggla can get it going.

[mfree80]

i thought Eovaldi was out today,they said on the postgame show last night he hurt his back.

Heard the same thing about Eovaldi. Has this lineup been posted officially?

[NYCBrave]

This is the lineup that was posted on my usual source and they're usually pretty accurate. However, just went on Marlins twitter, and sure enough:

Miami Marlins ‏@Marlins 34m

Nate Eovaldi is scratched from today's start due to a tight back. @BFlynn277 will get the nod today, in Eovaldi's place.

[BlackwaterPark]

Im at the game today!!!

[nsacpi]

Fredi falling in love with Elliot.

I wish Terdoslavich were getting a few more games. He should be spelling Freeman once a week and getting a couple games a week in the outfield. He could be an important bench bat for us in the post-season, especially if Reed Johnson is out.

[stpeteirish]

chance for Uggla and BJ to get going vs some minor league pitching.

Freddy G vs the worst offense in baseball; looks like an even match up to me.

[BlackwaterPark]

Fredi falling in love with Elliot.

I wish Terdoslavich were getting a few more games. He should be spelling Freeman once a week and getting a couple games a week in the outfield. He could be an important bench bat for us in the post-season, especially if Reed Johnson is out.

i agree!

[BlackwaterPark]

Announcers at game just said Christian Martinez is starting

[drewdat]

Announcers at game just said Christian Martinez is starting

Garcia wears the same uniform number, #50. Not sure if that happens a lot when a guy goes on the 60-day and won't be back, but it seems odd that they'd give it away.

[bravesnumberone]

Alright, Uggla. You're playing. So quit bitching and step the hell up.

[diamondsyd]

Anyone know where I can listen online?

[nsacpi]

Gattis smoked that

[The Chosen One]

Anyone know where I can listen online?

You can use atdhe.tv to watch...

[stpeteirish]

yeah, we're gonna hit this guy, he's got nuthin'.

[Braves1976]

Gattis smoked that

Yea, it almost got through but good job by their second basemen knocking it down (and starting a DP after doing so). Freeman and Gattis being slow gave him more time too.

[Teheran_49]

I never want to see Uggla play again the dude is trash. Please FW call La Stella up...why did Pastor have to get hurt???UGHHHHH

[50PoundHead]

Why doesn't Uggla just bunt.

[Teheran_49]

Great job BJ and Dan...and you wonder why this offense is so inconsistent? We have three outs with Uggla,Bj and the pitcher...should have scored here but no just the typical strike out with men on for BJ and Dan, what's new? This is f'ing terrible...

[Braves1976]

Uggla is as bad as it gets with RISP, Uggla and BJ back-to-back is like old times too. Joey T should be starting today and EJ should be at his best position (second base), IMO. Oh well.

[gilesfan]

First and second, no outs for Uggla, Upton, Garcia. If we sac bunt with Uggla, maybe just tell Upton and Garcia to stand there and hope for a walk or wild pitch.

[bravesnumberone]

There really isn't going to be a happier day (other than maybe a WS title) than when Dan Uggla leaves.

[Braves1976]

The good news is Flynn doesn't look good so far. Hopefully he doesn't settle in after getting out of two jams.

[tululush]

Lol @ our three 'pitchers' hitting in a row. Uggla, BJ, (p). Awesome. I hope to g-d that Freddi dosen't play either of those jokers in the playoffs. And if he does, he better not play both at the same time. Can't afford to give up 9 autmoatic outs a game.

[Teheran_49]

I say we bench BJ and Dan for the rest of the season and hope they become disgruntled and want to get traded/released. We can then proceed to tell ok we will release/trade you but you will owe us half of what you are making because no one will take you at the price you are paid for your production. I just can't take this anymore...of course most of you on this board will come to BJ and Dan's rescue but these guys are terrible and some one in AAA who makes league minimum can produce as much as they are producing. It's ridiculous....

[Braves1976]

I'm afraid we may have to do what we did with Lowe (or even KK) to get rid of Uggla now. He looks even worse since coming back.

[Yogi44]

Just ran some numbers. Combine BJ & Uggla make $26,196,942 this year. At this moment they have 147 hits between them. That comes to a cost of $17,8210.49 per hit. They've done well, the Braves have suffered.

[Retch]

The only option with Uggla is trade him for another bad contract. No sure who that may be?

[nsacpi]

EJ getting on base

[The Chosen One]

The only option with Uggla is trade him for another bad contract. No sure who that may be?

Welcome aboard.

[Gary82]

On gamecast, it looks like the umpire doesn't know where the strike zone is.

[Gary82]

Gattis is straight up carrying the offense.

[stpeteirish]

Gattis has been about 90% of our offense since labor day.

[thethe]

Gattis is straight up carrying the offense.

Failure.

[Gary82]

CJ with a double. Now 4-0!

[Braves1976]

Gattis can't play every day eh? Hehe, RBI machine! Way to go CJ too!

[thethe]

Gattis can't play every day eh? Hehe, RBI machine! Way to go CJ too!

Playing everyday sure didn't make a difference.

[nsacpi]

Gattis looks tired

[bravesnumberone]

Gattis looks tired

Tired of carrying Uggla and BJ. Maybe they should forfeit some of their money and buy the bear a blinged out cave for the winter.

[Retch]

Can you imagine where we would be without Gattis this year?

[Braves1976]

Failure.

Exactly, Failure has an OPS now higher than Mac's and Justin Upton's. He also has as many homers as Mac and more RBI's in less games and AB's too. If that's a failure gimme some more of it!

[Braves1976]

Can you imagine where we would be without Gattis this year?

Good point, Gattis has been huge this year. He's had a lot of big hits off the bench late too. This team has had a number of players step up at the right time. The bench has been great, esp. when Pena was still healthy.

[BlackwaterPark]

Im sick of these idiots

[Garmel]

I say we bench BJ and Dan for the rest of the season and hope they become disgruntled and want to get traded/released. We can then proceed to tell ok we will release/trade you but you will owe us half of what you are making because no one will take you at the price you are paid for your production. I just can't take this anymore...of course most of you on this board will come to BJ and Dan's rescue but these guys are terrible and some one in AAA who makes league minimum can produce as much as they are producing. It's ridiculous....

But....but we have to play BJ because he has history and is making a zillion a year. /sarcasm

[bravesnumberone]

One day soon, I'm gonna sit down and go through every single game and figure out how many times Simmons has popped up. Has to be close to 200.

[Garmel]

I'm happy we're up 4-0 but we need more. Garcia has looked good so far but he could implode any minute.

[stpeteirish]

One day soon, I'm gonna sit down and go through every single game and figure out how many times Simmons has popped up. Has to be close to 200.

Time is money...why don't you just leave it at "close to 200"

[Garmel]

Whew. Nice pitching by Garcia to get out of that.

[stpeteirish]

I'd say take him out but its a little early to go to Kimbrel.

[Braves1976]

Garcia only gave up one thanks to Simmons great range. Then again CJ's lack of range hurt him on the first run too. Regardless, Garcia could fall apart at anytime so no lead is safe.

[tululush]

Likewise. I'd like to believe that the longer they continue to play like **** the sooner they will be permanently removed from the starting lineup. But then again between the money and the moron at the helm we may be stuck playing them regardless. I just wish Wren and Fredi would understand the concept of a sunk cost. More so with Uggla than BJ. I just wish they'd realize the money is gone regardless if they play or not so you might as well play the best player possible.


Im sick of these idiots

[bravesnumberone]

We've got to score more. Just can't feel comfortable with Garcia out there.

[emk418]

Trust me...I know Elliot is not very good but he needs to play 2B over Uggla in the playoffs.

[nsacpi]

Fredito!

[emk418]

Can you imagine where we would be without Gattis this year?

Everyone loves Gattis again?

[Braves1976]

Great to see Freeman hit a homer on his birthday! That gives him 20 on the season and 98 RBI's too.

[bravesnumberone]

Freddie at 98 RBIs for the year.

[BlackwaterPark]

At least half the fans here are Braves fans

[Bdawg2309]

Garcia >Maholm

[sentenza]

Can somebody explain me the scoring of the 4th inning?

Ground out
infield single
walk
2-run homer
fly out
struck out
(so camegast is showing it)

With two one, how can Freddie hit a 2-run homer?

[50PoundHead]

I was expecting something different.

[stpeteirish]

Maholm's MRI was clean. Good news, I guess, as we seems to be running out of pitchers and he's "serviceable" at home. Beachy still sore, shut down again/.

[50PoundHead]

Can somebody explain me the scoring of the 4th inning?

Ground out
infield single
walk
2-run homer
fly out
struck out
(so camegast is showing it)

With two one, how can Freddie hit a 2-run homer?

E. Johnson caught stealing.

[Braves1976]

Can somebody explain me the scoring of the 4th inning?

Ground out
infield single
walk
2-run homer
fly out
struck out
(so camegast is showing it)

With two one, how can Freddie hit a 2-run homer?

EJ was thrown out trying to steal for first time this season, so it was a two run shot.

[jsebe10]

Dan is in rare form today...

[Retch]

Uggla.

[nsacpi]

Garcia's given us five nice innings

[mfree80]

Garcia's given us five nice innings

His innings look a lot better with 6 runs on the board.

[bravesnumberone]

Given how horrible a hitter he is, Uggla at least should be able to pitch...

[stpeteirish]

EJ was thrown out trying to steal for first time this season, so it was a two run shot.

Johnson had been 18-18 stealing, and without a perfect throw he would have been 19-19.

[BlackwaterPark]

No way he was out

[50PoundHead]

Must be a recently-enacted law which states brothers cannot be successful in the same half inning.

[BlackwaterPark]

That forkball Justin hit just drilled a dude in my row

[Braves1976]

Uggla can't hit or play defense, that was an easy DP with a decent throw.

[Runnin]

A quality start from the veteran.

[stpeteirish]

Freddy G has proved conclusively that he can get Marlins out. Not sure about the rest of the league.

[50PoundHead]

Garcia has done alright. Time for the hook?

[Braves1976]

Johnson had been 18-18 stealing, and without a perfect throw he would have been 19-19.

True, EJ is a good base stealer. Though I thought he should have ran earlier in the count that time. Bad timing and great throw got him.

[Braves1976]

Freddy G has proved conclusively that he can get Marlins out. Not sure about the rest of the league.

The Marlins can make anyone look good, thankfully for us.

[bravesnumberone]

Good job, Freddie. More runs please.

[bravesnumberone]

The Marlins can make anyone look good, thankfully for us.

Except Minor. I kid I kid, not really...

[Garmel]

Once again Chris Johnson tells the BABIP gods to **** off.

[gilesfan]

Nice job Uggla. I missed your at bat when I blinked.

[jsebe10]

Can we plz just leave Dan in Miami

[The Chosen One]

This game would be 15-1 if we didn't have the pitcher's spot up 3 times in a row.

[bravesnumberone]

Uggla at .180. Batting average doesn't really matter until it does, and .180 doesn't cut it when you've only got an OBP around .300.

[stpeteirish]

This game would be 15-1 if we didn't have the pitcher's spot up 3 times in a row.

Really not an exaggeration to say Uggla went 0-4 vs minor league pitching today. Everyone else at least did something positive with the bat; as they should vs these guys.

[tululush]

It's to the point now where it's just painfully bad to watch him. When do they finally pull the plug on him this season and as a Brave. They can't keep running him out there, can they?


Uggla at .180. Batting average doesn't really matter until it does, and .180 doesn't cut it when you've only got an OBP around .300.

[Heyward]

Would of let Freddy go one more to save the pen.

As someone who supported Uggla, I'm beginning to wonder if we leave him off the PO roster.

Hopefully this is just to let Walden get back into it.

[Heyward]

Except Minor. I kid I kid, not really...

Absolutely ridiculous how he struggles with the Marlins, just amazing.

[stpeteirish]

As someone who supported Uggla, I'm beginning to wonder if we leave him off the PO rost

Only if Elliot keeps hitting, which I doubt.

[jpx7]

Fredi falling in love with Elliot.

[Shudder.]

[jsebe10]

Great. Now BJ doesn't want to run.

[bravesnumberone]

Absolutely ridiculous how he struggles with the Marlins, just amazing.

It's kind of like when Redmond used to own Glavine. Just one of those things. I'm more concerned with his homers than anything.

[sentenza]

This game would be 15-1 if we didn't have the pitcher's spot up 3 times in a row.

I like this one!
Because it's funny that you don't mean Elliot J with this!
He would be my favorite to hit like a pitcher!

[bravesnumberone]

BJ can walk his ass back to the bench where he belongs.

[sentenza]

Juan Pierre is now only one hit away of Joe DiMaggio in the all-time hitting list! :suprise:

[Heyward]

As someone who supported Uggla, I'm beginning to wonder if we leave him off the PO rost

Only if Elliot keeps hitting, which I doubt.

Uggla looks lost up there.

And his defense isn't exactly great.

Hard to be worse.

[50PoundHead]

You can always tell when it's getaway day and one team builds a decent-sized lead. A lot of 10 pitches or less innings.

[NYCBrave]

Good to see Walden back. Has there been any update on Downs?

[mfree80]

Not to beat a dead horse..... Well okay. Uggla has really been exceptional in his suckage at every part of the game today.

[sentenza]

This Caminero guy looks like a all-star set-up man!
But he has a around 5 ERA!

Why can't we get a hit of him?

[sentenza]

Ok, there's the hit! :Bunchie1:


btw:
When was I promoted from Danville to Rome? :emot-siren.gif.17:

[50PoundHead]

Varvaro getting some serious work. 7th time on the mound in 14 days.

[stpeteirish]

16 scoreless innings vs the Marlins bullpen this series. Fortunately we raked vs 3 or the 4 starters, but jeez, their bullpen is crap.

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[50PoundHead]

8 pitches all strikes.

I like Varvaro. He is who he is and I don't think he'll ever be a reliable high-leverage guy, but he is a better pitcher than Manny Acosta.

[bravesnumberone]

Magic number at 6. If we play like we're supposed to against San Diego, and the Phillies are worth a damn against the Nats, we've got a shot to clinch this weekend.

[stpeteirish]

Magic number at 6. If we play like we're supposed to against San Diego, and the Phillies are worth a damn against the Nats, we've got a shot to clinch this weekend.

wouldn't you rather clinch in DC?

[Braves1976]

Magic number at 6. If we play like we're supposed to against San Diego, and the Phillies are worth a damn against the Nats, we've got a shot to clinch this weekend.

Mets need to win today to have a real shot, otherwise we'd have to sweep and Philly would too. I don't see that happening. Plus more likely we clinch it in DC either way, IMO.

[sentenza]

Magic number at 6. If we play like we're supposed to against San Diego, and the Phillies are worth a damn against the Nats, we've got a shot to clinch this weekend.

I'm really excited what we will see from Hale tomorrow!
Hope he can go 6 innings!
I like the strategy to pull starters back, but if we need our relievers from the 5th inning on, it's not good for our overworked bullpen.

[bravesnumberone]

wouldn't you rather clinch in DC?

Would be nice, but it'll be tough. They've been playing well.

[sentenza]

Mets need to win today to have a real shot, otherwise we'd have to sweep and Philly would too. I don't see that happening. Plus more likely we clinch it in DC either way, IMO.


They will not win today, because of their horrible base-running!

[sentenza]

3rd solo shot make it 3-2 Nats!

[Braves1976]

wouldn't you rather clinch in DC?

Either is fine, but I rather not need more than a win in DC to do so. That way Nats don't have a shot at pushing our clinch to just after the DC series.

[Braves1976]

3rd solo shot make it 3-2 Nats!

Harang is a bad pitcher, Nats should beat him.

[Heyward]

Magic number at 6. If we play like we're supposed to against San Diego, and the Phillies are worth a damn against the Nats, we've got a shot to clinch this weekend.

Mets need to win today to have a shot to clinch this weekend. Assuming the Nats win, it will be 6 heading into the weekend, and looking at the matchups for Phi/Wsh, best shot is Saturday when Hamels goes. Likely lose the other two.

Of course, give up a HR, now Nats take the lead. Mets are useless against anyone but the Braves.

[Heyward]

Would be nice, but it'll be tough. They've been playing well.

We avoid Gio and Zimmerman which is a break unless something happens to either of them.

Looks like we will throw Maholm/Hale, Wood, and Minor.

[Bdawg2309]

Garcia has done a solid job

[cajunrevenge]

One day soon, I'm gonna sit down and go through every single game and figure out how many times Simmons has popped up. Has to be close to 200.

He has hit an infield fly 17.5 percent of the time which is roughly 1/6th of his at bats. Assuming he finishes with 600 at bats that's 100 infield flies. Its actually the same rate he hit them last year although he has nearly doubled his fly ball rate. He is tied for ML lead with Jose Bautista and right behind him is Ichiro.

[Heyward]

Magic number at 6. If we play like we're supposed to against San Diego, and the Phillies are worth a damn against the Nats, we've got a shot to clinch this weekend.

The only chance of that is if the Mets win, not happening.

And down to 5 heading to this weekend.

At best, the Phillies win one, it would still be at 1 heading into DC either way hypothetically.

[Heyward]

Harang is a bad pitcher, Nats should beat him.

He's given up 3 hits, all homers, go figure.

[bravesnumberone]

The only chance of that is if the Mets win, not happening.

And down to 5 heading to this weekend.

At best, the Phillies win one, it would still be at 1 heading into DC either way hypothetically.

That's why I said if we play like we're supposed to (we should sweep), and the Phillies are useful. I think we'll wrap it up in DC or Chicago next weekend.

[Temo]

He has hit an infield fly 17.5 percent of the time which is roughly 1/6th of his at bats. Assuming he finishes with 600 at bats that's 100 infield flies. Its actually the same rate he hit them last year although he has nearly doubled his fly ball rate. He is tied for ML lead with Jose Bautista and right behind him is Ichiro.

Actually, that's 17.5% of his fly balls that are infield fly balls. His fly ball rate is 37.8%, so his overall % in terms of ABs is 6.6%. So given 600 ABs, he'd hit about 39-40 pop ups.

[bravesnumberone]

I refuse to believe that. He has to have popped up in the infield/shallow outfield way more than 40 times?

[cajunrevenge]

I wonder what standard they use for an infield fly. Is it the actual infield or Sam Holbrook's idea of am infield fly. But it has to be more than 40 if they just go by popups caught ny infielders.

[bravesnumberone]

Nats pulling away from the worthless, pathetic Mets. So looks like the magic number will remain at 6.

[Braves1976]

Nats pulling away from the worthless, pathetic Mets. So looks like the magic number will remain at 6.

Yea, thanks for nothing Mets. No clinching at home for us, but if we sweep at home we'll just need one in DC to clinch (so long as Philly wins at least one game vs Nats this weekend). Best case is magic number is no worse than two headed to D.C.

[cajunrevenge]

Its really just a formality at this point. We would have to go 5-11 and the nats go 16-0 to win the division.

[Braves1976]

Its really just a formality at this point. We would have to go 5-11 and the nats go 16-0 to win the division.

I don't think anyone in their right mind could be concerned about blowing it this late with our lead. But I can understand concern with wanting to clinch either at home or in D.C. rather than in Chicago.

[bravesnumberone]

My concern is I don't want a red-hot Nats team in the postseason. Not worried about the division.

[CyYoung31]

If we can't clinch at home, the next best thing would be to clinch in Washington in front of that team and their fans. You know, I'd almost prefer it.

[Braves1976]

If we can't clinch at home, the next best thing would be to clinch in Washington in front of that team and their fans. You know, I'd almost prefer it.

Same here, Freeman also seems to agree according a message he posted on twitter.

[Julio3000]

If we can't clinch at home, the next best thing would be to clinch in Washington in front of that team and their fans. You know, I'd almost prefer it.

That would be OUTSTANDING.

[MadduxFanII]

Can Harper heal up and play in those games?

[NinersSBChamps]

That's why I said if we play like we're supposed to (we should sweep), and the Phillies are useful. I think we'll wrap it up in DC or Chicago next weekend.
San Diego swept us once this season.

[The Chosen One]

San Diego swept us once this season.

We're awful on the road in places not Washington or Miami.

[yeezus]

So is Garcia our #1 in the playoffs?

[Dalyn]

So is Garcia our #1 in the playoffs?

:fredi:






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[BlackwaterPark]

If you guys havent been there, get to a game in Miami. What a beautiful stadium!!

[Runnin]

wouldn't you rather clinch in DC?
That would be extra nice. Hope it happens just like that.

[Runnin]

If you guys havent been there, get to a game in Miami. What a beautiful stadium!!
Plenty of open seats.

[The Chosen One]

Nats riding a 6 game WS.

Would love for them to play us with a 9 game streak, and us sweeping them to clinch on their turf.

[Julio3000]

Nats riding a 6 game WS.

Would love for them to play us with a 9 game streak, and us sweeping them to clinch on their turf.

If not for that streak, we would've had a good shot at eliminating them from the WC. Too bad.

[Nerfherders]

Nats are 23-9 in since they last played us. They are finally playing like everyone predicted. A day late and dollar short.

[cajunrevenge]

With how far back they are from us a sweep would virtually eliminate them. 2/3 would be devastating. So we can still crush their spirits. Even if we dont technically eliminate them they are 8 games under .500 against us and 5.5 games back of the wild card, we are very likely to be the reason they dont make the playoffs. If they just split the games with the Braves they would be 1-2 games out right now. The only team I think they could catch are the Reds who they are 5 back in the loss column. The Pirates/Cards are 8 games ahead in the loss column. I dont know what would make me happier if the Braves swept them to crush their dreams or if they actually made it to the 1 game playoff and lost.

[PawPawMaxwell]

Strasburg scratched from tonites start. maybe we wont see him next week either.

[cajunrevenge]

Rumor is he has forearm tightness from working on a new pitch.

[jpx7]

Rumor is he has forearm tightness from working on a new bitch.

Was it Harper?