GDT- 10/04/19: NLDS Game Two: St. Louis Cardinals @ Atlanta Braves

NLDS Game Two
4:37 PM ET, TBS HD
SunTrust Park
Cumberland, Georgia, USA
Temp: 95; Chance of Precip: 1%

Season Records: St. Louis- 91-71; Atlanta- 97-65

Series: St. Louis 1-0

St. Louis Cardinals

RF- Dexter Fowler (S)
3B- Tommy Edman (S)
1B- Paul Goldschmidt (R)
LF- Marcell Ozuna (R)
C- Yadier Molina (R)
2B- Kolten Wong (L)
SS- Paul DeJong (R)
CF- Harrison Bader (R)
RHP- Jack Flaherty

Atlanta Braves

CF- Ronald Acuna (R)
2B- Ozzie Albies (S)
1B- Freddie Freeman (L)
3B- Josh Donaldson (R)
LF- Nick Markakis (L)
RF- Matt Joyce (L)
C- Brian McCann (L)
SS- Dansby Swanson (R)
RHP- Mike Foltynewicz

expecting a yuge game from Albies

I'll leave this here...

https://www.mlb.com/braves/news/rona...game-1-of-nlds

Folty controlling his emotions is key.

He can very well falter or dominate (and he did both things this year, right vs the Cards).

We will figure this out, if pitching keeps us in the game.

Here’s to hoping that Flaherty is dumb enough to nail Acuña first pitch in the ass. He gets tossed. Acuña gets pissed. Braves destroy Cardinals

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Originally Posted by bravesfanforlife88

Here’s to hoping that Flaherty is dumb enough to nail Acuña first pitch in the ass. He gets tossed. Acuña gets pissed. Braves destroy Cardinals

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And one on with nobody out... I wish.

Expecting a YUGE game from Freddie.

Feel like we need to good juju

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1f/d7...4f13973198.jpg

Flaherty is gonna be tough.
Gotta be patient and take some walks. Maybe we can scratch a couple runs off of him.
I’m more worried about Folty melting down.
I hope this is one of those games baseball gives us that nothing goes as planned and the ace looks nothing like himself but I think we are going to STL down 0-2.
So hope I’m wrong and just being a negative Nancy.

Mistakes from Game 1 that shouldn’t be repeated in Game 2:

1. Snit used the only LHH on the bench in a low leverage situation, which forced Hech and Cervelli to bat against Gallegos in high leverage situations.

2. Snit sent Duvall to the plate against Webb in an obvious spot for him to be walked. That happened and the best bench bat didn’t get to impact the game. Some other RHH should have been brought in for Joyce, then Duvall for MAC.

3. Fried faced 3 batters, and one of them was Martinez...who crushes LHP. Snit set Shildt up to very easily get Martinez a PA vs a LHP, and he needs to do a better job making that tougher to happen.

Snit was pretty soundly out managed in Game 1, and in a game that ended up decided by 1 run that’s a problem.

DOB just posted this. Thoughts? Personally I think Teheran is best served to start game 4 and use Fried exclusively out of the pen in a multiple inning role.

Snitker on Teheran: "He's going to be in the bullpen right now. He could possibly be a Game 4 starter. Just like I say, he may have to fill a mid-game-type area...we know he could cover 2 or 3 innings. He's going to be available. Just depends on the flow of the game."

I feel like it’s my destiny as a Braves fan to endlessly repeat this scenario: a popular “players’ manager” type whose skill set is optimized towards effectively managing a group of people over 162 games gets absolutely rinsed when tactical decisions are magnified.

Apparently players will run through walls for Snit, but refuse to run out balls hit off the wall.

This “great leader of men” narrative is pretty dumb. The Braves are legit contenders, and contenders need intelligent leadership.

Good start.

Folty was filthy to Fowler there...hopefully a sign of things to come

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Originally Posted by Enscheff

Apparently players will run through walls for Snit, but refuse to run out balls hit off the wall.

This “great leader of men” narrative is pretty dumb. The Braves are legit contenders, and contenders need intelligent leadership.

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It's a shame Maddon is going back to the Angels. We could get intelligent leadership with the bonus of watching Chip Caray slowly go insane.

I'm guessing Acuna will bust it out of the box like it's an infield single on his lead off HR drive and pull up lame.

13 pitch 1st for Fo;ty, 10 strikes. Goldy had 2 hard hit fouls down LF line, and Edmond a hot liner to RF caught by a running Joyce toward line.

Porter behind the dish with "IFR" Holbrook at 1st.

So Acuna was safe at first?

Great hustle by Albies there. Then advances to 2b on the passed ball/wild pitch