GDT: #77 2:10 EST (Minor) Braves @ (Cosart) Stros'.

This team needs a major overhaul in their lineup IMO. We need more players in this lineup that can hit for average. The high risk, high reward guys are never going to get it done IMO.
 
Is it just me or does it seem pretty typical of this team, during a road series, to win the first two games then go out in the third game and completely lay down and play like ****? I'm sure that's not exclusive to the Braves, but I didn't even have to pay attention to or watch the game today to tell you we'd likely score 0-2 runs and lose.
 
I predicted before this road trip started that they would win 2 games in each city and go 6-5 on the 11 game trip. If they win 2 in Philly that is exactly what's going to happen.

Everyone should just remember that a 6-5 road trip isn't exactly the end of the world.
 
6-5 road trip is definitely not the "end of the world," but for ****'s sake, people, look at who we are playing. One good team (Washington) and two bad, last-place teams (Houston and Philly). Even if you consider a split in Washington is to be expected, we should do better than 4-3 against Houston and Philly if we expect to accomplish anything this year. Especially, when we're now trailing Washington and squandered a chance to create some separation in this division when we were still relatively healthy and they weren't.

Instead, we've continued to suck or just be OK against a lot of bad teams.

1-2 against Arizona, a last place team.
0-4 against Boston, a fourth-place team, seven games under .500.
3-3 against the Mets, a fourth-place team.
2-4 against the Phillies, last place team, thanks to a sweep at home.

Yeah, we're 5-4 against an improved Marlins team that still isn't that great and is now without its ace.

Thank God, we've owned the Nationals (7-3) and Brewers (5-2), or we'd be in even worse shape. Then again, that last series against the Nats, we were up 2-0 and should have been able to at least win 3 of 4. But we **** it away, let them back in first place and killed a lot of the momentum we had generated against them.

Final 17 games before the break are against the Phillies (4), Mets (7), Diamondbacks (3) and Cubs (3). There's no excuse for us not to go at least 11-6, and we really should do even better than that.

Put up or shut up.
 
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