Atlanta Braves: Nine Game Road Trip Begins in San Francisco
By W. M. Lawson
Coming out of a nine game home stand, and a bizarre record of 5-4, the Atlanta Braves kick off a nine game road trip tonight in San Francisco. There should be fireworks.
After having spent a majority of the 2017 season on the road, the Atlanta Braves just wrapped up a nine game home stand. The longest of the season, thus far. On paper, the resulting 5-4 record doesn’t seem like something to crow about. When considering what happened to Freddie Freeman, 5-4 doesn’t look all that bad. When considering they lost the last two very winnable games, which would’ve given a home stand record of 7-2, one wants to look away.
Now the scheduling gods have decided to send our fearless Braves into the great wide open again for another nine game road trip. Three 3 game series against San Francisco, The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (the dumbest name in baseball with the sickest player), and the Cincinnati Reds, come at a pivotal time.
Especially, this series with San Francisco. The Giants had reeled off 8 wins out of 10 before dropping their last three to the Cubs. Both clubs come into this series trying to right the ship, as it were. Both clubs come into this series still trying to figure out who their team is in many ways.
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Matt Cain is on the bump for San Francisco in Game One. In nine starts, Cain is 3-2 with a 4.91 ERA. In his last start he went 5.1 innings and gave up seven runs on nine hits. Not great.
Jaime Garcia is on the rubber for our beloved Atlanta Braves. Garcia has been a bit of an enigma this year. In eight starts, Garcia is 1-3 with a 4.07 ERA. Not great. His last start, however, against the division leading Washington Nationals, he was lights out, throwing eight innings, with one earned run, seven hits, no walks, and eight strikeouts. In short, he was brilliant.
With both pitchers still trying to find the zone, and both teams still trying to find their personality and identity, respectively, look for some fireworks tonight in “The City by the Bay”.