Atlanta Braves Head To STP For Some Home Cookin’
By W. M. Lawson
The Atlanta Braves (8-6) begin a week long home stand Monday. After the recent weather and meltdown on that road trip, it comes at a good time.
In mid-April, this season has already looked a lot different that what preseason conventional wisdom would’ve told you. Well, mostly. Right in the middle of current Divisional standings, there’s been good and bad, but, mostly good. Preston Tucker and Ryan Flaherty? Swanson and Albies? All surprisingly good. The back-end of the Pitching staff? Not so much. But all-in-all, after a lengthy road trip that featured tough opponents and terrible weather, the Atlanta Braves head home for a week, and it comes at a needed time.
To this point, the Braves have only lost one series on the year. On Opening Day, most Braves’ fans would’ve taken it. They looked good at home to open the season, then took to the road and played against three very good ball clubs.
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Was it a great trip? Uh, no. You can’t do what they did in that last game in Chicago and call it great. (Thankfully, I couldn’t watch it. I’m traveling and am outside of “Braves Country”. Thanks, TBS.) I still can’t decide if that aforementioned shoddy weather that canceled the rubber match in the Cubs series was a good thing or a bad thing. There can be two schools of thought on that.
Now, though, they go to the not-so-comfortable confines of SunTrust Park, with its wind tunnels and 300 foot fences, to play three with the Phillies and four with the Mets. It’s possible that the “Wreck at Wrigley” on Saturday will fire the team up. We’ll see.
It better had. How the Atlanta Braves play Philadelphia and New York, especially early in the season, will go a long way to determining what, if any, success there is to be had.
A good week at home, with a couple of series’ wins against Divisional rivals, both of which are currently ahead in the standings, would be the mouth wash needed to rinse that Limburger cheese crap sandwich we just ate on Saturday.