Well what can I say about game except where in the world was the offense? The offense aside from Chipper Jones, Jeff Francoeur, and Gregor Blanco went a collective 1-25 (.040).Yikes!
The thing that really bugs me about these loses are that it’s not like the Braves don’t have chances to score. Trust me they’ve had plenty of opportunities to bust these games wide open.
The Braves left a combined 21 runners on base (compared to the Pirates 14) in the 1st game. If you’re thinking to yourself wow that’s a lot you are correct that’s a ton!! This is one of the reasons why the Braves are not winning on the road and why they’re not winning the one run games. Simply because the Braves cannot capitalize on the opportunities they have. For example Ian Snell walked 6 on Friday and was practically giving the Braves chances to bust the game open but again not being able to bunt or play fundamental baseball came back and killed the Braves with their 10TH one run lose. Yeah Chipper Jones and Jeff Francoeur had good games. Chipper went 3-4 with a double and Francoeur went 2-5 and he might be finally showing signs of coming out of the slump that he’s in. Gregor also went 2-2 with 2 walks. Aside from that it was much of nothing.
On to a brighter note (but not too bright). Jair Jurrjens pitched a decent game going 5 innings with 3 hits, 3 runs (all earned), 3 walks, and 5 strikeouts. JJ ran into his trouble in the 5th when he gave up all of his runs. Bobby Cox and the gang must. On to the 8th Acosta got roughed up for a 2 run homer by former Brave great Adam Laroche. Not have like what they saw from JJ because was lifted after only throwing 69 pitches. Or they might be watching the young hurler’s innings. Bennett came in and replaced JJ going 2 innings, not hits or runs, with a strikeout, but he did have 3 walks. That’s a little scary. Acosta’s final line was 1 inning, 2 hits, 2 runs (all earned), and 1 strikeout. Braves lose again to the Pirates 5-0.
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