To fill some of the gap resulting from a lack of Braves baseball this week, I wanted to do a small retrospective on the craziest games from the 2023 season. But, as I started pulling together the data for that exercise, I realized a few things: first, most of the team’s crazy games came before the offense really took off in June, or after they clinched and stopped organizing their lineup and pitching to win games; and, second, a lot of the games we think of as crazy (like the series in Cincinnati with the Reds) often had tension-less dead time and weren’t really a rough-and-tumble back-and-forth the whole way through.
A reminiscence: Two relevant Braves’ games from May 2023
