I love doing the monthly recaps, but doing the September ones for the past two seasons has felt weird. After all, I’m writing these words on the eve of the Braves starting a playoff series, and the focus is on the future, not on what happened over the past month. Yet, like the Braves in September, the monthly recaps will roll on.
The Braves clinched their second consecutive division title in September, and they kept the pedal floored as they did so. While the team’s overall September record was a pretty pedestrian 14-11 (their second-worst month aside from the March/April combination), the reality is that the team blazed a 12-6 warpath up through their clinching victory, and then ambled to a 2-5 finish thereafter.