In total, the Atlanta Braves have split their weather-reduced 2-game series with the Nationals. But this Sunday afternoon game was genuinely annoying on so many levels.
It’s as if the Strat-O-Matic dice were loaded in the favor of the Nationals throughout.
Let me enumerate the things that should have benefited the Braves:
- Max Scherzer starts, but ‘only’ goes 6 innings – throwing 107 pitches in the process
- Scherzer gives up 8 hits and walks another batter in the process
- Braves manage 14 hits in the game – with their bullpen giving up 6 in just 3 innings
- Atlanta gets 3 hits apiece from the first 2 batters in the order, plus 3 from Inciarte
- Atlanta steals 2 bases… well – it was really three, but we’ll get to that.