This is just about survival right now.
The Braves beat the Cubs 5-2 at Wrigley Field on Friday afternoon to climb to 6-8 on the season, but the injury bug kept gnawing away at Brian Snitker’s ballclub. Today the baseball gods spun the Wheel of Injuries twice, giving Ender Inciarte a hamstring problem while he was running the bases in the fourth and hitting Ozzie Albies with a pitch on the knee in the ninth.
Inciarte and Albies join a worryingly long list of injuries that already includes Max Fried, Cristian Pache, Drew Smyly, Chris Martin and Mike Soroka.