All ten-game road trips will come with their struggles, but any trip to the West Coast seems to supply its own brand of difficulty for the Braves. The team has struggled mightily out West for the past several years, so the remaining seven games on this trip carry a sense of impending doom.
The good news is, the Braves have already started this road trip on the right foot, sweeping the lowly Marlins in Miami and pulling to within 1½ games of first place in the NL East. Now, the Western half of the trip begins, and the Braves will see if they can reverse their ill-fated trend.