Even if there were still such things as pennant races, the 2015 Braves wouldn’t be in one. They awoke on Labor Day having won once in three weeks. (Here we note that the Braves play baseball – if we can deem what they’ve been doing as actually playing – where there’s a game most every day.)
We’ve seen lousy Braves teams before. The 1988 edition started 0-10 and finished 54-106. The 1977 club lost 17 in a row, Loss No. 17 being skippered by Ted Turner, who’d just bought the team and who told manager Dave Bristol to take two weeks off.