You know, for whatever reason, the Braves haven’t been big fans of July lately. The last time they had a winning July was 2013. They really doubled down on their poor performance during the calendar’s seventh month this year, though — with their first losing month of the season, and their worst since August of last year.
The real killer, though, was that July was a chance for this upstart Braves team to make some waves. I noted at the beginning of the month that pretty much every series during July was with a contender, and the Braves just utterly fell on their face during this entire stretch.