The Braves are currently embarking on what figures to be a crucial West Coast road trip and it all starts tonight with the first game in a two-game series against the Oakland Athletics.
The obvious storyline for tonight’s game (outside of Atlanta’s relentless pursuit of first place in the National League East) is the return of Matt Olson to Oakland. We’re probably not going to see a ton of the pomp and circumstance that usually happens whenever a player returns to his old stomping grounds (or in the case of Oakland, The Stomping Ground) but also here’s hoping that Olson can do some big hitting in the Coliseum like he did for the handful of seasons that he played there.