ATLANTA — For a franchise that’s won exactly one ring in the half-century since it moved to Atlanta, the Braves tote an awful lot of ghosts. There’s an entire museum in SunTrust Park dedicated in large part to the Braves’ decade-and-a-half run of playoff participation that started back in 1991. Ghostly images of Smoltz and Glavine and Maddux and Justice play on television screens and loom on hanging banners around the park, a perpetual reminder of how Atlanta didn’t realize just how good the good times were even as they were happening.
The Braves haven’t won a postseason series since 2001.