Any optimism and excitement that you, I, any other Braves fan and even any neutral fan had when it came to Game 5 of the NLDS between the Braves and the Cardinals was completely evaporated by the end of the first inning. That was when the Braves gave up 10 runs in one inning and effectively lost the deciding game of what had been a hard-fought series up until that inning.
You can easily argue that the Braves shouldn’t have even been in this position to begin with. Had they cashed in any of the many scoring chances that they had while they were leading Game 4 in St.