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Braves News: Magic Number is 1, Dansby Swanson and Matt Olson Heroics, more
Extra October Magic in Braves Nation.
With a 5-3 win over the Mets on Sunday, the Braves are one win, or one Mets loss, away from a fifth straight NL East division title and a first-round by within the NL playoffs.
Much more satisfying is that the Braves earned the collection sweep over the weekend by merely being the higher staff. In each side of the game- beginning pitching, hitting, the bullpen-the Braves have been the superior squad. Rasiel Iglesias and Kenley Jansen working an inning in three straight video games reveals they’re prepared for the postseason. The Braves beginning workers as soon as once more proved it may possibly matchup towards every other rotation within the majors.
Nonetheless, the 2 finest performances of the collection got here from the bats of Dansby Swanson and Matt Olson. Simply the second pair of Braves teammates to every hit a house run in every recreation of a 3 recreation collection in franchise historical past, Swanson and Olson couldn’t have picked a greater time to be at their finest. For Olson particularly, who has hit a house run in 4 straight video games, breaking out of a September stoop needed to really feel spectacular.
Whereas the job is just not performed for the Braves, what a enjoyable and unimaginable weekend of baseball it was at Truist Park.