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Brewers bring Braves to rock bottom in 10-0 beatdown
Well, there’s no point in really running down this game in the typical recap fashion since nothing exciting really happened for the Atlanta Braves in this one. Right after the Braves got smoked by the Marlins to end their weekend series in a disappointing split, the Braves got absolutely pulverized by the Milwaukee Brewers to the tune of 10-0 — on OutKast Night, no less!
Considering Atlanta’s abysmal record this season when the opposition scores at least four runs (they are now 7-43 in such games. Seven and forty-three!), you could genuinely make the argument that this game was over by the second innings. That when the Brewers added on a run with an RBI single from Joey Ortiz to make it 4-0 Milwaukee. It was absolutely over once Bryce Elder was done — the Brewers indeed got their revenge for what happened when he saw them in Milwaukee and they tagged him for seven runs over 3.2 innings.
That included eight hits, two homers (from Willy Adames by himself) and two walks. Hey, at least he racked up six strikeouts while he was out there! That was the only positive that he could take away from this one. Still, Willy Adames had a great day against Elder the last time he saw him and he outdid himself this time.
If you want highlights of the Braves hitting the baseball against the Brewers at Truist Park, go watch Freddie Freeman’s home run from Game 4 of the NLDS because you aren’t going to find any action on Atlanta’s part in this one. I’ll even provide a link for you and embed the video! Hooray Braves!
The only drama left in this game once the Braves eventually went down 9-0 in the sixth inning was whether or not the Braves would break their shutout streak. Atlanta went into this game having failed to score a run since the third inning on Saturday and while the Braves gave it the ol’ college try and racked up six hits, they went 0-for-6 with RISP and left six men on base on their way to getting shut out for the seventh time this season and for the second game in a row.
As Scott Coleman mentioned over on X Twitter, this wasn’t exactly Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz that the Braves have been dealing with during this shutout streak.
The Braves have not scored a run in 19 innings. These are the pitchers they’ve faced in that time
Jesus Tinoco, Declan Cronin, Anthony Bender, Andrew Nardi, Calvin Faucher, Edward Cabrera, Emmanuel Ramirez, George Soriano, Collin Rea
Outscored 17-0 since their last run
— Scott Coleman (@scottcoleman55) August 7, 2024
After the game ended 10-0, you can update that Tweet with Joe Ross’ name and run it up to 24 innings — the longest scoreless streak the Braves have had in 10 years. It’s the first time they’ve been shutout in consecutive nine-inning games since 2014, which is when the Phillies managed to keep them off the scoreboard for that long.
With all due respect to each one of those big league pitchers, not being able to scratch a run past any of those guys is embarrassing. The worst part is that this complete outage of offense has come at a time where the NL Wild Card race is tightening up and getting to the point where the Braves could be on the outside looking in if this keeps up for much longer. While I think we all expected that there would be a bit of a downturn with all of the injuries, I can’t say that any of us expected Atlanta to look so feeble at the plate at any point this season.
Well, maybe some of y’all are used to it by now (again, seven and forty-three!) but it’s still been extremely rough to watch lately. As usual when it comes to baseball, the good news is that we can all forget about this if the Braves break out tomorrow and put a bunch of runs on the board on their way to winning and breaking out of this nightmarish slump. With that being said, I will give one (1) gold star to Luke Williams for pitching a scoreless inning in the ninth inning. Great job, man! Way to shut ’em down!
Other than that, all you can do is file this game directly into the garbage can, forget about it as soon as possible and move on to tomorrow’s game at 7:20 P.M. E.T. I might be tempting the baseball gods by saying this but surely things can’t get much worse than this, right? Right?
On a sad day overall for Braves Country, due to the passing of the legendary Bobby Cox, Spencer Strider gave Atlanta fans something to be happy and hopeful about with a stellar outing, shutting down the Dodgers potent offense for 6.0 innings with 8 strikeouts and 15 whiffs. He looked as good as he has in a long time. His fastball averaged 96.4 MPH, with 17 inches of induced vertical break and he had four pitches working nicely together. Even if Strider doesn’t quite return to his Jacob deGrom levels of dominance, having him as a true #1 or #2 quality starter would make a huge difference for this Braves team to pair with Chris Sale. Bryce Elder has been great this season, but shouldn’t be the second best starter in the rotation of a World Series contender. If Strider can keep something like Saturday night’s version of himself moving forward, that’s a huge development for him and this team.
The highly anticipated NBA Draft is finally going to take place tomorrow and the Atlanta Hawks are 1 of 14 teams hoping the ping pong balls bounce their way.
This is going to be the final payoff for what was arguably the best move that any team made last offseason. Atlanta traded down from the No. 13 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft and acquired the unprotected 2026 first-round pick from the New Orleans Pelicans, the most favorable of the Pelicans’ and Bucks’ selections. The Pelicans finished 7th in the lottery odds, and Milwaukee is 10th. Based on the odds, the Hawks have a 40% chance of jumping into the top four.
The last time the Hawks were in the lottery, they jumped from 10th to 1st and selected Zaccharie Risacher. While that was a huge stroke of luck, it has not always worked out that way for the Hawks.
Hawks lottery history
The Hawks have been in the NBA Lottery 16 times since 1985 and in that time span, the Hawks have:
- Moved up five times (2024-moved from 10th to 1st, 2018-moved from 4th to 3rd, 2007- moved from 4th to 3rd, 2001- moved from 5th to 3rd, and 1985- moved from 7th to 5th)
- Moved down five times (2020- moved from 4th to 6th, 2019- moved from 5th to 8th, 2006- moved from 4th to 5th, 2005- moved from 1st to 2nd, and 2000- moved from 5th to 6th)
- Stayed where they were projected to six times
Their biggest move up by far came in 2024 when the moved up to No. 1 and were able to select Risacher, which has not quite panned out.
There is an element of what if to each of these scenarios, especially the years the Hawks moved down. In 2020, they moved down in a draft that contained Anthony Edwards, who is from the state of Georgia and one of the elite players that the league has right now. Atlanta ended up selecting Onyeka Okongwu, but there is a big what if about being able to pair Edwards with Trae Young.
In 2019, the Hawks were 5th in the highly anticipated 2019 lottery that featured Zion Williamson, but they fell three spots. While WIlliamson has not had quite the career most had hoped, he is still an All-NBA caliber player and would have paired nicely with Young as a tandem.
There have been some hits and misses during the 16 times that the Hawks have been in the lottery, but there have seemingly been more missed opportunities, even when they jump up in the standings. They are hoping that they get another stroke of luck tomorrow in what could be a franchise altering day for the Hawks.
Final projected odds for the Hawks:
No. 1- 9.8% chance
No. 2- 9.9% chance
No. 3- 10.1% chance
No. 4- 10.30% chance
No. 7- 19.75% chance
No. 8- 30.18% chance
No. 9- 9.19% chance
No. 10- 0.67% chance
No. 11-
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