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.

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?