NL East Race Watch

[sportsfan882]

Padres bail them out.  Bad base running

[PC]

Amazing how the Padres got out of that....or that the Braves are terrible.  Take your pick.

[Jordanz Meatballz]

The Braves are refusing to win through 11 1/2

[skippy1999]

I cannot believe they just got out of that   I thought the Padres deserved to lose after that atrocious base running but they've redeemed themselves

[PC]

Regardless of how this game ends, this was HORRIBLY managed game by Fredi.

He has his prized bull out there pitching two innings for a game on August 2nd against the San Diego Padres.  Kimbrel has never thrown this many pitches  in an outing and his stuff clearly gets a lot worse as he throws more pitches.

Why is Fredi so desperate to win this particular game of 162?

[PC]

Braves lose 3-2.  The Braves will be lucky to finish 4th in the NL East.

[sportsfan882]

Padres walkoff vs an exhausted Craig Kimbrel.

Some of the worst managing I've ever seen from Fredi Gonzalez. Is this the last week of the season? #Desperate

[skippy1999]

Regardless of how this game ends, this was HORRIBLY managed game by Fredi.

He has his prized bull out there pitching two innings for a game on August 2nd against the San Diego Padres.  Kimbrel has never thrown this many pitches  in an outing and his stuff clearly gets a lot worse as he throws more pitches.

Why is Fredi so desperate to win this particular game of 162?

Probably because they're in a serious funk right now but yea Kimbrel was dying out there this past inning, just awful, but we finally won on a night the Barves lost

[pazzo83]

2.5

[rileyn]

Braves lose 3-2.  The Braves will be lucky to finish 4th in the NL East.

This is insanity.  They are in a funk right now but going to LA to face the pitching they saw is something we have to do shortly as well.  I'm worried we will regret that we didn't put more distance between us and them when we had a chance.  Either way, we have 9 games remaining with Atlanta starting next weekend so that is likely to determine the division winner. 

[Matugi]

I just want to take a moment to say I freaking called this Braves collapse, while SF continually said the Nats would get dominated and the Braves would walk through the Dodgers and Padres.  And that Matt Williams should get fired.  Just saying.

[Slateman]

Don't blame Fredi. I blame Wren. He knows his pen is crap outside Kimbrel. Didn't make a move at the deadline. So what is Fredi supposed to do? He throws someone else out there, he loses.

But just proves my point that the Braves abuse their pitchers because they know they'll never sign them long term.

[blue911]

The Nats will never catch the Braves at this rate.

[houston-nat]

I just want to take a moment to say I freaking called this Braves collapse, while SF continually said the Nats would get dominated and the Braves would walk through the Dodgers and Padres.  And that Matt Williams should get fired.  Just saying.

Most of the reasonable people on this board believed we'd pull ahead eventually.

[PebbleBall]

I just want to take a moment to say I freaking called this Braves collapse, while SF continually said the Nats would get dominated and the Braves would walk through the Dodgers and Padres.  And that Matt Williams should get fired.  Just saying.

I think the Nats should win the division, but what on earth are you talking about? The Nats took a 2.5 game lead 8 games ago, both teams have gone 3-5 and the Nats have a 2.5 game lead again.  Woohoo?

[More of #34]

If our team was clicking on all cylinders, we should have a much bigger lead than we do......it's helpful the Braves keep losing to say the least.

[Copecwby20]

I live in North Carolina. I don't know any single Nats men.

I'm in Atlanta... I've driven farther for trim before... provided it was prime LMAO.

[Vega]

Don't blame Fredi. I blame Wren. He knows his pen is crap outside Kimbrel. Didn't make a move at the deadline.

James Russell says hi.

[Baseball is Life]

I just want to take a moment to say I freaking called this Braves collapse, while SF continually said the Nats would get dominated and the Braves would walk through the Dodgers and Padres.  And that Matt Williams should get fired.  Just saying.

Patting yourself on the back is a popular pastime on this board but you should do it when you're actually right. Just saying.

[mitlen]

I just want to take a moment to say I freaking called this Braves collapse, while SF continually said the Nats would get dominated and the Braves would walk through the Dodgers and Padres.  And that Matt Williams should get fired.  Just saying.

Patting yourself on the back is a popular pastime on this board but you should do it when you're actually right. Just saying.

Absolutely agree.    Matugi's comment should have been posted in the "Sunshine Squad 2014" thread.   

[Baseball is Life]

Absolutely agree.    Matugi's comment should have been posted in the "Sunshine Squad 2014" thread.   

Yep. The burial is still to come.

[Optics]

Dads up 1-0 early.

[pazzo83]

Dads up 1-0 early.

Off an RBI single from....  the pitcher.   

[welch]

(1) Interesting that Kimbrel is a one-inning pitcher
(2) I assume FGon(e) feels pressured by the Nats to win every game.

The Nats have the pitching to keep pressing. If Cabrera hits; when LaRoche hits again; as long as Werth holds together (looks like he's hurting but playing on); if Harper breaks out; if the McLouth roster spot becomes useful (maybe by becomming Souza?)...in general, if the Nats hit, they have a chance.

(Note the caution. I'm talking about the Nats. In almost 20 years of rooting for the old and expansion Nats I never saw a team compete for a pennant. About half-way through '61, the first season of the "New Senators", my dad said something like, "If the pitching holds up..." I thought it was weird, as if the Nats were forever stamped as a second division team, as in "Damn Yankees", but he remembered 1933.)

[sportsfan882]

Padres self destructing. Thanks for nothing dbags